Dozens of activists rallied outside the headquarters of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry in Amman on Thursday afternoon calling for a “dignified visit” to prisoner Muneer Mar’i held in Israeli jail.
A PIC news correspondent said the rally was staged by the National Committee for Detained and Missing Jordanians in Israeli Prisons in partnership with the National Committee of Engineers. Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry Mohamed Abu Wendy took part in the rally.
The move comes in protest at the apathy maintained by the Jordanian Foreign ministry as regards the appeals of Mar’i’s brother and sisters to broker a “dignified visit” to their sibling who had been brutally attacked by the Israeli jailers.
Abu Wendy pledged to speak up for the family and to submit a request to extend the temporal interval scheduled for the visit.
Head of the Jordanian Union of Agricultural Engineers Mahmoud Abu Ghneimeh also urged the civil institutions international organizations and mass media to rally around Mar’i among other detainees in Israeli lock-ups.
A brother and two sisters of the Jordanian prisoner Muneer Mar’i headed to the occupied Palestinian territories on Wednesday morning to visit their sibling in an Israeli jail. However the visit was cancelled after the Israeli authorities reneged on their promises to secure an open visit.
Jordanian national Muneer Mar’i was arrested on April 2 2003 and was sentenced to five back-to-back life sentences in Israeli jails on charges of sending a group to carry out an anti-occupation operation in an Israeli illegal settlement outpost built on Palestinian lands in al-Khalil.
His parents died while he had been serving his life-sentences in Israeli lock-ups. He had recently been beaten by the Israeli wardens until he fainted.
