Report - April 16, 2001
This year, Palestinian Prisoners Day comes at a time when the Intifada is continuing and the Palestinian prisoners are still kept captive and even more new prisoners are being arrested since the start of the Intifada.

Last year had witnessed a series of events that had had major effects on the prisoners’ movement and the eruption of the Intifada at the end of September could not pass without also adding more effects to those ones.

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Special Report - September 24, 2001
September 20th marked 25 years since the arrest and detention of Palestinian political prisoner Ahmed Jabara Abu Sukr. Abu Sukr was arrested on 20 September 1976 and after spending 153 days in interrogation he was convicted on the basis of evidence obtained from a collaborator. He is currently incarcerated in Askelan Prison and is the longest serving Palestinian political prisoner currently in an Israeli jail.

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Press Release - October 21, 2001
Palestinian security forces have entered the third day of a campaign of political arrests against many individuals and leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, after the PFLP military wing took responsibility for the military action against the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehevam Ze’evi, in response to the assassination of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa on 27 August 2001. The arrests come as a response to political and military pressure from the Israeli and US administrations against the Palestinian Authority.

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Press Release - November 01, 2001
Palestinian women organizations and activists are gravely concerned following verbal and physical assaults by Palestinian security forces on Palestinian women and children, families of political prisoners detained by the Palestinian Authority.

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