March 8, PALESTINE FREEDOM ' FOR
36 women political prisoners remain locked up in prisons and detention centers in Israel, victims of physical abuse, verbal and psychological. Some of them used in an instrumental way to stop husbands, sons, brothers. The appeal of the NGO Addameer.
Ramallah, March 8, 2011, Nena News - According to data released by Addameer, the Palestinian NGO Established in 1992 in support of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners, about 10,000 Palestinian women were arrested and detained since 1967, subject to military orders , applied by Israel to Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.
As of February 1, 2011, 36 women are still locked up in prisons and detention centers Israelis, in structures beyond the territories occupied in 1967, and in open violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Three of them then they are in administrative detention.
The majority of them - as is the case for male political prisoners - are victims of physical abuse, verbal and psychological abuse during arrest, detention and interrogation, including beatings, threats, body searches.
According to data provided by Addameer, the female prisoners are detained in Israeli prisons and Hasharon-Neve Tertza Telmond, where they remain in detention in the same section or in the same cell with Israeli women accused of crimes very as serious as murder.
addition, Israeli prisons lack a gender approach: Palestinian women find themselves in overcrowded cells, deprived of the most basic hygiene and health care, without the possibility of visits to specialists, to receive visits from family members to access education system.
Many of them eventually are arrested or subjected to interrogation in an instrumental way, to put pressure on their husbands, brothers, sons. Especially in the case of minors. He had already highlighted the NGO B'Tselem, in some cases of children arrested in East Jerusalem, are also followed measures of intimidation against their mothers, as in the case of Nabil, 12 and a half years, the neighborhood of Silwan, stopped 17 October 2010 and released the same day under house arrest, four days after his mother was summoned and interrogated by the Israeli Ministry of Welfare to determine its "negligence" to the child.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the NGO Addameer relaunched an appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners and calls on Palestinians to sign the petition online at the following link:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6 / free-Palestinian-women-political-prisoners /
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