RAMALLAH, February 9, 2011 (WAFA) - The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights Huryyat Wednesday launched a nationwide campaign to help release a prisoner who had served over 30 years in jail and end the suffering of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

Huryyat held several meetings with international humanitarian organizations and civil rights and civil society movements to discuss the constant suffering of Palestinian prisoners who are subjected to severe medical negligence affecting their physical and mental health and violate their rights as human beings.

Huryyat demanded the Israeli government to allow international committees of inquiry into the prisons to see firsthand the horrible conditions in which prisoners live.

Number of sick prisoners is in the hundreds, including 160 cases of kidney failure and many types of cancer.

Huryyat urged international organizations, which included the Red Cross and Amnesty International, to pressure the Israeli government to immediately release Akram Mansour who had served 32 years in prison and have only three years left for his term to end.

The Israeli prisons administration deliberately fails to provide basic medical treatment and places of detention lack adequate conditions for good health, while regular checkups and surgeries by specialists are rare or never, said Huryyat. Prisoners also suffer from the bad air, insect infestation and unhygienic conditions.

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