APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jenin - 05 April 2021. Palestinians take part in the campaign entitled (born free), in front of the family home of the martyr Kamal Abu Wa'er, during the Palestinian Prisoners' Day, in Jenin in the West Bank.
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As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers. While governments around the world are being called on to release prisoners and those detained in violation of international law, the Israeli occupying authorities have taken no steps to release Palestinian prisoners and detainees or to adequately mitigate and prevent a COVID-19 outbreak in prisons. Instead, mass arbitrary detentions and arrests, a staple of Israel’s prolonged military occupation and widespread and systematic human rights violations against the Palestinian people, have continued during the pandemic.
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