Israel releases 200 Palestinian prisoners
The Israeli authorities on Saturday released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the second phase of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
The Israeli authorities on Saturday released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the second phase of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
Under the provisions of the bilateral Agreement on Consular Access 2008, such lists are exchanged every year on 1st January and on 1st July.
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A total of 376 prisoners received training in 12 trades in five district jails in the Ayodhya zone. In this, 155 prisoners were trained in District Jail Barabanki, 84 in Gonda, 30 in Bahraich, 93 in Ambedkar Nagar, and 14 in Ayodhya.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that all prisoners, released on emergency parole by the state high-powered committees constituted on its order during the Covid pandemic, will have to surrender within 15 days.
The batch of pardoned inmates included 36 those who completed 2/3rd term, 5 male prisoners who completed 60 years of age, and 10 others who are financially weak but completed term but unable to pay fine in cash.
According to sources in the state correctional services, a nodal officer has already been appointed to conduct the trial through direct link to the court from the online correctional facility. The nodal officer will coordinate with the judiciary, the Centre and the state.
One of the suggestions made by the experts for reducing the overcrowding in jails is that UTPs arrested for offences where the maximum sentence is 7 years or less, should be forthwith released on PR Bond, when unable to fulfill the monetary or ‘property’ bail condition, the HC bench observed.
The police identified one of the men as Zakaria Zubeidi, a resident of the West Bank city of Jenin and high-profile militant leader of the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising of 2000-2005
“This is a great heroic act, which will cause a severe shock to the Israeli security system and will constitute a severe blow to the army and the entire system in Israel,” said Daoud Shehab, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad.
