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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Israel puts Palestinian political leaders back in solitary confinement

Ma’an - Israel's prison service sent the secretary-general of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine back into solitary confinement on Friday evening, along with a Palestinian lawmaker elected in 2006 with Hamas.

Prisoners Affairs activist Muyassar Atiyani said that she had been informed of the news by other prisoners, who said that Hamas' Jamal Abu Al-Hayja and the PFLP's Ahmad Sa’adat were being punished for starting a partial hunger strike three weeks earlier.

… A statement from the PFLP on 9 January said the two were protesting their treatment by Israeli prison guards. Supporters say the men have been frequently placed in solitary confinement for long durations throughout their terms in prison. Read more
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