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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Prisoners on agenda at Arab League meet

Ma'an
The Arab League met in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the plight of Palestinian prisoners.

Delegates were expected to discuss allegations of mistreatment toward 33 specific women, including torture and forced confessions.

...stressed that the international community should seek curbs on imprisoning minors, as well as efforts to end to administrative detention, a term that refers to Israel's policy of detaining Palestinians for up to six months at a time without charge. [This is commonly repeated, so that prisoners often are held for years without any charges being filed against them.]

... memorandum on the 355 children jailed in Israeli prisons, as well as allegations that Israel was trafficking prisoners' organs. Full story

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