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Israeli court decides to check Oweisat externally before autopsy

Tuesday 22-May-2018

Israeli magistrate court in Rishon Lezion city in 1948 Occupied Palestine decided on Tuesday to conducting an external medical check for the body of martyr Aziz Oweista 53 who died in Israeli jails to figure out the reasons behind his death.

The director of the legal unit at Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission Iyad Misk said that the court will consider the results of the external check up and if the reasons are still not known they will do an autopsy.

The court’s decision provided that a Palestinian physician will attend the autopsy operation in case there is a need for that following a new court decision.

Oweisat a resident of Jabal al-Mukaber town south of Jerusalem was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Oweisat had suffered severe bleeding and a heart attack after being violently beaten by Israeli prison guards in Eshel prison on 2nd May.

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