Al-Ahrar center for prisoners' studies strongly denounced the IOA for arresting Raja'a Al-Ghoul, who works for the center as a jurist in charge of female prisoners files. The center holds Israel fully responsible for her life since she is in a difficult health condition resulting from heart disease.
Palestinian eyewitness from Jenin reported that IOF troops and intelligence officers broke into and ransacked the house of Ghoul before rounding her up, adding that they deliberately sabotaged the furniture under the pretext of looking for banned stuff.
Al-Ahrar center affirmed that the arrest of jurists and human rights workers is a dangerous precedent and a flagrant violation of human rights and international conventions.
Ghoul suffers from shortness of breath and hardened arteries. She has already spent four years in Israeli jails.
In another context, Faris Abu Hasan, the lawyer of the international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights, said that the IOA decided Tuesday to extend the administrative detention of Dr. Majda Fidda, a member of Nablus municipality, for an additional period of six months.
The IOA arrested Fidda in August 2008, and he remained in custody during a five month investigation in which no evidence was found against him. He has never been convicted of any crime. After this initial investigation period, code word for Israel's attempt at torturing information out of prisoners, Fidda's incarceration was extended by three months. Today Israel extended his detention for an additional six months.
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