Attorneys have been barred from visiting Israeli prisons to meet with their Palestinian clients due to accusations of 'transmitting information,' and guards have demanded to read legal documents. During the war in Gaza, the Israel Prison Service has made the lawyers targets as it tries to keep what's happening at the prisons under wraps
Prohibited from showing up for her job. There is no other way to describe the meaning of the document received by Palestinian lawyer Iman Awad. The commander of Ofer Prison signed it, Assistant Commissioner Vadim Goldstein, who had decided to deny her entry to the prison facility for a period of one month. But, she was only a secondary injured party in this story, as her Palestinian clients who were being held behind bars were prevented from having contact with their lawyer.
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