The Law of Palestine like the Law of England, makes no discrimination between political and other prisoners, Dr. Drummond Shiels, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, said in the House of Commons to-day in r ply to Mr. Freeman (Labour) who had asked him whether he would consider the desirability of amending the prison rules and regulations in Palestine so that there should be no specially favourable treatment of political prisoners who had been accustomed to a higher standard of living, but that all political prisoners should be allowed the same privileges and amenities.
The Secretary of State – as at present advised, Dr. Shiels added, is not prepared to interfere with the regulations governing the treatment of prisoners in Palestine.
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