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The organization that represents Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has, on April 30, 2003, issued a document expressing the political demands of prisoners being subjected to brutal treatments and outrageous sentences. In a detailed statement, representatives of jailed Palestinians in all Israeli prisons have issued a 15-point guideline expressing the demands of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. In these guidelines, Palestinian prisoners stated that their imprisonment is a political one by nature, given that they are involved in a legitimate resistance to Israeli occupation, and in an ongoing struggle to pursue and fulfill Palestinians’ legitimate national objectives. They urge the Palestinian people and their various political organizations, in general, and the Palestinian Authority and its institutions, in particular, to pressure the Israelis to implement a quick and immediate release without giving consideration to their organizational affiliation, seniority status, regional background and/or the charges made against them, along with duration of their imprisonments. They also warned that delays to address their just causes would be considered inconsistent with the general legitimate goals of the Palestinian people and with the nature of their just efforts that expresses, among other things, the Palestinians’ need for liberty and independence from Israel’s repressive occupation. The prisoners also expressed their general concerns with the upcoming political negotiations, urging the Palestinian representatives to maintain their commitments to the fundamental and just national goals of the Palestinian people and not to allow themselves to be pressured into accepting plans that are not consistent with the interests of the Palestinian people or reflective of their just and legitimate demands, mostly of which have been evidently supported internationally.
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