Overview

• The group was handed over at the Jordan border after an arrangement with Brazil’s embassy and was transported to Amman for medical evaluation.
• The detainees were seized when Israel intercepted the Global Sumud aid flotilla in international waters, an action Brazil condemns as illegal and arbitrary.
• They had been held at Ktzi'ot prison in the Negev and, according to Brazil’s foreign ministry, were transferred to the border without communication rights.
• Those released include federal deputy Luizianne Lins and four activists who had begun a hunger strike, with organizers saying all will receive medical checks in Amman.
• Rights group Adalah alleges denial of lawyers, water, medicine and toilets and other mistreatment in custody, claims that Israeli authorities deny.