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One: Family and/or Lawyers Visits
1.
To remove the glass/plastic barrier between prisoners and visitors;
2. To increase the period of
family visits to one hour;
3. To allow personal contact
with children, as in the past;
4. To allow all family
members and relatives to visit;
5. To allow brothers and
sisters to visit, as in the past;
6. To allow private visits
(without barriers);
7. To allow second and third
degree relatives to visit;
8. To relocate
detainees/prisoners in areas close to their residential areas;
9. To relocate prisoners who
are immediate relatives to the same prison;
10. To allow personal belongings and clothes to be brought during visits;
11. To allow prisoners to take photos with family members and children;
12. To allow family visits for Arab prisoners once every 6 months for at
least four hours;
13. To allow visitors to bring with them an unlimited number of
photographs of relatives;
14. To allow visitors to bring with them bed-covers, watches, Palestinian
head scarves, head wear, etc.;
15. To make family visits on Fridays, as in the past;
16. To bring in families to visit as soon as they arrive at the prison.
No delays either at the prison or at checkpoints;
17. To allow prisoners to take canteen food and drinks to the visit,
without limitations;
18. To allow prisoners to take to any kind of drinks to the visit and not
limit it to "Sprite";
19. To allow prisoners to be in plain clothes during the visit and not
restricted to uniforms of certain colors or design;
20. To allow prisoners' handwork to be given out at the visit, after
coordination;
21. To allow visitors to bring in all kinds of cigarettes, audio-tapes,
and video-tapes during the visit.
Two: Health Care / Treatment
1.
To develop and expand clinics and equip them for emergency cases
especially at Nafha prison and to ensure a practicing
physician is at the clinic 7 days a week;
2. To allow a Palestinian
prisoner to be present and working at the clinic;
3. To conduct surgery for
prisoners immediately (without the usual intentional delay);
4. To allow physicians from outside to be able to check prisoners and to
ease the procedures in doing so;
5. To widen the range of
physicians to include all specialties;
6. To allow dental surgery/ teeth implants, at the expense of prisoners,
by their own doctors;
7. To perform kidney, cornea and prosthetic transplants for those
prisoners who have been waiting for years;
8. To allow the purchase of
medical mattresses, pillows, shoes and some pharmaceuticals through the
canteen;
9. To solve all problems
related to the hospital in Ramleh;
10. An overall medical
checkup for every prisoner at least once a year;
11. An optician to visit to
every prison on a regular and constant basis; eye checkups for every
prisoner once every 6 months,
changing of glasses when needed, allow the use of eye lenses; and to
provide all needed supplies to solve health problems related to vision;
12. To allow prisoners to have the equipment necessary to measure blood
pressure and sugar levels where needed.
Three: Food
1.
To prepare and define a list of quantities of all sorts of food that
prisoners have the right to receive and to provide this list to
prisoners’ representatives;
2. To change the basket of vegetables and fruits and end the practice of
the administration taking part of it;
3. To allow prisoners to buy vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats of all
sorts on a monthly basis;
4. To allow prisoners in all prisons to prepare their own food according
to their customs and religions;
5. To give back kitchen equipment that was taken away from prisoners in
all "security" prisons’
6. To change old kitchen
utensils and replace them with new ones;
7. To open bakeries and allow
Palestinian prisoners to work at them; to allow bread to be brought in
during visits.
Four: Collective Punishment
1.
To end all collective punishments;
2. To end the policy of
fines;
3. To end the policy of confiscating personal belongings and punishing
prisoners by denying them family visits;
4. To return all money
confiscated from prisoners’ accounts permitting them to use them in
enhancing the health
care and the education of prisoners;
5. To compensate prisoners
for every item that was damaged intentionally through raids on
cell-blocks;
6. To define the maximum
isolation period, as a punishment, to a week and to provide humane
detention conditions in isolation
cells: access to toilets, a
washing sink, a two hour recreation period, to allow a fan, to allow books
and radio and canteen
products, not to handcuff prisoners inside the cells, to end the policy of
handcuffing prisoners while meeting the prison administration.
Five: Isolation
1.
To end all practices and policies of solitary confinement; allow
all those prisoners in isolation back to general sections
Six: Searching and Security Checks
1. To end the practice of
body search by hand and to restrict it to electronic scanning;
2. To stop searching children
14 years old and under during visits;
3. A complete end to strip
searches;
4. End night searches and the
practice of Matsada unit - dissolve it or end its services;
5. Not to handcuff prisoners
during the search;
6. Never to damage or
confiscate personal belongings while engaged in searches;
7. To stop searching
prisoners each time they leave to the recreation area or to prayers;
8. Security search be limited to only once a day maximum and not to force
prisoners outside the section during the search;
9. Security search to be
conducted during the recreation period;
10. To limit the overall, general, search to once every 6 months;
Seven: Phone Calls
1. To install pay phones in
prison sections and/or yards and/or cells or allow mobile phones in every
cell or for every prisoner;
2. To allow prisoners’
representatives to make phone calls to prisoners’ organizations and
lawyers and to Palestinian Ministry
of Prisoners Affairs;
3. To remove all
signal-distortion equipment - known to cause various health problems
including cancer.
Eight: Movement within each section and the recreation area
1.
To increase the recreation time to four hours a day, as used to be
the case;
2. To restore visits between
section and cells to day-long visits;
3. To leave cell doors within
each section open all day;
4. To restore the right of elderly, ill prisoners, those who spent over
ten years of imprisonment, and prisoners with special
needs to get to yards and recreation areas freely;
5. To allow university
students to chose recreation time suitable for them;
6. To allow prisoners
representatives to be able to visit sections, recreational areas, and to
be present at family visits
in order to be able to follow up on issues and concerns and solve any
problem without making this right dependant on
the mood of security guards;
7. To open the gate to the
recreational area every half an hour to enable prisoners to get to the
area or back to sections;
8. To allow freedom of
movement within each section without restricting the time or period;
9. To install water
pipes in each section;
10. To restore the weekly
general cleaning day as in the past;
11. To install water pipes in
the recreation area and the yard as used to be the case;
12. To restore the recreation
time from 15:00 to 17:00 and from 17:00 to 19:00;
13. To allow working
prisoners to stay at the recreation area until 20:00;
14. Not to transfer a prisoner from any prison before spending 2 years in
it, unless the prisoner applies for a transfer;
15. To cancel the policy of moving certain prisoners constantly around the
prisons, never settling in one;
16. To allow Friday Imams to be able to move from one section to another;
17. To allow having events, debates, celebrations in the recreation areas
and yards as in the past;
18. Freedom to transfer among
cells within one section without any sort of restriction;
19. To remove the ban on
practicing Karate during the recreation period;
Nine: Canteen facilities
1.
To allow buying from Arab sources and end the monopoly;
2. To cancel the additional
17% tax;
3. To unify the prices for
all prisons;
4. To end all restrictions on
the items allowed;
5. To form an investigation
committee to check on the legality of the 17% additional tax and on the
right of prisoners
to benefit from the profit of the canteen;
Ten: Tools, Instruments, private and general equipment
1.
To allow the following to be purchased at the canteen by every
prisoner: a light-bulb for reading, electronic dictionary
without restricting the brand, electric shaving-machine, and electric fan;
2. To install air ventilation
in the cells and section as well as air conditioning;
3. To install air
conditioning at the visiting area and waiting cells;
4. To provide electric
kettle;
5. To provide an electric
toaster for each cell;
6. To provide a small
refrigerator in each cell;
7. A small photocopier in
each section;
8. To install an Antenna for
the radio;
9. To allow winter jackets;
10. To allow waist belts;
11. To allow sport ropes;
12. To allow to have cameras
in each section and to be able to take collective photos;
13. To allow fruit knives in
each cell;
Eleven: Counting
1.
To allow prisoners in the upper beds not to step down at the
morning count and to limit to them to just raising
themselves up in their beds;
2. To be content with a show
of hands for those who are in toilets at the time of counting, or to pass
the cell and return to it later,
prisoners to try to avoid using the toilet around the time of the count,
unless it's urgent.
Twelve: Transfer, Travel and waiting (passing) sections
1.
To allow prisoners to have canteen products with them while being
transferred (canned food, etc.);
2. To be moved directly to the buses without being held and delayed in
waiting rooms;
3. To change seats in the buses to more comfortable ones;
4. Each prisoner to be handcuffed separately from others and to stop using
the plastic handcuffs and replace them with the metal ones;
5. To allow prisoners representatives to meet newly transferred prisoners
at the bus as they arrive;
6. To improve all conditions at the passing (waiting) sections in each of
Asqalan, Ramleh, and Birsheva prisons;
7. To remove the darkened
windows of the buses.
Thirteen: Working Facilities
1.
To increase the number of working prisoners in the various
facilities;
2. To restore kitchens,
laundries, and sewing and allow Palestinian prisoners to work at these
facilities;
3. To allow at least two
prisoners to work in the section (corridor) outside the cells till 22:30
and extend their
recreation time till 20:00;
4. To re-allow a prisoner to
work in the yard and recreation areas, as in the past, and to make
available a storage
room and a room for working and work tools;
5. To allow a prisoner to
work at the clinic;
6. To restore the special
recreation period for workers;
7. To raise payment for
workers;
8. To allow an additional
worker at the library;
9. To allow a worker to fix
electric equipment in each section as in the past;
10. To allow all tools for
hairdressing and to change them once every 6 months.
Fourteen: Education at Universities
1.
To allow prisoners to study at Palestinian, Arab, and International
Universities;
2. To end the policy of
punishing prisoners by denying them the right to continue their education;
3. To allow newspapers,
journals and magazines without any delay;
4. To allow purchasing
different electronic dictionaries not limited to one brand;
5. To allow all cells to have
access to a computer and not only students;
6. To allocate study rooms
and halls and to reopen all libraries;
7. To allow stationary
without limitation in type or quantities;
8. To allow photocopying of
research material and educational material.
Fifteen: General Demands
1. To return to prisoners all the cans (canned food) and cups and all that
has been confiscated in Asqalan and Nafha
after the last raids;
2. To allow handwork and to
be able to purchase all needed at the canteen or to be able to get it
during visits;
3. To remove asbestos from
the cells to improve ventilation in cells and sections;
4. To provide, once again,
what the administrations used to provide at their expense: tooth paste,
tooth brush, soap,
cleaning and hygiene provisions, etc.;
5. To make available lists of
IPS rules, in every section, in Arabic;
6. To increase the number of
allowed TV channels;
7. To re-install wooden
boards to all beds, change the beds each year, paint cells each year, and
to install sides to the beds;
8. To remove all male guards
from female sections;
9. To improve all conditions
and to meet all needs of imprisoned minors;
10. To end the use of arbitrary transfer of prisoners from one prison to
another;
11. To remove one bed in each cell to deal with overcrowding;
12. To end the use of the special classification of certain prisoners,
such as, "prisoners sentenced for serious offences"
and end all unjustified punishments against them and to allow them to be
able to work at various facilities in the prisons
13. To implement the Fourth Geneva Convention and all international human
rights standards and agreements;
14. To use only the buses to
transfer prisoners between prisons and/or to and from court hearings;
15. To allow visits on
special occasions as religious holidays
16.
To double the number and the period of visits during holidays;
17. To allow prisoners
to send out written material: diaries, poems, studies, prose, etc. during
visits;
18. To apply the same definition of life sentence as is applied to Israeli
prisoners and to seriously consider the provision of parole;
19. Not to interfere in Friday prayers and/or preaching and not to punish
preachers for whatever they say;
20. To allow hard covers for
books and never to remove them;
21. To separate shower area
from toilets;
22. To provide prosthetics
for those prisoners with amputations.
Also,
please check the memo to the EU Ambassador, Mr. Patrcik Renauld (Arabic
doc.),as well as our Call for Solidarity Campaign development. (Arabic
doc)
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