The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society on Wednesday said Israel was “not showing attention or willingness” to solve the case of Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq as he entered day 77 on hunger strike. The society reiterated that the Palestinian prisoner remained in critical condition, slamming Israel for failing to make serious steps in[…]
The Israeli Supreme Court will hold a hearing on Thursday at 3:30 p.m for the case of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq, the Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday. Al-Qiq, a 33-year-old journalist from the occupied West Bank and father of two, has been on hunger strike for[…]
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe met on Sunday with the family of hunger striking prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq. Hamdallah said the Palestinian government was exerting all efforts to obtain the immediate and unconditional release of al-Qiq, who has[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinian journalists and relatives of jailed Palestinians on Wednesday demanded immediate intervention to save Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq. A sit-in was held for the 33-year-old journalist and father of two, just as the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem held a session ruling to delay[…]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amnesty International on Saturday demanded that Israel either release or charge a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner who the group said has been mistreated and tortured in ways that violate international law. Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian Muhammad al-Qiq began a hunger strike on Nov. 25, 2015 to protest being held in[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The PLO has called for the unconditional release of a Palestinian journalist in Israeli custody whose 62-day hunger strike has brought him close to death ahead of an appeal by the prisoner’s lawyers before Israel’s Supreme Court this week. Muhammad al-Qiq, a 33-year-old journalist from[…]
Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike in Israeli jail for 61 days, is on brink of death, the journalist’s lawyer told Ma’an. After a visit with al-Qiq on Monday, Ashraf Abu Sneina, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s commission of detainees and ex-detainee affairs, said al-Qiq[…]
Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan suspended his hunger strike on Friday morning, the head of the legal unit at the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society told Ma’an. Jawad Boulos visited Allan in the Ramla jail medical clinic on Friday, two days after being rearrested by Israeli authorities while leaving the Barzilai Medical Center[…]
Palestinian detainee Muhammed Allan restarted a hunger strike Wednesday after Israel arrested him and reinstated his internment without trial, his lawyer said, with a previous such protest having lasted two months and brought him near death. “He is currently on hunger strike,” lawyer Jamil al-Khatib told AFP. Israeli police said[…]
Israeli authorities on Wednesday rearrested former Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan after he was discharged from an Israeli hospital, the head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society told Ma’an. Qadura Fares said that Israeli authorities had reinstated Allan’s administrative detention, internment without trial or charge, against which the prisoner undertook a[…]
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