Ashkelon Prisoners Warn of Open Hunger Strike
Akka added that after a visit to Ashkelon prison, the prison’s administration refuse to grant prisoners their just rights.
Even the dialogue with the administration didn’t help, on the contrary it has worsened the situation, Akka added.
The prisoners confirmed that solitary confinement policy and only allowing first degree relatives to visit them are violations of their rights, especially prisoners in solitary confinement who are not granted visits even from their first degree relatives.
The prison’s administration conducts unexpected inspections during inappropriate times; deliberately during Friday prayer and violates prisoners’ private property which causes chaos inside the prisoners’ rooms.
The Club’s lawyer said that those inspections create some kind of instability in the prison and the dialogue with the administration is becoming fruitless.
Ashkelon prisoners returned meals protesting the bad conditions in prison such as lack of hot water and prohibiting Mutasim Muqadi’s father from visiting him.
M.H./F.R.
March 10, 2011