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PALESTINE
Hamas vows abductees’ cause to remain ‘top priority’ until every detainee is freed
Hamas pledged that the struggle to free Palestinian abductees will remain the nation’s highest priority, and that Palestinians will not rest until every detainee is released from Israel’s “new Nazi” jails and the occupation ends.
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INVESTIGATIONS
How Americans released in swap deal engaged in espionage activities in Iran
Americans imprisoned in Iran, who are being released under a prisoner swap deal between the two countries, had engaged in espionage activities in Iran. Press TV website examines their individual cases.
FRANCE
Prisons in France teeming as govt crackdown on protests intensifies
Prison overcrowding in France gets worse as the country sets a new record for the number of inmates in its teeming prisons amid the government’s repression of protests.
POLITICS
Iran Leader pardons, commutes sentences of 1,760 prisoners
Ayatollah Khamenei accepts a proposal to pardon and commute the prison terms of 1,760 inmates on the occasion of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
PALESTINE
Israel arrested 607 Palestinians in August, advocacy groups say
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) keeps Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions lacking proper hygienic standards.
PALESTINE
Israel has detained 9,000+ Palestinian kids since 2015: Advocacy group
Testimonies by the minors show most of them underwent some sort of physical or psychological torture.
PALESTINE
Palestinian prisoners continue boycott of Israeli courts for 58th day
They have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for the 58th consecutive day.
PALESTINE
Hamas: Israel medical negligence behind COVID-19 surge among Palestinian inmates
Hamas says Israel’s medical negligence is behind a surge of COVID-19 among Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
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