(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A protest to the British Labor Federation, urging it to intervene immediately with the Colonial Office against the flogging of prisoners in Palestine jails, was despatched today by the Palestine Labor Federation.
The case which gave rise to the protest is that of the ten Communists being held in jail pending their deportation. Three of the prisoners, Kanevsky, Langman and Zitman, who declared a hunger strike, were given twelve strokes each by the jail authorities. Seven other prisoners who are held in jail on criminal charges have also joined the hunger strike.
A protest against the practice of flogging was also cabled by the Communist organization, Red Help, to the British Members of Parliament, Saclatvala and Lansbury and to the Anti-Imperalistic League in Berlin.
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