Report: Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

Newsletter December 2010

There are, at present, 39 women political prisoners in the Israeli jails: 22 in Hasharon Prison (Tel Mond), 16 in Damoon Prison (Carmel Mountain), 1 in Neve Tirza Prison (Ramle).

Hasharon Prison (Tel Mond)

Family visits

Sanabel Breek, 22 years old, from Nablus, was arrested on 22 September 2008. The Israeli authorities prohibit her parents from visiting in prison, and her brothers are too young to travel alone.

Health care

Kahera elSa'adi, from Jenin Refugee Camp, was arrested on 30 May 2002. At the beginning of November 2010, the prison authorities prohibited a private dentist who was sent by Yusef elSadeq Association (prisoners support association) from treating her. The treatment was planned and had been coordinated with the prison authorities. WOFPP's lawyer, Taghreed Jahashan, sent the prison authorities a detailed letter about the prisoners' right to be treated by private doctors. At the end of November 2010, Kahera elSa'adi was allowed to be treated by the dentist.

Women under administrative detention

Hanaa Shalabi, from Burqin, Jenin district, an administrative detainee, was arrested on 14 September 2009. In October 2010, the military court rejected her appeal against the administrative detention.

A day before the session in court, she was transferred to a separation cell in Neve Tirza Prison, and after the session in court, the prison authorities kept holding her in the same cell. After three days she went on a hunger strike, and two days later she was transferred back to a wing with other women political prisoners in Hasharon Prison. Read more