The political prisoners have renewed their hunger strike, according to a letter addressed today by the Central Committee of the Red Aid Society to Sir John Chancellor, High Commissioner of Palestine. The Committee, in its letter, declares that the 43 political prisoners resumed the hunger strike, which was suspended a fortnight ago after ten days of abstention from food, when promises made by the government were not kept.
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, the letter says, on behalf of the government prison committee, had assured the Communists that the government had agreed not to subject two of the Arab political prisoners to hard labor and to provide the other prisoners with special treatment.
The prison in Acre where political prisoners are housed, is also the scene of a renewed hunger strike.
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