The Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority said that the administration of Al-Damon prison is taking new escalatory steps against 13 female prisoners.

The Commission explained, in a statement issued today, Sunday, that the female prisoners were distributed into three rooms, so that there would be a new transfer of rooms, and suddenly every week, with the aim of disturbing the female prisoners all the time, and creating instability in their lives inside the prison.

She pointed out that what the female prisoners are suffering from most now is the severe, unbearable cold. The rooms are very cold, and the windows remain open all the time, amid a great shortage of clothes and blankets, with the cold of winter.

She added: The break is at seven in the morning every day for an hour, and the female prisoners have requested more than once to change the time of the break, so that it is at noon and not early, to benefit from the sun and avoid the cold weather in the morning, but the occupation officers insist on taking them out at seven in the morning as a kind of provocation.

She said: The treatment of the prison guards is very bad, especially when the female prisoners go out to visit their lawyers or to the clinic, where they tie their hands behind their backs, blindfold them, and forcefully push the female prisoner forward, or drag her painfully.

She continued: Recently, one of the prison guards entered the female prisoners' rooms while they were sleeping at night without permission, which greatly disturbed the female prisoners, especially since they sleep without headscarves, so for a few days they have been sleeping with headscarves, in anticipation of any sudden entry by them.

She noted that there is a provocative procedure that is repeated every Friday, where the occupation officer summons three or four female prisoners and puts them in a very cold cell for an hour or two, and then returns them to the section in which they are being held.

For days now, the prison guards have been bringing meals to the section, putting them aside for about two hours, and then distributing them to the rooms. They are cold, and the food is flavorless and in small quantities.