Israel's Ofer military court on Tuesday unjustly sentenced female prisoner Sumoud Karajeh, a 23-year old young woman from Safa village in Ramallah city, to 20 years in prison.
This arbitrary court verdict was taken against Karajeh after she spent three years in detention on allegation of stabbing an Israeli soldier at Qalandiya checkpoint.
Her brother said the military judge in Ofer court asked Karajeh to apologize and plead for mercy from the court in order to have her sentence commuted, but she refused that and considered the court illegal.
In another incident, the Israeli prosecution bureau admitted, in a report published on Tuesday, that the Palestinian women in Israeli jails are living under very harsh incarceration conditions.
The report included a survey of the imprisonment conditions of Palestinian prisoners in 49 jails administrated by the Israeli prison authority, courts, or the police.
The report noted that Sharon jail is the worst because of the many violations committed against Palestinian women by its administration like the lack of medical treatment and the maltreatment of prisoners.
According to the report, a female prisoner in this jail suffered for three week from a severe gastrointestinal problems and instead of taking her to a doctor, the jailers shackled her to a bed. As a result of this situation, she relieved herself on the bed.
