Today, Friday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said that the member of the central committee of the Fatah movement , the captive Marwan Al-Barghouti , today completes his 21st year in the Israeli occupation prisons, and begins his 22nd year in a row tomorrow.

The commission said that despite these long years that the prisoner, the leader Marwan Barghouti, spent behind bars, he is still and will remain steadfast, steadfast, defying the jailer, believing that freedom will inevitably come, and that the occupation will end and will not last long, and that the Palestinian people will fulfill their aspirations for freedom and independence. In the coming days.

The Commission added that the prisoner leader, Marwan Al-Barghouti, continues his struggle from within his family, despite the restrictions, repression, and strict prison procedures. He turned prisons into real universities and institutes that graduate regiments of heroic prisoners united against forced and deprivation, and supervises the educational and academic process and follows up his students, the struggling prisoners, with all his possessions. Strength, determination and persistence, recording many successes that all Palestinians are proud of.

In its narration of some of the stations of his career, the Commission indicated that “Marwan” and his nickname “Aba Al-Qassam” was born in 1959, in the town of Kober in the northwest of the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, and he was arrested for the first time in 1976, then the occupation re-arrested him for the second time in 1978, and for the first time. The third in 1983.

After his release in 1983, he joined Birzeit University, was elected president of the Student Council for three consecutive years, and worked to establish the Fatah Youth Movement, until the occupation re-arrested him again in 1984 for a short period, followed by his arrest in 1985, which lasted for 50 days, during which he was subjected to harsh interrogation. He was placed under house arrest and administratively detained in the same year.

In 1986, the occupation began chasing him, he was arrested and deported, and at this stage he worked with the martyr leader Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad, he was elected a member of the Revolutionary Council of the "Fatah" movement in the Fifth General Conference 1989, then he returned to the homeland in April 1994, and was elected Deputy to the martyr leader Faisal Al-Husseini, and Secretary of the Fatah movement in the West Bank. He was also elected in 1996 as a member of the Legislative Council for the Fatah movement, and he was the youngest of them. He won membership in the Central Committee in the last two conferences of the Fatah movement (the sixth and seventh). He also renewed his election; He is in prison, a member of the Legislative Council in 2006, and he is considered the first and oldest member of parliament to be detained in the occupation prisons. He is now in the new section, under difficult conditions, in Nafha Prison, which was opened recently after the extremist “Ben Ghafir” took over the Ministry of National Security.

Concerning the circumstances of his arrest, the Commission stated that on April 15, 2002, after a long and arduous pursuit, the occupation forces arrested him from the Al-Irsal neighborhood in Ramallah, and he was sentenced in 2004 to five life imprisonment for forty years, accompanied by his companion of his path and struggle, his pursuit companion, and his black box. The prisoner commander, Ahmed Al-Barghouti, nicknamed “The Frenchman”, who is sentenced to (13) life imprisonment in addition to 50 years.