Oldest Serving Administrative Detainee To Be Released Sunday

Oldest Serving Administrative Detainee To Be Released On Sunday

July 15, 20120 comments

Gaza Interior Ministry
15/7/2012

The oldest serving administrative detainee,Hamas leader Adnan Asfur, is to be released from Israeli occupation jails on Sunday.

Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of the Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights, said on Saturday that Asfur was detained since 19/3/2009 and is thus considered the “dean of administrative detainees”.

He said that Asfur, who is from Nablus, has been in administrative custody, without charge, for almost 40 months, adding that Asfur suffers from numerous diseases but his condition did not deter the Israeli occupation authority from renewing his detention for nine times.

Asfur, who participated in the recent prisoners’ hunger strike, was previously held in Israeli jails on 16 occasions during which he served more than six years in jail, adding that his last detention was made three months after his release from the earlier one.

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