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Nablus
05-05-2006, 03:53 PM
Prisoner Samar Sbaih delivers her baby “prisoner” Baraa
This is not the first time Lawyer of the Mandela Institute Buthayna Duqmaq stands to witness duly at first hand the Israeli violations of male and female Palestinian and Arab prisoners rights. Lawyer Duqmaq viewed her role being next to Prisoner Samar while delivering her first baby at the Me’ir hospital as a humanitarian and patriotic act that Lawyer Duqmaq and Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners are eager to assume.

Lawyer Duqmaq stated “what I saw at the hospital today prompts me to remind the international community and particularly the international human rights groups of the dire need to intervene immediately and place pressure on the Israeli government to put an end to its suppressive practices against our male and female prisoners.” Lawyer Duqmaq of Mandela Institute believes that it is the right of female Palestinian prisoners to give birth like all other mothers and she also believes that it is a shame on the world community who claims to be advocating for democratic practices to allow a situation whereby a mother is made to give birth while leg and handcuffed!!!

Lawyer Duqmaq went to visit Prisoner Sbaih on Sunday 30 April 2006 at Me’ir hospital to be by her side during delivery. Lawyer Duqmaq has maintained contact and has been visiting prisoner Sbaih since she was arrest while in her third month of pregnancy to follow up on her medical and health conditions. Mandela Institute had previously submitted a request through the office of Lawyer Jonathan Kuttab to the Israeli High Court of Justice and the Israeli Prison Authority requesting that Sbaih’s mother and or husband be by her side during delivery and also to untie Prisoner Sbaih during birth giving. However, Lawyer Duqmaq saw no evidence that the Israeli authorities had positively responded to the request. Prisoner Sbaih was admitted to the hospital while leg and handcuffed and remained so when she was taken into the delivery room!!!

Even though the Israeli guards escorting prisoner Sbaih prevented Lawyer Duqmaq from entering the delivery room, Lawyer Duqmaq was able to talk to Sbaih in the waiting area just before she was admitted into the delivery room. Lawyer Duqmaq described Prisoner Sbaih as enjoying high morale even though she was aware beforehand that she will deliver through a cesarean operation. Sbaih extended her greetings to all Palestinian mothers and to all those who stood by her side during the difficult moments of delivery. Sbaih had hoped that she would at least be untied during delivery as she was promised by the Talmund Prison Administration.

Commenting on the delivery of Baraa and the suffering that prisoner Sbaih went through, Lawyer Duqmaq stated that the birth of prisoner Baraa has increased the number of baby prisoners in Israeli jails to three. The three children are being held along with their mothers under extremely difficult and unhealthy detention and nutritional conditions. Those children are deprived of the basic rights and subjected to severe circumstances of suppression like their mother prisoners. In addition, Lawyer Duqmaq stated that dozens of imprisoned mothers are deprived the right to embrace and hug their children during the visitation.

It is worth reporting that prisoner Sbaih is married to her cousin Rasmi Sbaih who has been under administrative detention since 25 June 2005. Prison Sbaih had arrived from Jabalia camp in the Gaza strip to join her husband in Tulkarem after six years of engagement. Prisoner Sbaih is a graduate of the Islamic University in Gaza and holds a Diploma in Sharia (Religious Law). She was arrested on 29 September 2005 while in her third month of pregnancy. One day following her arrest, her husband Rasmi was placed under administrative detention at the Ketziot prison in Negev.

Prisoner Sbaih is still at Mei’r hospital in Kfar Sava along with her first baby Baraa as she is still subjected to medical supervision since she delivered through a caesarean operation.



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