AMMAN (PIC)– Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights organized in Jordan a vigil in solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners the Jordanian captives and the Palestinian kidnapped MPs in Israeli jails outside the United Nations offices in Amman.
Fuad Al Khuffash director of Ahrar Center said that this vigil comes in protest at the international neglect regarding the issue of prisoners especially the hunger strikers and those who suffer serious health problems.
The protestors raised during the sit-in banners and chanted slogans supporting the kidnapped MPs and the prisoners and demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from the Jordanian territories.
The father of the prisoner leader Abdullah Barghouti sentenced to 67 life sentences called on the prisoners during the protest to hold out noting that the number of Jordanian missing prisoners in Israeli jails reached 29.
The mother of Jordanian prisoner Mari Abu Said sentenced to 11 life sentences appealed to the concerned authorities through Ahrar center to allow her and the prisoners mothers and wives to visit their sons denouncing the government and community’s neglect of the issue of prisoners
For his part Al Khuffash stressed on the importance of these vigils in supporting the prisoners in the occupation jails and pointed out that his center had recently organized two previous vigils during this month in Britain and Argentina.
