Bahar Calls For Intensification Of Pressure On Israeli Occupation To Release Detained MPs
Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Dr. Ahmed Bahar called for intensifying pressure on the
occupation government to release the detained MPs whose detention has been continuously extended.
In a press release on Wednesday, Bahar talked of the need to provide all forms of support to the elderly MP Ahmed Hajj
Ali, who suffers from many health issues, and who resumed his open hunger strike on Tuesday which will continue till his
release.
He further expressed his surprise at the silence of human rights and international organizations in the face of the
organized crime that is continuously committed by the occupation against the elected representatives and violations of
their rights, as well as the absence of initiatives to condemn the occupation's practices against the MPs.
Bahar also shed light on the need to augment the efforts to support the voices of solidarity rejecting the occupation's
crimes and practices against the MPs, mentioning the position of Inter-Parliamentary Union which was held in Uganda
recently, and which condemned the policy of occupation and called for the release of the detained MPs.
Bahar also called on the need to coordinate efforts and national positions to sustain the activities and the events of
solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike, headed by MP Hajj Ali, stressing the importance of keeping the issue of
prisoners alive in the Palestinians' soul and at the top of the Palestinian agenda all times.
Moreover, he pointed out the importance of developing forms of solidarity with the captives in the occupation's prisons,
and inventing new methods capable of breaking up the routine and traditional present work of solidarity, in order to
expand the circles of public as well as institutional participation to support the cause of prisoners.
12/4/2012
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