Iran has condemned as cruel and illegal an Israeli court’s verdict
against the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Abdul
Aziz Duwaik.
An Israeli court on Monday handed down a one-year prison term to the
67-year-old Palestinian official and ordered him to pay more than a
thousand dollars for delivering a speech at a pro-resistance celebration
three years ago.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham denounced the
sentence and said thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
are in grave conditions.
Afkham also said that Israel’s ongoing arrests of Palestinian
lawmakers and sentencing them to jail terms on baseless charges area
hostile and a futile attempt to silence the justice-seeking voice of the
Palestinian nation.
The Iranian official called on international legal bodies to take
serious action to compel Israel to stop its measures against the
Palestinian prisoners.
Back in June 2014, Israeli soldiers stormed the house of Duwaik in
the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) and abducted him.
Palestinian prisoners at Israel’s Megiddo Prison
Israeli forces regularly kidnap Palestinians in the West Bank and put
them behind bars based on the so-called administrative detention
policy, which enables the Tel Aviv regime to keep them in prison without
trial or charge for up to six months. The detention order can be
renewed for an indefinite number of times.
Over 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly being held in Israeli jails and detention camps without clear charges.
The Israeli regime has repeatedly come under fire for its administrative detention policies.
Jumat, 29 Mei 2015
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