Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) condemned the arbitrary detention of Mufdi Saada and his three brothers by the Palestinian Authorities (PA) for a month, without any legal justification. Moreover, it continues their detention despite the issuance of release orders for two of them, Makin and Mujahid.
AOHR UK deplored the refusal of the Palestinian intelligence service to implement the release orders of the two brothers on bail. This intransigence violates the independence of the judiciary, and all international laws and regulations.
AOHR UK appealed to the donor countries of the PA to press for the release of the Saada brothers, who told the judge that they have been “subjected to severe torture inside their detention facility,” according to their family.
The organisation condemned the PA’s systematic use of torture and degrading treatment against hundreds of detainees.
The arbitrary rearrest of Mufdi Saada by the PA -who was politically arrested 9 times- and the suspension of his salary by the Ministry of Education is an illegal and unacceptable behavior against Mufdi and his family, which reflects the security coordination policy with the Israeli occupation.
The same arbitrary measures were also applied with Mufdi’s brothers, Munadil and Mujahid, both of whom are released prisoners from the occupation prisons. Munadil, spent 15 years in the occupation prisons, while the PA arrested him twice in a row, in coordination with the occupation’s efforts to increase the suffering of Palestinians.
AOHR UK called on the international community and international organisations to pressure the Palestinian Authority to release all political detainees in its prisons, and to immediately end the security coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities.
