Sunday, December 23, 2007

Maan News: "Palestinian prisoners in Guinness Book of Records"

According to something called "Answerbag," Rudolph Hess was imprisoned for 46 years. Other examples include 50-year imprisonments.
The director of the statistics department in the Palestinian ministry of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners, Abdul-Nasser Farawnah released on Sunday a comprehensive report about the long term Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails showing that many of them have entered the Guinness Book of Records.

According to the report, Palestinian prisoner Sa'id Al-Ataba has been detained for more than 30 years which is the longest imprisonment in the world. No other political prisoner had served such a long period ; Nelson Mandela had served 26 years, and Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of former US president John Kennedy served 28 years in prison.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a "political prisoner"? I guess that contextualizes all the claims about the Palestinian prisoners!
The report also adds that 232 Palestinian prisoners have already served more than 15 years in Israeli jails including 73 who have served more than 20 years. According to the report, there was no such collective political imprisonment in the history of other peoples of the world.
It would be interesting to check a current Guinness Book of Records. Anyone?

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