Abu Sisi the only remaining Palestinian prisoner in solitary confinement

[ PIC 23/07/2013 – 12:05 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights has called on human rights groups and international organizations to intervene and demand the release of Dirar Abu Sisi from isolation in Israeli jails. Fuad Al-Khuffash, director of the center, said on Tuesday that after the Israeli occupation […]

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#PalHunger | Beersheba jailers put Sheikh Abul Heija in solitary confinement

[ PIC 08/12/2012 – 09:20 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli administration of Beersheba prison isolated noted Hamas figure Sheikh Jamal Abul Heija after he delivered the Friday Khutba (sermon) and talked about Hamas and the victory it had made in the last war. His family told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Sheikh Abul […]

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#StopAD | Dirar Abu Sisi demands his release from Israeli solitary confinement

[ PIC 08/10/2012 – 09:59 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Isolated captive Dirar Abu Sisi, deputy head of Gaza Power Plant, appealed to all officials to work on releasing him from solitary confinement, especially after the deterioration of his health. This came in a message from Abu Sisi delivered by ex-prisoner Naseem Muslim, who was released […]

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#PalHunger | Saadat: the occupation did not commit to the agreement signed with prisoners

[ PIC 25/09/2012 – 12:18 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Secretary-General of Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmed Saadat, denounced the continuation of Israeli prison administration’s policy of procrastination in implementing terms of the agreement officially signed under auspices of Egypt following the mass hunger strike waged by the captive movement last April. Saadat, […]

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Gaza engineer kidnapped from Ukraine goes on #PalHunger strike over solitary confinement ~ by @jncatron

Joe Catron | The Electronic Intifada | Gaza Strip | 14 September 2012 Dirar Abu Sisi’s lawyer maintains that Israeli agencies applied illegal methods of interrogation. (Tsafrir Abayov / AFP/Newscom) Dirar Abu Sisi, the 43-year-old deputy engineer of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, went on a one-day hunger strike Thursday to protest […]

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‘Security’ no excuse for holding adolescents in solitary confinement

JFJFP FEBRUARY 28 2012 use of solitary confinement for children Defence for Children International 27.02.12 On 30 January 2012, over 100 prominent professionals, clergy, educators, physicians, academics and artists from the U.S. and Israel sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior officials raising their concerns about the continued use of solitary confinement […]

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Prisoner’s family ‘to file suit’ against Israel over isolation

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Maan News Agency | October 28, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The family of a released Palestinian prisoner is seeking to file a lawsuit against the Israeli prison administration after he became mentally unstable after 12 years of isolation in jail. […]

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