Israel violates the rights of Palestinian women prisoners

Palestinian women prisoners in the Israeli al-Ramla prison are being exposed to tough repressive acts, and live under very difficult humanitarian conditions, as they called on the Palestinian government and the Palestinian prisoner's rights group to help them bring their plight to the international community.

In two separate messages addressed to the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, and the Palestinian prisoner group in al-Khalil, the women prisoners said that they were exposed to torture, repression, isolation and other maltreatment. Their room were broken in and personal belongings inspected. Moreover al-Ramla prison administration continue preventing their relatives from visiting them.

The director of the prisoner's rights group in Hebron, Amjad al-Najjar, said that the 79 women prisoners live in their worst days, noting that he provided lawyers messages from the prisoners including a description for the cruel life they do live.