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Jordanian prisoner’s brother ends hunger strike

Thursday 1-December-2016

The Jordanian citizen Shaheen Merie whose brother Muneer is held in Israeli jails ended his hunger strike after his family get a permission to visit their imprisoned son.

Speaking to the PIC reporter Shaheen affirmed that his family managed to get an Israeli visa for a week in order to visit Muneer in his detention.

The family will be able to directly meet Muneer without a glass window for two hours he continued.

Shaheen declared hunger strike near the Jordanian Foreign Ministry for 22 days as he urged its officials to secure a visit to his brother Muneer who is being frequently attacked by Israeli prison guards.

Muneer was arrested in April 2003 and is serving five life sentences on charges related to alleged anti-occupation attacks in the West Bank.

The prisoner along with other imprisoned Jordanians had gone on a hunger strike for more than 100 days calling for seeing members of their families but his parents died before he saw them.

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