Columbia Missourian · 4 October 1984

CP-1984-007

Palestinian prisoners fast in order to gain sunlight

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Palestinian prisoners fast in order to gain sunlight JERUSALEM (UPI) - Lawyers enough space to house the prisoners for 673 hunger-striking Palestinian properly, but the excess area is prisoners said Wednesday the in- given to the guards and administra- mates vowed to press their 9 day-old tors. fast until authorities improve condi- Jewish and Arab lawyers for the dions at the Jenead prison 673 prisoners charged authorities We demand to be allowed to live block the cell windows with asbestos in a human condition, to ... see the sun," said Jihad Shakri, 25, a former slabs and keep overhead bulbs burn- ing 24 hours a day, perhaps conceal- hunger-striking inmate released ing cameras.

Monday from the recently opened prison in Nablus, on the occupied Police Minister Chaim Bar-Lev West Bank. has visited the prison, met the in- "We are prisoners, but I am a per- mates, and called some of their d

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"Palestinian prisoners fast in order to gain sunlight," Columbia Missourian, 4 October 1984. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1984-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1984-007

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