[Pnews] 60 Palestinian Hunger Strikers In Beersheba Prison Held In Solitary Confinement

[Prisoner News]

  60 Hunger Strikers In Beersheba Prison Held In Solitary Confinement

author Wednesday June 04, 2014 06:37author by Chris Carlson
http://www.imemc.org/article/68008

    The Palestinian Prisoners' Society has issued a statement confirming
    that 60 people being held in Beersheba Prison, in Eshel, are
    currently engaged in continuous hunger strike, and that each of them
    are being held in solitary confinement.

According to Ma'an News Agency, the prisoners are among hundreds who are 
now refusing meals in act of solidarity with administrative detainees 
who have been on hunger strike for 41 days.

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the 
strikers "represent the most selfless struggle for justice and freedom 
in Palestine and that the ongoing hunger strike exposes "the cruelty and 
illegality of the ongoing illegal occupation, particularly in relation 
to the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails."

Ashrawi has called on the international community to pressure Israel in 
meeting the strikers' demands, Ma'an further reports:

"The deafening silence from the international media and some official 
circles regarding the hundreds of Palestinian prisoner hunger strikers 
is inexcusable," she said.

"We call on all states, members of the press, and people of conscience 
to pressure Israel to drop its cruel and illegal use of the colonial 
practice of administrative detention and other administrative punitive 
measures and form an independent international commission of inquiry to 
investigate the severe and illegal violations committed by the IPS 
(Israeli Prison Service)."

Furthermore, Palestinian human rights organization Addameer 
<http://imemc.org/article/68006> has estimated that somewhere around 183 
Palestinians are currently being held under administrative detention 
conditions, without charge or trial.

Over 800,000 Palestinians have been detained since 1967 
<http://imemc.org/article/67566>, with 5,224 currently being held in 
Israeli prisons, by the PLO's calculations.

A spokesman for IPS could not be immediately reached for comment.

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