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(7) Ending strip searches for visiting family members.
(8) Terminating shackling prisoners during family and attorney visits, as well as when hospitalized for medical care.
(9) Fulfilling prisoners' right to education.
(10) Ending all severe, disproportional punishments.
(11) Ending violations of other basic rights, including attorney visits during ongoing investigations and restricting judicial oversight.
PHR-I "supports the prisoners' struggle and their demand for a full respect of their human rights. We are acting on several levels in order to make sure that the prisoners' rights are maintained in the course of the hunger strike.""PHR is making a significant effort to treat and represent people whose medical condition is the worst, and whose right to health and appropriate treatment is being violated behind prison walls."
Nearly one-third of uncharged Palestinian administrative detainees have been held from six months to a year. Another third endured one to two years of incarceration.
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