HomeNewsRamallah & Al BirehPalestinian prisoners demand medical treatment, end to isolation of Anas Jaradat

Palestinian prisoners are demanding that ill prisoner Anas Jaradat be released from isolation and provided with medical treatment. Jaradat, 36, from the village of Silat al-Harthiyeh near Jenin, is sentenced to 35 life sentences for his participation in armed resistance during the second Intifada. He has been held in isolation in Ashkelon prison for more than nine months under allegations that he is a “threat to security,” with no further details provided. Jaradat has been imprisoned since 11 May 2003, and he has been denied family visits for the past two years.

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