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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Jericho hosts international conference on prisoners

Ma'an
The International Conference on Palestinian Prisoners began in Jericho on Tuesday, attended by delegations representing local and international human rights organizations.

...Fayyad highlighted that, "The death of over 200 detainees inside Israeli prisons as a result of medical negligence, torture or deliberate killing, or as a result of beatings or injury from live bullets, calls for the need to investigate the causes and to put an end to Israeli inhumane and oppressive practices, mainly by allowing specialized and neutral medical committees to take responsibility for providing proper medical care for sick detainees.” Full story
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