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Prisoner’s Club Demands Immediate Investigation on Assaulting Prisoners

RAMALLAH, March17 (WAFA) - The prisoner’s club Thursday demanded an urge investigation due to the brutal attacks against prisoners during their arrests.

PPS (Palestinian Prisoner’s Club)Lawyer, Jacqueline Fararjeh,  met a number of the prisoners who were arrested recently, and reported that the Israeli  forces raided their homes, severely beaten their families and arrested  them at down.

The prisoners said that the Israeli forces led them to an isolated area close to an army camp called ‘Karmi Tzur’ , covered their eyes and severely beaten them, after tying their hands and feet as well as floating some of them over a rocky ground causing serious bruises.

They added that some of the soldiers opened the military’s jeep back door and threw a prisoner from inside of the jeep while holding his hands dragging him as the jeep was going at a high speed causing severe injuries to his body.

The lawyer said that while she was meeting the prisoners, the Israeli soldiers constantly tried to convince her that they had nothing to do with the prisoners’ injuries.

Chief of the Legal Unit in PPS, lawyer Jawad Boulos said that “after receiving the complaints we went to the director of the Israeli prisons and the legal counsel in Beit El settlement and demanded an immediate investigation on these assaults.”

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