The Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies (PPCS) has said that Israel’s persistence in detaining Palestinian prisoner Mansour Shahatit 34 years old from Dura town in al-Khalil despite his difficult health and psychological conditions confirms “the size of its sadism and its disregard for humanity dignity.”
In a press release the center accused Israeli jailers of pursuing a slow death policy against prisoner Shahatit who suffers from serious mental illness and amnesia and can barely recognize his fellow prisoners.
According to spokesman for the center Riyadh al-Ashqar Shahatit has been in detention since 2003 and he had no health problems when he was arrested.
“He was exposed to severe torture and beating which led him to suffer from irregular heartbeat and shortness of breath” Ashqar said.
The spokesman added that the Israeli prison service (IPS) deliberately neglected the health suffering of prisoner Shahatiti and locked him up in an isolation cell for a long time instead of providing him with proper treatment which worsened his health and psychological conditions.
He also denounced the IPS for refusing to give Shahatit early release due to his health status after he spent 15 years of his 18-year prison term.
