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Israel Denies Lebanese Detainees Outside Contact

On the Eve of Passover the Feast of Freedom: Israel denies Lebanese Detainees Contact with the Outside World

On the Eve of Passover the Feast of Freedom: Israel denies Lebanese Detainees Contact with the Outside World

Three Lebanese prisoners captured during the Second Lebanon War or July War are incarcerated at Ashmoret Prison: Maher Kurani, Hussein Sliman and Muhammad Sarur. Three more Lebanese prisoners are detained in other prisons.

Israel demands that the Israeli prisoners be treated as prisoners of war and be allowed to receive visits by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), yet in fact does not grant the prisoners incarcerated by it the rights guaranteed to them under international law.

Since their imprisonment 8 months ago Israel has denied those prisoners reception of letters from their families which were handed over to the ICRC.

Since October 2006 Israel has denied the prisoners visits by representatives of the ICRC.

In the past the ICRC has expressed hope that allowing its representatives to visit Lebanese prisoners will be instrumental in promoting similar visits to Israeli prisoners in Lebanon.

The prisoners are held in complete separation from other prisoners and detainees and are not even allowed to speak to them.

For more than two months Israel has denied the prisoners access to newspapers, and recently the radio purchased by them in the prison was confiscated , cutting them completely of from all contact with the outside world, except for visits by their legal counsels.

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Possibly those measures were effected in reaction to a petition submitted by the prisoners to the Tel Aviv District Court to allow visits of IRCR representatives. The radio was confiscated one day before the date scheduled for a court hearing of the petition.

The food given to the prisoners has changed in the past few months: It is insufficient in quantity, contains insects and is actually uneatable.

The prisoners are threatening to go on hunger strike unless they be given the basic human conditions.

The court hearing of the petition will take place on April 17, 2007, in the courtroom at Hasharon Prison.

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