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were imprisoned as criminals or for participating in illegal protests. On June 17, 1930, Fuad Hijazi, ‘Ata Al-Zeer, and Mohammad Khaleel Jamjoum who participated in the
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fortress. The Ottomans used it at various times as a government building, prison, army barracks, and arms warehouse.
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were executed there by hanging by the British authorities. Many were imprisoned during the
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The Storyteller of Jerusalem. The life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948
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in Acre Prison to become the first post war ‘martyrs’ of the
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to the Baháʼí shrines in Haifa and Bahji, outside Akko.
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A room in the prison was occupied for some months by
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