The family of the Palestinian prisoner Bilal Diab 32 appealed on Sunday to the human rights institutions to speak up for their hunger-striking son in Israeli jails.
Diab’s family said their relative has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the third consecutive week in response to a renewed six-month administrative detention order issued by the Israeli prison authorities with neither charge nor trial.
The family added that Diab has been held in solitary confinement in the Israeli Megiddo lock-up so as to force the detainee to suspend his hunger strike.
On March 1 2012 Bilal had gone on a 77-day hunger-strike to protest administrative detention in Israeli jail.
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on allegedly secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial in barefaced contraventions of international laws and standards related to the rights of detainees.
