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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Report: Female Palestinian detainees suffer neglect

Ma'an
Palestinian women serving time in Israel's prisons are suffering from medical neglect, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a report released Monday.

... lawyers and workers with the prison discovered 17 female detainees at Israel's Ash-Sharon and Ad-Damon prison facilities were being kept in sub-standard consitions and that all had been denied medical treatment for persisting conditions.

...a female prisoner from the Gaza Strip detained in 2005... has been kept in an isolated cell for months.

Five of the 17 are serving life sentences, while 12 others are being held under administrative detention and remain neither charged or sentenced.... Full story
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