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Hamas: Prisoners to be free if more soldiers captured
[Ma'an] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, politician Ahmad Bahar on Sunday urged Paleostinian factions to form orc groups with the aim of capturing Israeli soldiers.The deputized Paleostinian Legislative Council speaker said kidnapping soldiers would pressure Israeli authorities to release Paleostinian political prisoners. He made the remarks in a speech commemorating Paleostinian Prisoners' Day in Gazoo City. Bahar urged the captors of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to insist on their demands for a swap deal to release Paleostinian detainees. Shalit was seized in a cross-border raid in June 2006. Negotiations to secure his release have so far failed. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Paleostine Maxwell Gaylord on Sunday urged Israel to comply with international human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... law in its treatment of Paleostinian prisoners, particularly women and kiddies in Israeli jails. In a statement from his office to mark Prisoners' Day, Gaylord noted that the practice of detaining Paleostinians in Israel was contrary to the Geneva Conventions. "Israel's policies and practices regarding Paleostinian prisoners raise a number of concerns, including a lack of clarity on the legal status of such prisoners, the location and conditions of their incarceration, the need for access to legal counsel and representation, the issue of administrative detention, and the prevention of family visits for detainees from Gazoo," the statement said. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-18 |
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