Prisoners

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Commission said on Monday that the Israeli occupation authorities issued and renewed administrative detention orders for 101 Palestinian prisoners.

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As the prisoner in charge of UVF/RHC (Red Hand Commando) prisoners, I had previously held talks with him about Special Category prisoners housed in Long Kesh.

But the jail staff responded by moving 30 prisoners to another wing on January 5, and giving the female prisoners only rice and beans to eat, instead of the chicken and fish normally provided.

He said the group is aiming to free all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, which in the past has agreed to lopsided exchange deals in which it released large numbers of prisoners for individual captives or even the remains of soldiers.

Palestinian human rights organisations have repeatedly condemned what they say is Israel's policy of medical negligence against Palestinian prisoners and have documented the deaths of dozens of ill prisoners in Israeli custody since 1967.

The International Red Cross is the authorized body to monitor the conditions of prisoners of war and ensure that the occupying states adhere to the international standards and conventions that guarantee the protection of prisoners during times of war.

The junta has been using prison transfers in recent months as a pretext for interrogating, torturing and killing political prisoners, the AAPP said in a statement on Monday, citing the disappearance of 37 political prisoners on June 27 as one example.

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Committee said that Israeli authorities informed their lawyer that the body of killed Palestinian, Muhammad Zaghlul Rimawi, will be handed over to the Rimawi family on Sunday evening.

Tun Kyi, a senior member of the Former Political Prisoners Society, said it is not known how many of the political prisoners will be among those released, if any, but any such action would be taken to burnish the image of the military government.

With three Palestinian prisoners to be freed for each hostage under the deal, the corresponding number of freed Palestinian prisoners was to be 39 or 42.

He said de-escalation confinement and longer-term restrictive housing are needed to keep violent prisoners from harming other prisoners and staff.

Sinwar’s deputy added that the group is demanding the release of 50 terrorist prisoners for each female soldier and 30 terrorist prisoners for each civilian.

The Head of Healthcare should ensure that all new prisoners receive secondary health screens within seven days, in line with NICE guidelines and PSO 3050, Continuity of Healthcare for Prisoners.

Asked about prisoners being released from prision terms, Melissa DeRosa Secretary to the Governor, said only prisoners with 90 days of their sentences remaining were being released to avoid exposure to Covid-19.

But not nearly as many prisoners are being released as Americans are being made prisoners in their own homes.

Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have contracted coronavirus inside an Israeli-run prison, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs said Tuesday.

For prisoners in Categories B to D there is no routine vetting of visitors, other than for prisoners where there are child safeguarding or harassment concerns.

He also that medical teams had been stationed in prisons across the country to monitor the health of prisoners daily, and that prisoners who show symptoms are immediately tested and transferred to hospitals outside the prison if the results are positive.

He said the prison facility is divided into four distinct wings, with state prisoners held in the east and west, and federal prisoners held in the north and south.