RAMALLAH, March 8, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli security service re-arrested on Wednesday Mamoun Farhat on the day he was going to be released after a completing a five-year prison sentence for throwing a Molotov cocktail as Israeli forces in Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
PPS attorney Mufeed al-Hajj said Farhat, an East Jerusalem resident, was re-arrested immediately after he was released from Naqab desert prison in the south of the country and before he was able to walk out of the prison and taken to the Russian Compound, Maskobieh, police station in West Jerusalem where he was undergoing interrogation.
Hajj explained that Israel has been employing this policy recently against prisoners from East Jerusalem to deprive their families and friends from celebrating their release.
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