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Kan'an Association for Palestine Observes Palestine Prisoner's Day
  Written By: (YEMEN POST STAFF) 
  Article Date:
April 21, 2008 

 

 

Kan'an Association for Palestine organized on April 17an oratory festival to mark the Palestrina prisoner's day.

In her speech, Minister of Human Rights Huda Al-Ban stressed the importance of issue and hinted that the prisoner's day is a historic day especially when it is a symbol for adherence to the home's soil.

Al-Ban called on the United Nations and the international community to seek a suitable mechanism that ensures the protection of Palestinian people and puts a limit for the Israeli imperial and colonial practices.

For his part, the association's chairman Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh indicated reviewed the wrongful practices and situation in which Palestinian prisoners live in Israeli prisons.

Saleh revealed that there are over 12,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons where they are subjected to suppressive acts, maintaining the day is timed with the sixth anniversary for the association's establishment.

Deputy Head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Abdul Rahim Maluh delivered speech in which he praised the role Yemen, people and government, plays in support of Palestinian people and prisoners.

Further, the participants watched a documentary film in which the sufferings of prisoners were depicted.