Amnesty International calls on Israel to return the body of a Palestinian prisoner


Amnesty International called on Israel to return the body of Palestinian Walid Daqqa, who died yesterday, Sunday, while being held in an Israeli prison after a long struggle with cancer.
“It is painful for Walid Daqqa to die in an Israeli prison, despite many calls for his urgent release on humanitarian grounds after he was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2022 and the end of his original sentence,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International.

She added: “The Israeli authorities must now return Walid Daqqa’s body to his family without delay so that they can bury him in a peaceful and decent atmosphere and allow them to mourn him without fear.”

A spokesman for the Israeli Prison Service has not yet responded to requests for comment. The Prison Service had previously said that all its prisoners were being held “in accordance with the provisions of the law.”

The organization said that an Israeli court sentenced Daqqa to life imprisonment in 1987 after convicting him of leading a group that kidnapped and killed Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam, which Daqqa denied.
The human rights organization said that his conviction was based on emergency laws in Britain, which have a lower level of proof requirements compared to Israeli criminal law.

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