Marwan Barghouti, the former commander of the Fatah Tanzim currently serving five concurrent life sentences in an Israeli prison for the murders he ordered during the second intifada, is one of the highest-profile terror chieftains in Israeli custody. The attacks that Barghouti masterminded killed dozens, wounded scores more, and resulted in the untold suffering of countless innocent Israelis. But Barghouti is a celebrity in prison, and he’s used his status to receive a myriad of perks that a man with his lengthy list of victims must not receive. Most troublesome is the fact that while a maximum-security terror inmate, Barghouti has received special visitors and has been engaged in Palestinian political aspirations, even having his wife submit his name for the list of candidates running for the office of Palestinian Authority president. Shurat HaDin demands that this travesty of common sense and justice end immediately. In a letter written in the name of the parents of Ronen Landau, a seventeen-year-old teenager who was murdered by Barghouti’s men in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Giva’at Ze’ev neighborhood. “We demand an immediate end to the visits and benefits Marwan Barghouti receives at the expense of the blood of the Jewish terror victims,” Michal and Shmuel, Ronen’s bereaved parents stated. Shurat HaDin founder and president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner concurred “My clients insist the Israel Prison Service treat Barghouti the same as any other security prisoner serving a sentence for the serious crimes he committed,” Darshan-Leitner reaffirmed. Barghouti’s political aspirations were foiled when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas canceled the long-awaited and many-times-canceled legislative elections, actions that helped to ignite the May war with Hamas.
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