Palestinian Prisinors
By Mandela Institute for Human Rights
August 27, 2004

The Higher Commission following Up the Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees Affairs expresses its deep respect to Dr. Aron Gandi, the international peace activist seeking the promotion of human rights and peace allover The World, and welcomes him in the Palestinian occupied territories and considers him as one of the Palestinian people that has deep historic relations with India.

HCFPPDA welcome the sincere feelings expressed by Dr. Gandi regarding the open ended hunger strike of Arab and Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli Military detention facilities. Dr. Gandi stated that the Israeli acts in Palestine are worst than that acts in South Africa during the racists era. Dr. Gandi clearly criticized the Israeli Military actions in Jerusalem and the Israeli Military Checkpoints. DR. Gandi expressed his deep concern regarding the prisoners' issues and called to meet their minimum requirements and demands and respect their human dignity. Dr. Gandi felt sadness when listening to tragic stories being told by the families of the prisoners and stated that depriving prisoners from family visits is a grave breach and violations to basic human rights.

Dr. Gandi called upon the international community to put an end to the pains of the Palestinian people via the full implementation of the decisions of the international legitimacy including the right of Palestinian to self determination and establishment of an independent state on their homeland ands to free their hand towards development and progress.

HCFPPDA greets Dr. Gandi and the accompanying group and call all international figures seeking peace, social justice, and freedom to pay visits to the occupied territories to monitor the dramatic situation and to report to the international community under the slogan " We should stop silence ".

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