Jarboni … the oldest serving female prisoner in Israeli jails (report)

While the whole world is celebrating the International Women's Day, the Palestinian women are still suffering injustice and tyranny at the hands of an inhuman enemy.

Lina al-Jarboni, the oldest serving female prisoner in the Israeli jails, is extremely suffering from harsh detention conditions and is being deprived of her simplest rights, which exposes the duplicity of this unjust world which is calling for women's rights while the Palestinian women are horribly suffering in the Israeli jails.
 
Jarboni, who is being held in Hasharon prison, has been playing a leadership role among the Palestinian female detainees as she represents them in front of the prison administration and tries to defend their rights
 
Jarboni was born in November 1974 in Arraba town, and she was arrested on April 18, 2002 and sentenced to 17 years imprisonment but the sentence was reduced to 15 years after she appealed against the court's decision.
 
During her detention, Jarboni suffered from deliberate medical neglect which caused her an acute inflammation in her gallbladder and she had to wait for more than a year to get the permission of the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to undergo the badly needed surgery.

The devastated family of Jarboni said: "The hardest time of our daughter's detention was when she was excluded from the prisoner exchange deal in 2011," and added, "Her 70-year-old mother keeps visiting her in spite of her disease and suffering, hoping that one day her daughter will restore her freedom."



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