IOA blocks visits to female detainee

IOA blocks visits to female detainee

The Israeli occupation authority has banned lawyer of Nafha legal society from visiting detainee Hanadi Kenaan raising doubts that she was subjected to illegal pressures and blackmailing.


IOF troops took away Hanadi, 26, from her parents” house in downtown Nablus on 27/3/2008.


Nafha appealed to human and women rights groups to demand freedom of Hanadi and to pressure the IOA into allowing her lawyer”s visit.


The Petah Tikwa interrogation center also prevented lawyer of detainee Yazid Eshtawi from visiting him at the pretext that interrogation with him was not over yet.


In another incident Nafha lawyer said that the IOA moved detainee Ayat Al-Qaisi, 17, from Petah Tikwa to Hasharon central prison after ten days of suffering and psychological pressures during which her lawyer was not allowed to meet her for seven days.


IOF soldiers arrested Ayat from her home in Balata refugee camps on 21/3/2008 after firing live bullets and sonic bombs inside her home.


In Ramallah, IOF troops on Saturday kidnapped Abdul Rahman Housa, 34, from the Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah. The soldiers ransacked his home and terrorized his family members, including four children, before taking him away. Housa, who suffers from pneumonia, is known for his social activities in favor of the Islamic Jihad Movement.