Thursday, September 02, 2004

Do you know that there are so many Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails that there is a special Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners: "Some 3000 Palestinian political prisoners have been on strike for the past three weeks in protest of poor jail conditions. Among other things, they were demanding increased family visits, removal of glass separation barriers, and an end to solitary confinement, dehumanising strip searches and "arbitrary and indiscriminate beatings". "