The Israeli prison authority unjustifiably transferred prisoner Nael al-Barghouthi known as the dean of the Palestinian prisoners from Negev jail to Ramon prison on Monday evening.
A human rights source told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the transfer of Barghouthi to another prison was a punitive measure taken against him for an unknown reason.
59-year-old Barghouthi from Kobar town in Ramallah was one of those prisoners who obtained their freedom in 2011 as part of the swap deal between the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and Israel before he was rejailed again in June 2014.
He was supposed to be released on November 6 but his jailers did not want to see him out of jail and filed an objection in this regard which was approved by an Israeli court.
He is considered the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails where he has spent a total of 36 years.
