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Prosecutors consider easing Yigal Amir's prison conditions

By JPOST.COM STAFF

JANUARY 3, 2011 14:32

State prosecutors were examining the possibility of easing the conditions of Yigal Amir, late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, it was announced on Monday.

Among other conditions being discussed, the prosecutors were considering allowing Amir to meet with another prisoner every two weeks. He has been held in solitary confinement for the past 15 years.

The proposal was brought by Amir's lawyers in a discussion of his solitary confinement in the Petah Tikva District Court.

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