Jordanian national Shaheen Mer’i announced his decision to go on an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with his brother Muneer tortured in an Israeli jail.
“I took the decision as a means to pressurize the Foreign Ministry and Jordanian Embassy in Israel to urge the Israeli authorities to cease heavy beating and mistreatment against my brother who has lost consciousness quite frequently.”
Shaheen insisted on keeping up his hunger strike until the promises made by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to take action as regards his brother’s case see the day.
Recently the Israeli wardens stormed Mer’i’s prison cell and subjected him to heavy beating after which he repeatedly lost consciousness.
Following the move the National Committee for Detained and Missing Jordanians in Israeli Jails issued a statement condemning the torture perpetrated by the Israeli prison authorities against Mer’i among other detainees in Gilboa jail.
The committee called on the Jordanian Government and Foreign Ministry to keep tabs on the case and take the necessary measures to cease such brutal practices perpetrated behind Israeli prison bars.
It further called for exerting pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities so as to allow family visits for Jordanian prisoners.
Jordanian national Muneer Mer’i was sentenced to five back-to-back life sentences in Israeli jails.
