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Thursday, August 17, 2006

2400 detainees in the Negev on Hunger Strike

The Wonderful world we live in today, Another Guantanamo

Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Protesting naked body searches practiced by the prison authorities at the Israeli Negev detention camp against the relatives of the detainees, at least 2400 detainees announced hunger Strike on Tuesday morning. Palestinian Detainees Media Center reported that the detainees in twenty sections at the Negev desert detention camp returned all meals since Tuesday at noon in protest to the hostilities practiced against them and against their parents. The Center added that soldiers are attempting to force wives, mothers or sisters of the detainees to undress completely in order to search them before they visit their detained family members (...) There are at least 2400 detainees in the Negev, among them 500 detainees who have been there by repeated extensions of their detention orders without clear charges against them since the Israeli Authorities use a"secret files", secret files means that the detainee or his lawyer cannot even know what charges are filed...

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Amnesty International

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PALESTINE MONITOR

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