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Palestinian Political Prisoners
Loaded on July 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1993, page 14
Israeli prisons are in many respects a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As places of detention and physical and psychological suffering, they represent in starkest terms the violent essence of occupation. On the other hand, Palestinian prisoners have turned them into fronts of struggle and steadfastness. Thus in the face …
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Organizing,
Hunger Strikes,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Prisoners-International.
Locations:
Israel,
Palestine.
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