RAMALLAH, August 16, 2018 (WAFA) – Palestinian woman writer Lama Khater was remanded in custody for eight more days, the sixth remand since her arrest at her Hebron-area home on July 24, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Thursday.

Khater appeared at a military court at Asqalan prison in southern Israel, which remanded her for eight more days to give more time for her interrogation.

She has been undergoing rigorous interrogation that often lasts for 20 hours a day with her hands and feet tied and while sitting on a chair in order to get her to sign a confession, according to the PPS.

Khater, a mother of five children, was detained for her anti-occupation writing and call for resistance and is being accused of incitement in addition to membership in an illegal organization, charges she has rejected.

The same court also remanded another woman Palestinian mother of five, Sonia Hammouri, for eight days also to continue her interrogation.

A third woman detainee, Saida Badr, a mother of two, was also remanded for eight days by the same court.

Hammouri and Badr were detained at their Hebron homes on August 14.

M.K.