A mass escape of Arab prisoners held at Ramleh Prison, Israel’s largest institution of the kind, was prevented last night, it was announced here today by Aryeh Nir, commander of Israeli prisons.
Mr. Nir said that a routine check had disclosed that iron bars had been cut in one cell, and that the electric lines in the prison had been tampered with in such a way that a short-circuit might have occurred.
Many of the Arab prisoners at Ramleh are being held there “for security reasons.” Two of the men in the cell where the bars had been severed, Mr. Nir said, are serving long sentences for “serious acts against the security of the country.” One of those prisoners had been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment, the other to an 11-year term.
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