Free Network welcomes the release of Dr. Dowik and calls upon releasing other PLC members.
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UFree Network welcomes the release of Dr. Aziz Dowik, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), after being
detained in January at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank under the illegal Israeli administrative detention law.
Mohammed Hamdan, UFree chairman, said that releasing Dr. Dowik, whom represents Palestinian legitimacy, is a great
victory for Palestinian determination over the Israeli prisons.
Hamdan pointed that the continuing detention for members of PLC is a flagrant violation for international laws and
conventions, which state on the parliamentary immunity for all elected PLC members.
Hamdan also said that UFree network continues to undertake its role in introducing the case of Palestinian prisoners to
the whole world and to call upon implementing EU latest recommendations that in releasing the 20 detained PLC members in
Israeli jails.
It is worth mentioning that Dr. Dowik suffers from many diseases and he was arrested several times. In addition to that,
in the beginning of 1990s, he was exiled outside Palestine and was detained in 2006 with more than 54 PLC members in
from the 10th Palestinian government.
Israeli occupation forces are still targeting PLC members in the West Bank, where it lately arrested Ahmed Mobarak from
Ramallah and sat another member, Hassan Yusuf, for interrogation at Al Maskobia jail.
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UFree Network is an independent European-wide human rights network; set up to defend the rights of Palestinian political prisoners and
detainees.
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