ISRAEL BANS PALESTINIAN JAILED LEADER FROM RECEIVING VISITORS

Photo: Ma'an News Agency — Photo: Ma’an News Agency

Al-Quds, 7 Rabiul Awwal 1436/29 December 2014 (MINA)– Israeli Prison Services on Saturday (27/12) banned Ahmad Saadat, the secretary-general of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine party currently being held in detention, from receiving visitors for three months.

Saadat has been banned from receiving visitors since September, meaning that at the end of the new ban he will have been kept from receiving visitors a total of six months.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said in response that the decision is part of ongoing Israeli policies that target prisoners generally and the leaders of prisoners specifically.

Saadat has been held by Israel since 2006, when it raided a Palestinian prison in Jericho where he was being held and captured him to widespread criticism,

Saddat was being held in the prison as part of an agreement by Palestinian authorities with Israel, who claimed he was involved in the killing of the Israeli tourism minister in 2001 that took place in response to the assassination of the previous secretary-general of the PFLP.

In 2008, Israel re-sentenced Saadat to 30 years in prison in a military trial for involvement in an “illegal terrorist organization” after holding him for two years without trial.

Since then, he has been repeatedly placed in solitary confinement and restricted from receiving any visitors, including family. (T/P010/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)