Abu Sisi faces 21-year sentence

A Zionist court has sentenced the Palestinian engineer Dirar Abi Sisi to a 21-year prison over its anti-Israeli resistance record.

Sisi has been held in Israeli jails since the Israeli intelligence kidnapped him from the Ukraine in 2011.  

Israel's Southern District Attorney’s Office has asked the Beersheba District Court to impose the sentence, the PIC said.

During a session held Sunday, Sisi was convicted of "belonging to Hamas's armed wing al-Qassam Brigades and leading the establishment of Hamas’s equivalent of a war college to systematically improve Hamas commanders’ fighting tactics."

The court is expected to issue its verdict in the case at the next hearing on June 14, according to Hebrew media sources.

45-year-old Dirar Abu Sisi is a Palestinian engineer, who is married to the Ukrainian woman Veronica. He was kidnapped from the Ukraine during a visit and sent to Israel on the 18th of February 2011. Since his kidnapping, he has remained incarcerated in Israeli prisons under extremely poor conditions; he is currently suffering from debilitating health conditions and psychological trauma.

He has endured torture, humiliation and inhumane treatment from Israeli prison authorities. Israeli occupation authorities are also preventing his Ukrainian wife and children from visiting or speaking to him.