Palestinian prisoner Assem Barghouthi has been made to endure harsh investigation in the Israeli Mascoubiya lock-up.
Lawyer Maamoun al-Hashim from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Assem has been exhaustively interrogated almost around the clock. As a result he has gone sleepless for days.
The military court at the Mascoubiya jail extended is remand for another 12 days pending further investigation. He has also been denied the right to meet with his lawyer.
The Israeli court also extended the detention of his 17-year-old brother for another five days.
Assem’s father Omar aged 66 and his brother Assef have been held in Israeli custody from the day their brother Salah was fatally shot by the Israeli military on December 12 2018.
Assem Barghouhti a Palestinian in his 30s was arrested a couple of days earlier in the Abu Shukheidem village northwest of Ramallah.
Barghouti from the West Bank village of Kober has been accused of taking part in an anti-occupation attack carried out in partnership with his slain brother Salah near Ofra settlement.
His father has been held for a total of 28 years in Israeli occupation jails. His uncle Nael is the longest-serving detainee in the world.
