RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority on Sunday released the Jordanian prisoner Mazen Malasa after six years in captivity which he spent them all in isolation cells legal sources reported on Monday.
Rapporteur of the national committee for prisoners and missing in Israeli occupation jails in the Jordanian engineers syndicate Maysara Malasa said in a press release that Mazen 32 was currently in Ramallah to prepare for his return to Jordan.
Mazen a chemical engineer who graduated from Damascus University was arrested on 4/7/2001 at a roadblock in Ramallah district.
He was since then held in isolation cells in Askalan jail after undergoing “cruel” interrogation rounds Maysara asserted.
For his part PA minister of prisoners’ affairs Wasfi Kabaha congratulated Mazen over his release describing his isolation all those years as “madness”.
He described the IOA’s measure as an attempt to weaken the Palestinian and Arab strugglers.
