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Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)
P.O.B. 31811
Tel Aviv
Tel & fax: 03-5286050
Contact person: Hava Keller

WOFPP was established in May 1988 with the objective of helping female political prisoners who

struggle against the occupation. In the early years of WOFPP's activity, it dealt primarily with the torture and mistreatment of the prisoners.

These problems are now much less common, and WOFPP believes that its actions have helped to reduce the extent of the abuses. The female prisoners in Hasharon Prison, where nearly all female political prisoners are incarcerated, are a very close-knit group, exhibiting exceptional feelings of solidarity. WOFPP believes that the knowledge of its support has helped to make them so.

WOFPP sends lawyers to all prisons and detention facilities in which female political prisoners are held in order to monitor their conditions and help when needed. It keeps in touch with prisoners' families, and materially assists needy prisoners.

WOFPP periodically publishes a newsletter in English which is translated into French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Japanese. When necessary, WOFPP sends urgent letters and asks sympathizers to write letters of protest to the authorities.

In the Taba agreement, a pardon for all women prisoners and detainees was agreed upon, but israel refused to release five of the prisoners, and all of the wofpp efforts in this matter have been to no avail. these prisoners who were pardoned refused to take advantage of the release out of solidarity with their "unpardoned" friends, so that in fact all of them still remain in jail. israel has also failed to release the female detainees.

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