Palestinian prisoner Abdul Karim Rimawi has been denied visits with his newborn son, who was conceived through artificial insemination with his sperm smuggled out of the prison, reported the Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies.

His wife, Lida Rimawi, gave birth to the baby boy, Majd, at the Razan Medical Centre in Nablus, where doctors have overseen similar reproductive procedures for other Palestinian prisoners and their families.

The prison authorities stated that as the child was conceived and born while Rimawi was imprisoned, they did not recognize his paternity and would not recognize his status as a father of a child from sperm smuggled out of prison.

confirmed a movement’s leaders captive in a prison whiff on Saturday that the prison administration whiff prevented prisoner Abdul Karim Rimawi to visit his son, who was born in the wake of smuggling sperm and transplant successful, confirmed manage the prison that prevention comes in the context of the absence of son of the prisoner Before the arrest, and they did not acknowledge paternity of sperm smuggled from prison.

On his part, the captive editor Rafat Hamdouna director of the Center of prisoners of studies that this move by the management of prisons is unacceptable and constitute a case of punishment is unsurpassed on the prisoners, who were able to achieve their hopes and wishes reproduction of their sentences high, and added Hamdouna that visitation between father and son is guaranteed in accordance with international conventions, and prisoners will resort to the courts and the law to stop the move unacceptable and unexplained.

The Hamdouna added that there are approximately 18 prisoners waiting for their children by sperm smuggled in the coming months, and nearly 60 other sperm reserved for prisoners of their wives under treatment, and do to prepare for a vaccination and childbirth.

Sami Hussein, the director of the Follow-up Department at the Palestinian Prisoners Society, was seized by Israeli forces on Monday, September 2 at Jaba checkpoint near al-Ram and taken to an unknown location.

Hussein, 44, was recently released from Israeli custody after over a year in administrative detention without charge or trial. He has been detained on numerous occasions and served over 23 years in occupation prisons.

He was first imprisoned for four years, and then after his release, he was seized again and was imprisoned for 15 years, then from 2005 to the present, he has been repeatedly held without charge or trial under administrative detention.

Fouad Al-Khuffash of the Ahrar centre for prisoners’ studies said that the Israeli Prison Service is again pursuing a policy of transferring Palestinian prisoners from one prison to another in order to disrupt prisoners lives and create chaos in the prisons, and in particular to destabilize the prisoners’ movement.

On September 3, Sheikh Jamal Abu el-Hija and his son were moved from Eshel prison to Shata prison; Mahmoud Issa was moved from Gilboa prison to Eshel; and Abdullah Barghouthi was moved from Shata prison to Eshel. Khuffash noted that Mahmoud Issa has not been kept in one prison for more than three months since his release from solitary confinement on May 17, 2012 as part of the agreement to end the mass prisoner Karama hunger strike.

In addition, Israeli forces have raided a number of prison blocs and units in the preceding days. On Monday, Israeli police stormed Section 1, Room 8 of Ramon prison, under the pretext of searching for mobile phones, and confiscated unrelated tools and electronic devices belonging to prisoners.

Amina Tawil of the Center for Prisoners’ Studies reported that in the past month there were 9 sudden raids of prisoners’ units, including 4 different sections in Negev prison, Section 5 Room 1 in Gilboa Prison, Section 12 in Nafha prison, Section 1 Room 1 in Ramon prison, rooms in Eshel prison, and Room 14 in Ashkelon prison. In each occasion prisoners’ belongings were ransacked and confiscated. The Center stated that these raids are part of an attempt to disorient and break prisoners’ will in order to disrupt and discourage prisoner organizing.

In addition, it was reported on Monday, September 2 that Nafha prison administration announced that prisoners serving sentences of under seven years will be transferred temporarily to the Negev prison, beginning with prisoners of the Fateh movement in section 10. The prison administration said that this is due to repairs, but the Palestine Center for Policy Studies reported that prisoners inside Nafha said that the primary goal of this is the search for mobile phones. In the same context, the Negev prison administration also announced the transfer of some prisoners to other sections under the pretext of repairs, as well as the closure of three sections in Negev prison and the transfer of those there to Ashkelon prison.