September 20, 2024

Prisoner Iyad Jaradat is on the verge of his fourth year in solitary confinement

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and Ex-Prisoners reported in its report issued today, Thursday, after its lawyer visited Rimonim Prison, that prisoner Iyad Jaradat (39 years old) from the city of Jenin, will enter his fourth year of solitary confinement on October 19, 2024, as he is transferred from one isolation cell to another every three months.

The lawyer added that Jaradat still suffers from bruises and pain, as a result of being subjected to repression and severe beatings three times in solitary confinement in Rimonim Prison and twice in solitary confinement in Megiddo Prison.

It is noteworthy that Iyad was arrested in 2002 against the backdrop of the Jenin camp events, and a life sentence and 25 years were issued against him, and his detention was extended for an additional 4 years in addition to a fine of 2,000 shekels, on charges of supporting the prisoners of the Gilboa Tunnel (Freedom), when the five prisoners (Muhammad and Mahmoud Al-Arada, Yaqoub Qadri, Zakaria Zubeidi,
Munadil Anfiat, and Ayham Kamamji) were able to seize their freedom on 09/06/2021, before being re-arrested again.

Source: Maan News Agency