The Defense Ministry announced today that more than 1.500 Arab prisoners and detainees had been released from prisons in Judea and Samaria in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip during the past ten months. The announcement added that 953 Arabs remained in the prisons.
A Ministry spokesman said that half of those now in Judean and Samarian prisons were serving sentences. The others are being held pending investigations or on administrative detention orders. Among those released, 160 were either acquitted or freed after investigation. Some 500 completed administrative detentions and 650 either served their prison terms or paid fines, while 57 prisoners received pardons, the Ministry said.
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