Palestinian female prisoner, Nelly Safadi, released

Palestinian female prisoner, Nelly Safadi, released after twenty two months in Israeli prison.

Israeli authorities have finally released Nelly Safadi, a 35 year old female prisoner from Nablus, twenty two months after her first arrest at an Israeli checkpoint between Nablus and Ramallah.

Nelly’s release, which had already been delayed due to the cancellation of the ‘Amenhala’, ends the extreme hardship she faced whilst imprisoned – where she was deprived from family visits from her mother. Her husband Bilal, who is blind, has also been detained for nine years, forty days after his marriage to Nelly, and has been kept in isolation.

UFree, a European wide organization campaigning on the right of Palestinian prisoners, has been campaigning for the release of Nelly – whose campaign was launched at its inaugural conference in Geneva in March.

UFree hopes that Nelly’s release will lead to the release of the other 35 Palestinian women held captive, who are subject to cruel and inhumane conditions in Israeli prisons. UFree is particularly concerned about the condition of Ahlam Tamimi, who has been given a life sentence sixteen times.

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