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Nafha detainees society visits a number of detainees in Israeli prisons

author Wednesday July 11, 2007 00:46author by IMEMC Staff Report this post to the editors

The Nafha Society, which is active in the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, visited recently dozens of detainees held by Israel is several prisons, detention and interrogation centers .

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Lawyers of the Society also managed to visit some of the kidnapped Palestinian legislators and officials.

The society stated that its lawyers also visited legislator Hamid Al Betwai, Dr, Hatim Jarrar, head of Jenin municipality, legislator Yasser Mansour, and legislator Hosny Al Boureeny. They all suffer from chronic diseases and need medical attention.

The lawyers also visited at least 32 detainees from the West Bank who are imprisoned in Al Jalama Israeli prison and Huwwara detention facility.

Huwwara detention facility is one of the worst Israeli prisons where Israeli prison authorities continuously carried collective punishment against the detainees and barred them from having regular showers in addition to repeatedly attacking the detainees and humiliating them.

Mohammad Bsharat, head of the Nafha Society, appealed all international human rights groups to intervene and stop the Israeli violations and illegal practices against the detainees, especially the policies of medical neglect, and demanded Israel to release all sick detainees especially 260 detainees who are in very critical conditions and not receiving the needed medical attention and treatment.

Since 1967, at least 182 dies of torture or medical neglect in Israeli prisons,

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