The administration of Ramla prison suppresses the sick and disabled detainee Mansour Mouqadeh and moves him to Ofer prison under abusive measures and medical crimes

The administration of Ramla prison suppresses the sick and disabled detainee Mansour Mouqadeh and moves him to Ofer prison under abusive measures and medical crimes 

 

 December 2, 2023 

 

Ramallah 

 

 The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club stated that Special Forces suppressed and moved the detainee Mansour Mouqadeh from the clinic of Alramla prison to Ofer prison several days ago, and implemented torture acts against him, as an extension of the medical crimes committed against him since 2002. 

 

 The Commission and the Prisoner’s Club clarified in a joint statement, that the IPS has held Mouqadeh in tragic conditions after moving him to Ofer Prison, which is inappropriate for his health conditions. Moreover, they confiscated all his belongings, especially urine bags, in addition to covers and clothes, which worsened his tragic condition due to the cold weather. 

 

The IPS has misused the cold weather to torture detainees, where they always tend to confiscate clothes and covers, in addition, the tend to use the policy of starvation, which threatens the fate of hundreds of sick and elderly detainees.

 This crime came within the escalation of systematic abuse and torture implemented against detainees, which increased after the 7th of October, and reflected in the testimonies of liberated detainees.

 

 In the light of the mass aggression against detainees, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club renewed their calls upon the ICRC to revise its role, to which they were not committed, and intervene immediately to visit detainees. 

 

 It is worth mentioning that Mansour Mouqadeh, from Salfit, is detained since 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment.