Today, 23 June 1013, the head of Addameer's documentation unit, Mrs. Ehteram Ghazawneh, will give testimony to the United Nations Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the territories occupied since 1967. The Special Committee is meeting in Jordan and Mrs. Ghazawneh will detail the on-going violations against the almost 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners currently being held by Israel. Violations to be raised include medical neglect, torture, administrative detention, prison conditions, violations against children, as well as the on-going hunger strikes.
This is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited. The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.
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