Administrative detainee suspends 56-day long hunger strike after reaching a deal for his release
Administrative detainee suspends 56-day long hunger strike after reaching a deal for his release
Administrative detainee Imad Sawarka.
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel, Imad Sawarka, today suspended his 56-day long hunger strike after Israel set a ceiling for his detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
It said in a statement that Sawarka, 37, from Jericho, who began his hunger strike on March 18 to protest his prolonged administrative detention, has agreed to suspend his hunger strike after his lawyer informed him that he has reached a deal with the Israeli occupation authorities in which Sawarka s current detention will not be renewed after it ends on July 17.
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Palestinian prisoner completes 19 years behind Israeli bars
RAMALLAH, Sunday, May 9, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestinian political prisoner and veteran in Israeli detention Abbas al-Sayyid completes today 19 years in Israeli occupation s prisons, said the Palestinian Prisoner s Society (PPS).
Al-Sayyid, 56 years old, who comes from the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, was arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities on this day in 2002, and was served 35 life sentences and an additional 150 years in prison for his activism in the armed resistance against the Israeli occupation.
Al-Sayyid is one of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have been denied family visitation several times in the past by the Israeli occupation authorities as a punishment against him and his family. His wife was allowed to visit him for the first time only after he had spent seven years in prison.