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Layan has a "court" appearance...in a military court not a civil court...one of multiple human rights violations here...on August 3rd  In the meantime she has been transferred to the notorious Damon Prison.  Her family is not allowed to visit her...Imagine you are a 20 year old in such a circumstance...Imagine you are her parents or siblings.....

She is being charged with being "an active student" which means she has peacefully protested against the illegal occupation by Israel.  Again, the occupation by Israel is in full violation of International Law.  In other words, Layan has taken part in peacefully protesting against international crime and for that the government which perpetrates the crime has arrested her.

The Israeli government routinely arrests anyone who dares to protest against their international crime in an attempt to break them and turn them into docile, quiet victims.

The following is what the California-based organization, womenprisoners.org reported on International Women's Day regarding the abuse, to put it mildly, of Palestinian women in Israeli prisons, and of the Damon prison specifically:

"Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrest leading up to their incarceration. The Israeli Occupation Forces brutally arrest Palestinian women during night raids, snatching many from their children and families.

During interrogations, the Israeli occupation authorities’ subject Palestinian women to extremely humiliating interrogation techniques, including prolonged stress positions, sleep deprivation, physical assault, and numerous threats, as well as depriving Palestinian women of their basic necessities and needs, often using them as leverage. Palestinian female prisoners are held in Damon prison under harsh living conditions that do not align with the bare minimum of adequate living standards. It should be noted that Damon prison is located outside the 1967 occupied territory, in violation of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that an Occupying Power must detain residents of the occupied territory in prisons inside the occupied territory"