IOA transfers arbitrarily female prisoners to notorious Damon prison

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Lawyer Buthaina Duqmaq, the head of the Mandela institution for human rights and political prisoners, said that the Israeli prisons authority has embarked suddenly on the transfer of all female Palestinian prisoners in section 11 in the Talmond prison to the notorious Damon prison in Haifa without giving reasons. Lawyer Duqmaq explained that the Talmond administration declared a state of alert in the prison and hastened to transfer the prisoners without considering the impact of this arbitrary step on the prisoners and their families where the distance to prison doubled and thus the burden on families will increase. She also reported that two female prisoners called Amna Mona and Abeer Amr will be transferred from the Jalama prison to another prison probably Damon during the coming days. The lawyer noted that Damon was built during the British mandate as a repository of tobacco leaves and designed to provide moisture for the conservation of the tobacco stock and in 1948, Israel took it over and later used it as a military prison. The lawyer added that prisoner Ramzi Obeid, who is serving eight life sentences, will be transferred to the Hadarim prison.