Marwan Barghouti subjected to “brutal” assaults in Israeli jail

A campaign calling for the release of Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti has said that he has been subjected to “brutal” assaults inside Israeli prisons, claiming that he was beaten three times in less than a month. In a statement, the Popular Campaign for the Release of Barghouti and Other Prisoners said that he had recently been subjected to new attacks while being held in isolation in Megiddo Prison in the north and Ramon Prison in the south, ahead of the 24th anniversary of his arrest. READ: Marwan Barghouti ‘brutally assaulted’ while in solitary confinement in Israeli prison Barghouti, a senior member of the Fatah movement, was arrested by Israel in April, 2002, and later convicted by the occupation state of […]