The UK-based Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) has held Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas and premier Rami al-Hamdallah fully responsible for the illegal detention of seven political prisoners although they received release orders from a local appeal court.
The detainees are Ibrahim Zaid Maisra Ofana Louay Dawoud Ahmed Fareij Mahmoud Khadraj Saleh Dawoud and Abdullah Khalil. All of them have gone on hunger strike in protest at their detention with no guilt.
AOHR called for the immediate release of those detainees and the launch of an investigation into reported violations committed against them during their detention.
It stressed that “the continued detention of anyone without a court verdict is a clear indication of the fragility and weakness of the justice system and the brutality of the security apparatuses towards all institutions which deprives citizens of getting legal justice.
