31.   As a wave of disturbances in jails throughout the country gradually ended, only the Corfu prisoners had refused to surrender by Saturday.

32.   But human rights activists argue that the move will have little impact because prisoners have already refused to take part in the recreational activities.

33.   The prisoners then refused to return to their cells.

34.   Two prisoners refused to sign the Israeli security pledge and were kept behind bars, they said.

35.   Twenty other Palestinian women prisoners have also refused to be freed in solidarity with the other female inmates whose release has been opposed.

36.   Of those, only three prisoners have refused food almost continuously from the start.

37.   MP Declan Bree said the republican prisoners there had refused to talk to them from behind a perspex screen as required by the prison authorities as a security measure.

38.   Several hundred prisoners refused to go to Jericho or sign an oath renouncing violence.

39.   Some prisoners refused to testify because they feared for their lives, she said.

40.   The Mandela Institute for human rights said the prisoners had refused to sign a form pledging to see out their sentences in Gaza.