The Palestine Prisoners´ Center: An increasing concern for the lives of 28 prisoners who spent more than a quarter of a century in captivity

The Palestine Prisoners´ Center: An increasing concern for the lives of 28 prisoners who spent more than a quarter of a century in captivity

• 2020-03-31 21:22:34
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The Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center affirmed that there is a growing concern and a real fear for the lives of 28 prisoners who have spent more than a quarter of a century (25 years) in occupation prisons and are still behind bars, calling for their unconditional release.

The media spokesman of the center, the researcher Riyad Al-Ashqar, said in a press statement today, Tuesday: "These old prisoners are more at risk than others in light of the spread of the Corona virus, because they are old, and they spent many years inside prisons, which affected the health status of them and most of them suffer from various diseases." Their immunity is weak, which poses a real threat to their lives. "

Al-Ashqar demanded the necessity of releasing these prisoners under the exceptional circumstances that the world lives in, fearing for their lives in the event that the Corona virus reached the prisons of the occupation, especially since there was a previous agreement to release them that took place 7 years ago between the authority and the occupation to release all the old prisoners, where he launched the occupation Release 3 batches, and release the fourth batch.

He pointed out that at least 26 of these prisoners were supposed to be released in 2013 on the basis of an agreement to release (104) old prisoners, of whom 74 were freed, while 30 prisoners were freed from them 3 after they spent 22 years in the occupation prisons.

Al-Ashqar clarified that at least 26 of these prisoners were supposed to be released 7 years ago, based on an agreement between the authority and the occupation to release all the old people, as the occupation released 78 of them, and stopped the release of the fourth batch of 30 prisoners freed of them 3 Prisoners after they spent 22 years in the occupation prisons, while last year, prisoner Fares Baroud was martyred after 28 years in captivity.

Al-Ashqar added that the majority of these prisoners are detainees before the Oslo agreement, and they all spent more than 25 years in the prisons of the occupation, including 12 prisoners from the residents of the occupied areas in 1948, led by the Dean of the Prisoners, all of the captive. "Karim Yusef Younis, who has been detained since 1983, and the prisoner Maher Abdul Latif Younis, who was arrested in the same year.

He called on the prisoners of Palestine institutions concerned with the affairs of the prisoners and the various media to give them more space and attention, in a way that contributes to their support and shed light on their cause and highlight their suffering, especially in these exceptional circumstances.