The Israeli administration of Damon jail on Tuesday took arbitrary punitive measures against several Palestinian female prisoners and isolated one of them for several hours.
Lawyer Sahar Francis head of Addameer Association for Prisoner Support stated on Wednesday that her visit on Tuesday to Ramon jail did not last for even 15 minutes as the prison administration canceled the visit and informed her that there was an emergency situation.
According to Addameer Association the tension in the prison started when the Damon administration asked some workers from the civil prisoners to repair the sewage system in room number 11 in the women section. The room has seven female prisoners who spent their recreational time during the reparations. However the deputy administrator of the women’s section claimed that she had asked the women to stay in the toilet during the reparations rather than the yard but the women reaffirmed that they did not know of such a request and this was why they went to the yard to take their recreational time.
The women in detention added that the prison administration got outraged and took prisoner Yasmin Sha’ban to isolation. Yasmin was put in the lawyer’s visit room from 12:00 pm until 5:30 pm and she was deprived in a disciplinary hearing held for her of receiving family visits for a month and letters for two months and was also fined 100-600 Shekels from her canteen money.
In addition to the measures taken against Yasmin Israeli forces raided room number 11 and confiscated all electronic equipment except for one heater. All that led the women in that room to protest by declaring they would not take their recreational time which prompted the administration to let Yasmin out of isolation at 5:30 pm but it decided to hold a disciplinary hearing against the women in the room.
Addameer sees that the women in detention especially those who were transferred from Hasharon prison to Demon prison are being exposed to direct targeting by Israeli jailers after protesting for two months in September 2018 new measures taken against them.
