Prisoner’s Condition Deteriorates
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vigil was held in recent days in Belfast in support of Palestinian
hunger striker, Hanan al-Shalabi, whose condition has rapidly
deteriorated. Amnesty International has expressed concern for Hana
al-Shalabi, a young Palestinian woman, who is being held on
Administrative Detention in Israel’s Hasharon Prison and who is now on
the 35th day of her hunger strike.
At dawn, on February 16th,
fifty Israeli soldiers, together with attack dogs, raided her family
home in Jenin. She was arrested without warrant or charge, beaten and
humiliated. Upon arrival at the prison she was forcibly strip-searched
by a male soldier. She immediately began a hunger strike demanding her
release, for which she was punished with solitary confinement. She has
already served a thirty-month period of Administrative Detention for
which she was never charged or brought to trial. For more information
see here.
Last month another Palestinian prisoner, Khader Adnan,ended his 66-day hunger strike against his imprisonment in a deal that will see him released on April 17th.
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