Barghouti.. 24 years inside Israeli jails
On Tuesday, prisoner Marwan Barghouti enters his 24th year in Israeli prisons, amid escalating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and prisoners in its jails.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said in a statement on Tuesday that this anniversary comes at a time of greatest bloodshed for the Palestinian people, as the Israeli enemy continues its systematic genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
The Prisoners' Club noted that since the beginning of the war of extermination, prisoners and leaders of the prisoners' movement, including Barghouti, have been subjected to unprecedented levels of abuse, isolation, theft, torture, and assault.
It explained that the prison system has deliberately entrenched all its tools to target our prisoners, deny them their rights, and strip them of what they have achieved through blood and sacrifice. Barghouti, along with his comrades, has been subjected to repeated isolation and transfers, and according to the latest information, he is currently being held in solitary confinement in Ramon Prison.
It explained that during his repeated transfers and isolation, he was subjected to repeated attacks by repression units, along with a group of leaders of the prisoners' movement.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club emphasized that these measures and policies, which the Israeli enemy escalated after October 7, 2023, and which did not arise today, constitute a pattern and extension of its repressive and retaliatory policies since its occupation of our land, during which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been subjected to arrest, abuse, and torture.
It should be noted that Barghouti was born in 1959 in the town of Kobar, northwest of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. He was arrested for the first time in 1976, then re-arrested by the Israeli enemy for the second time in 1978, and for the third time in 1983.
After his release in 1983, he enrolled at Birzeit University and was elected president of the student council for three consecutive years. He was re-arrested by the Israeli enemy again in 1984 for a short period, followed by a subsequent arrest in 1985, which lasted for 50 days. During this time, he was subjected to harsh interrogation, placed under house arrest, and subsequently placed under administrative detention that same year.
On April 15, 2002, after a long manhunt, Israeli forces arrested him in the Al-Irsal neighborhood of Ramallah. He was sentenced to five life sentences and forty years in prison in 2004.
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