Only fourteen of the 100 Jewish prisoners who were on a four-day hunger strike last week at Acre jail will be released on bail, Sir Cunliffe-Lister, the Colonial Minister, stated today in the House of Commons.
The Minister announced that the strike has ended. The fourteen who may be released are still detained because no suitable bail was furnished.
The prisoners, who were arrested for illegally entering the country, will be placed in two classifications—those who had already completed their jail sentence and those who still have to serve the terms to which they were sentenced as illegal immigrants. The first will be ##leased after posting individual $500 bail bonds.
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