Female Palestinian Lawyer Recounts Prison Ordeal

WEST BANK (Press TV) – Female Palestinian lawyer Shireen al-Eesawy, currently incarcerated at HaSharon prison in central parts of the occupied territories, says she has suffered harsh conditions in solitary confinement, describing Israeli guards' behavior as inhumane.

Date: 14 July 2015 - 21:27

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Eesawy told defense lawyer Hanan al-Khatib of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, who recently managed to visit her, that she was moved into solitary confinement two months ago, after an argument erupted between a number of Palestinian detainees and prison guards at HaSharon detention facility.
The imprisoned lawyer added that she went on hunger strike between June 15 and June 22, and that she was also placed in solitary confinement, when she was being held in Ramla prison.
"The cell was too small. Its door sealed shut. They even sealed the door with plastic,” Eesawy said, adding, "I couldn’t breathe and fell unconscious before they removed the plastic to allow some air through.”
"I had no sheets or covers. I had to sleep on the ground; they even confiscated all of my belongings,” the detained Palestinian lawyer said.
"The cell has no sink and is completely unfit for human use. Whenever they took me to see my lawyer, or whenever I was shortly allowed into the prison yard, the soldiers always cuffed me, and chained my legs,” Eesawy noted.
She added that Zionist prison guards start the transfer of detainees to the court at around 3 a.m. local time (0000 GMT), and return them back to prison at around one after midnight the following day.
"They make sure the entire process is very exhausting to us,” the detained Palestinian lawyer stated. "They deliberately deny us the right to sleep, or even to rest.”
Eesawy was kidnapped from her house in East Jerusalem al-Quds on June 3, 2014, and since then the Israeli High Court has refused to release her on bail.
Israeli forces routinely abduct Palestinians in the West Bank and put them behind bars based on the so-called administrative detention, which allows the Israeli regime to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial for months or years.
Over 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly incarcerated in 17 prisons and detention camps of the Zionist regime.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Center for Studies (PPCS) says administrative detention orders in the first three months of 2015 have witnessed a sharp increase over the similar period in 2014.
According to the PPCS, Zionist troops have arrested 78 Palestinian females, including minors, in the first quarter of 2015.