BERN, (WAFA) - The Governing Council of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) condemned Israel’s incarceration of 21 Palestinian legislators and demanded their immediate release, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.
IPU’s human rights committee issued a resolution following its 125th assembly in the Swiss capital, Bern, in which it expressed deep regret that the prisoners’ exchange deal between Israel and Hamas did not include release of all Palestinian lawmakers, mainly Fatah’s Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The Governing Council, which adopted the human rights committee resolution, stressed that incarcerating Barghouti and Sa’adat is a clear violation of international law. It said the Israeli courts that deal with matters that have to do with Palestinians do not meet international justice standards.
The IPU called on Israel to improve the detention conditions of all jailed lawmakers, provide them with medical care and end Sa’adat’s long-term solitary confinement, which the IPU said “amounts to torture.”
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