To: [email protected][[email protected]]; [email protected][[email protected]] From: PMW Bulletin <pmw©palwatch.ccsend.com> on behalf of PMW Bulletin <[email protected]> Sent: Wed 4/24/2013 1:30:19 PM Subject: PA vows to continue paying salaries to prisoners - among them terrorists Bulletin April 24, 2013 PA vows to continue paying salaries to prisoners - among them terrorists PA Deputy Minister: "Salaries and allowances to Palestinian prisoners will not be stopped, whatever the cost may be. The prisoners are our joy." Head of Prisoners' Club: "When salaries are paid to those working in government offices and institutions, they will also be paid to the prisoners." nnp .4)._aJwato Pia rran_a_spr, fl= '71,:;12c._,(1-adf. by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik In recent months, both PA Deputy Minister of Prisoners' Affairs and the head of the Prisoners' Club have reiterated that prisoners' salaries are high priority for the PA and are treated and paid like all salaries to PA civil servants. Palestinian Media Watch's reports on the PA's payment of salaries to prisoners, among them terrorists, have generated debates in both Norway and the UK. The PA Deputy Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Ziyad Abu Ein responded to the possibility of losing donor funding due to PMW reports exposing these payments. He stressed that "the prisoners are our joy": EFTA_R1_00546345 EFTA02034582