Family demands the release of her underage detained son

Tuesday August 14, 2007 01:34 by IMEMC News

The family of detainee Mohammad Al Jada’, from Borqeen near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demanded the release of their 17-year old son imprisoned by Israel since several months after the Israeli army broke into their home and abducted him.

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The family stated that two other brothers of Mohammad are also detained by Israel for membership in the Islamic Jihad movement.

Lawyer Ahmad Shawahna, who is active in the issue of the detainees’ rights, stated that Ashraf, the brother of Mohammad, was kidnapped by the army four years ago, and that he was only 18 years old.

The army claims that Ashraf planned to carry a suicide bombing in Israel. He was sentenced to eight years and was severely tortured which caused a fracture in his jaw, and that he currently needs medical intervention but deprived from his medication rights.

The second brother, Nasser, born in 1988, was arrested pm June 1 2007 as he was trying to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage.

He was not sentenced, and is still under interrogation for “resisting the occupation”, and membership with the Islamic Jihad.

It is worth mentioning that Mohammad was in the eleventh grade at an industrial school.

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