Alarm bells have been sounded over the sharp deterioration rocking the health status of hunger striker Shaheen Mer’I the brother of Jordanian prisoner Muneer Mer’I held in an Israeli jail.
Shaheen has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the 6th day running outside the headquarters of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to protest the apathy maintained by official authorities as regards his brother’s incarceration in an Israeli prison.
Shaheen took the decision to pressurize the Jordanian Foreign Ministry and authorities to take urgent action and follow up on his brother’s case.
Human rights sources said hunger striker Shaheen has lost weight and has been through balance disorders.
Detainee Muneer Mer’I has been held in the Israeli Gilboa lock-up where he has frequently fallen in faints.
The Jordanian national called on the Jordanian authorities to assume their duties as regards his case and to allow his family to visit him in jail.
Over the past 14 years the prisoner has not had contact with his family members except for once in 2007.
Mer’I’s family threatened to go on a mass hunger strike in case the Jordanian Foreign Ministry does not take urgent action.
