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Nael Barghouti: World's longest-serving political prisoner freed from Israeli jail
27 February 2025 10:43 GMT
Nael Barghouti, the world's longest-serving political prisoner and the “dean” of Palestinian detainees, has been freed from an Israeli jail after spending nearly two-thirds of his life behind bars.
The 67-year-old was released on Thursday as part of the captive exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.
Barghouti, known among Palestinian prisoners as "Abu al-Nour", spent 45 years in Israeli custody, including 34 consecutive years, making him the world's longest-serving political prisoner, according to the 2009 Guinness World Records.
He was freed by Hamas in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange and returned to live in his home town of Kobar, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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