Beatings threats and deprivation of sleep moving from one cell to another and providing him with spoiled food previously eaten by rats and cockroaches in addition to constant psychological and physical pressure are all means of torture practiced by Israeli jailers against Palestinian student Omar Kiswani from Birzeit University in the West Bank.
Water strike
The lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner Club Maamoun Al-Hashim was surprised due to the extent of torture Kiswani was subjected to after meeting him on Wednesday inside the Ofer prison court near Ramallah.
The lawyer said that detainee Omar Kiswani from the village of Beit Iksa told the judge of the Israeli court in Ofer that he will continue his hunger strike announced eight days ago and that he has stopped drinking water since yesterday (27/3/2018) in protest at the tough conditions he is subjected to at the Maskobiya detention center such as interrogating him for long hours in addition to sleep deprivation.
Banning family visits
Al-Hashim added that the Israeli court extended Al-Kiswani’s detention for the third time in a row for six days at the pretext of completing his interrogation.
He pointed out that the order to prevent the lawyer from meeting Kiswani is still in place until April 1 2018 with the same applying to preventing his family from visiting him to increase pressure practiced against him during the interrogation in order to force him to confess.
Kidnapped by undercover gunmen
Omar Kiswani was kidnapped from inside the campus of Birzeit University by undercover Israeli forces who claimed to be journalists on March 7. He was arrested and taken for investigation.
