| [ 07/04/2011 – 11:34 AM ] |
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GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails go on hunger strike on Thursday to protest the continued Israeli repressive measures against them including medical neglect and solitary confinement. Sources following up the prisoners’ issue told the PIC that the prisoners were also protesting the humiliating treatment of their relatives heading to visit them. The sources said that the precautionary strike is also in solidarity with prisoner Akram Mansour, the third oldest serving Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who spent more than 30 years in captivity. He was set to conclude his term in three years time but the Israeli courts added a life sentence to his older verdict, they noted. He was convicted back in 1979 of killing an Israeli soldier and taking his weapon. |