Jailed PFLP leader moved to Nafha prison
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Ahmad Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was moved to Nafta jail on Wednesday by Israeli authorities, a prisoner rights group said.The leader, who is serving a 30-year sentence, was previously imprisoned in Gilboa jail, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said.A lawyer from the group said that Palestinian detainees in Gilboa will refuse their evening meals to protest the move.
Saadat has been in Israeli custody since March 2006, when Israeli forces detained him from a Palestinian Authority jail in Jericho and put him on trial for allegedly masterminding the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.He was charged in 2008 for heading an "illegal terrorist organization."
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Ahmad Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was moved to Nafta jail on Wednesday by Israeli authorities, a prisoner rights group said.The leader, who is serving a 30-year sentence, was previously imprisoned in Gilboa jail, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said.A lawyer from the group said that Palestinian detainees in Gilboa will refuse their evening meals to protest the move.
Saadat has been in Israeli custody since March 2006, when Israeli forces detained him from a Palestinian Authority jail in Jericho and put him on trial for allegedly masterminding the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.He was charged in 2008 for heading an "illegal terrorist organization."
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