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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					13/02/2011 &#8211; 06:11 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">NABLUS, (PIC)&#8211; At a moment of  celebration in Egypt over freedoms attained after the ouster of the  30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak, several Egyptians remain captured by  Israeli occupation, whose new relations with Egypt have yet to unfold.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">According to the Ahrar prisoner studies  center, more than 20 Egyptians are being held in Israeli prisons under  conditions worse than Palestinians. Unlike many Palestinians, the  Egyptian prisoners are denied access to their families and even unable  to write to them for reassurance.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The lightest sentence served by them is  seven years, a statement by Ahrar says. Spread throughout prisons across  the occupied country, the majority hail from Sinai which shares borders  with Gaza and the Israeli occupation, it adds. They were detained while  conferring support to the Palestinians.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The captives&#8217; conditions are tragic, the  statement goes on to say. They are visited once or twice  yearly by the  Egyptian consulates who have so far only registered their names and  statements, treatment far different from that towards the six Egyptian  students the government rushed to rescue in a swap deal with spy Azzam  Azzam.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Ahrar center director Fouad al-Khafsh  expressed surprise at the Egyptian consulates&#8217; neglect of the Egyptian  POWs. Egypt has two representatives in the 1948-occupied Palestine as  well as an embassy in Tel Aviv.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The detainees have filed many petitions  amid demands to contact their families and bring clothing, but the  prison authority rejected requests time and time again saying that Egypt  itself was behind the banning-order.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Khafsh called on Egyptian media and the  bar association to turn attention to the country&#8217;s men jailed in Israel  after the revolution and changes in the Egyptian political regime.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s70DBgEBUV61B8MtzlfxQA%2bFoUFA1bYWrkNlX6r6EwN1oaUCuk4da07T%2ba0pWdUiaL8ETp3hZXNs10pb2bgBuV5J9Q2eSF7FQah3PG5F2xDgw%3d">Statement: Israel holding more than 20 Egyptians captive</a>.</p>
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