Twelve Palestinian and Jordanian detainees are staging a hunger - TopicsExpress



          

Twelve Palestinian and Jordanian detainees are staging a hunger strike in Israeli prisons. The strikers are all that remains of a larger group that included at least 23 prisoners in early July. Administrative detainee Ayman Hamdan, who has gone the longest without food, has refused food for over three months in protest of his detention without trial or charge. The remaining 11 prisoners’ respective strikes ranged between 30 and 90 days. The five Jordanian prisoners must be “first to be released from Israeli prisons so that they can serve their sentences in Jordanian prisons according to the Wadi Araba agreement between Jordan and Israel,” lawyer Faris Ziyad told Mondoweiss earlier this month. Israeli Prison Services is regularly accused by Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights groups of inhumane treatment of prisoners.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:03:00 +0000

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