An Israeli prosecutor on Tuesday filed a new indictment against Palestinian journalist Mohamed al-Qeiq who is supposed to be released.
Accordingly a court hearing will be held for him today in the military court of Ofer.
His wife Fayha Shalash said that the new indictment was filed 10 days before her husband’s release describing the step as “a dirty attempt to retain him in detention for as long as possible.”
Shalash told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the new charges could be related to Qeiq’s participation in marches in solidarity with prisoners and martyrs.
Prisoner Qeiq had staged for the second consecutive time an open-ended hunger strike on February 6 before he extracted a pledge last month from his jailers to end his administrative detention in mid-April.
He launched his hunger strike after he was ordered to administrative detention following 22 days of interrogation.
This was his second hunger strike against administrative detention. In 2016 he refused food for 94 days to demand his freedom winning his release in May 2016.
Later on January 15 he was arrested anew at Beit El crossing after his participation in a march organized in protest at Israel’s detention of Palestinian martyrs from Bethlehem.
