APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jerusalem - 29 March 2021. Freed Palestinian prisoner Majd Barbar, is welcomed by relatives upon his release from an Israeli jail, in Jerusalem
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wife of the released Palestinian
02.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Freed Palestinian prisoner Majd Barbar
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Majd Barbar, from Ras al-Amoud neighborhood of East Jerusalem, was arrested on March 30, 2001, for his role in the resistance against the Israeli occupation and sentenced to 20 years. He is married and had two children when he was arrested, one of them, a daughter named Zeina, was only 15 days old at the time.
The Israeli occupation authorities re-arrested her husband, Majd, upon his release from the Naqab prison in the south of Israel, and took him to the Russian Compound prison, and summoned his brother, Izzeddin, also for interrogation.
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