Ma’an News Agency, which I quote frequently on here to show their, err, creativity with the truth, are at their creative best with this report:
The director of the statistics department in the Palestinian ministry of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners, Abdul-Nasser Farawnah released on Sunday a comprehensive report about the long term Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails showing that many of them have entered the Guinness Book of Records .
According to the report, Palestinian prisoner Sa’id Al-Ataba has been detained for more than 30 years which is the longest imprisonment in the world. No other political prisoner had served such a long period ; Nelson Mandela had served 26 years, and Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of former US president John Kennedy served 28 years in prison.
As David Bogner (my source for this story) posted on his blog
For what it’s worth, here’s a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being ‘sentenced’ to his record setting ‘term of incarceration’… served, apparently, in a long, wooden subterranean cell:
Heh.
