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New Palestinian prisoner declares hunger strike

Sunday 14-October-2018

The Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Rimawi 26 declared an open-ended hunger strike in protest against his illegal detention in Israeli jails without charge or trial.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) affirmed that Rimawi arrested since August 2017 declared his strike in rejection of his administrative detention.

Rimawi whose two brothers are also imprisoned in Israeli prisons had already spent three years behind Israeli bars in different arrests.

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New Palestinian prisoner declares hunger strike

Tuesday 27-September-2016

RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Anas Shadid 19 declared hunger strike in protest against his illegal administrative detention the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed.

Shadid who is currently held in Ofer prison was sentenced to six months in administrative detention according to which he is held since his arrest last August without charge or trial.

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New Palestinian prisoner declares hunger strike

Thursday 21-February-2013

AL-KHALIL (PIC)– The captive Younis Hroub from of al-Khalil has declared a hunger strike protesting against his continued administrative detention human rights sources revealed.

The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs confirmed that the prisoner Hroub joined the four prisoners’ hunger strike two days ago to protest his continued arrest without charge or trial under the pretext of the secret file.

Large force of Israeli Elemaz unit specialized in repressing prisoners stormed yesterday section 6 where the prisoner is held and searched it destroying and confiscating prisoners’ belongings the ministry added.

Meanwhile PPS said on Thursday that the health situation of prisoner Maissara Abu Hamdiya 64 from al-Khalil has suddenly deteriorated where he was transferred to Soroka hospital.

PPS confirmed in its statement that the prisoner Abu Hamdiya suffers chronic swollen glands and throat problems where he lost 95% of his ability to talk and lost 10 kg of his weight in two weeks.

Noteworthy the prisoner has been arrested since 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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