Situation in the OPT/Prisoners – Letter from CEIRPP Chairman

Letter dated 4 August 1980 from the Chairman of the Committee

On the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian

People to the Secretary-General

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People has authorize me, in my capacity as Chairman, to bring to your notice the inhuman treatment accorded by Israeli authorities in the occupied Arab territories to those inhabitants whom they have imprisoned.

It is clear that conditions in Israel gaols are below normally accepted levels and that these have forced prisoners to resort to a hunger strike protest.

Already there have been reports of deaths due to forced feeding while no attempt has evidently been made to improve present conditions.

These atrocities are clear violations of the human rights of the inhabitants of the occupied territories and call for an investigation of the inhuman conditions in Israeli gaols, in general, and of the Nefha desert gaol, in particular, where the prisoners have been driven to a hunger strike in protest against the inhuman conditions that prevail there.

I should be grateful if you would have this letter circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under item 24 of the provisional agenda, and of the Security Council.

(Signed) Falikou KANE

Chairman of the

Committee on the Exercise of the

Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

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* A/35/150