RABAT (Dispatches) – A Moroccan women advocacy group on Wednesday condemned abuses against Palestinian female prisoners in the Israeli-occupied territories.
“We express our condemnation and outrage at the brutal assault on Palestinian female prisoners, including placing some of them in solitary confinement,” the Moroccan Women Against Political Detention said in a statement.
The NGO stressed its “full solidarity with the Palestinian female prisoners brutally assaulted by the Zionist repressive apparatus inside prison.”
It also demanded the immediate release of all Palestinian prisoners from Zionist prisons.
On Tuesday, the Prisoners’ National Movement, a group representing Palestinian prisoners, called for dedicating the coming Friday to show solidarity with Palestinian female prisoners in the occupied territories.
Palestinian factions have earlier called for “an appropriate response” to attacks on female prisoners in Damon and Nafha prisons.
Prisoners’ rights groups on Sunday said Zionist prison authorities in Damon are “carrying out successive abuses against Palestinian female prisoners.”
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said representatives of Palestinian prisoners in the occupying regime’s jails have met with the prison administration in Ramon Prison and demanded an end to the ongoing unprecedented assaults against female detainees.
The organization said in a statement on Monday that the representatives presented, during the meeting, their demands, most notably stopping the assault against the female prisoners and ending the isolation of Shoroq Doyat, Marah Bakir and Mona Kaadan.
According to the statement, only when the demands are met, will an in-depth dialogue continue regarding the female prisoners’ issue.
There are around 4,500 Palestinian detainees in the regime’s prisons, including 32 women, and 170 minors, according to institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs.