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Hamas inmate gets solitary for radio interview
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAbdallah Barghouti, an imprisoned commander of Hamas’s armed wing who is serving 67 life terms, has been placed in solitary confinement for speaking to a radio station, Israel’s prisons authority says.
Barghouti gave an interview to Hamas radio using a mobile telephone “smuggled into the prison where he is being held, and has been placed in an isolation cell,” spokeswoman Sivan Weizman says.
The duration of his stay in solitary confinement has yet to be determined, she added.
Barghouti was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 67 life terms over attacks that killed 66 and wounded hundreds more in Israel.
— AFP
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