Lawyer defending Palestinian hunger striker, Mohammad al-Qiq referred to the grave-like cell the prisoner is held saying he is under detention without minimum living requirements.
Lawyer explains grave-like cell for Palestinian hunger striker
20 Feb 2017 - 8:52
Lawyer defending Palestinian hunger striker, Mohammad al-Qiq referred to the grave-like cell the prisoner is held saying he is under detention without minimum living requirements.
Qiq was released from an Israeli prison last year in May, after going on hunger strike for 94 days in protest to his detention without trial or charges.
He was later detained in January after taking part in a protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and placed back into administrative detention.
His lawyer, Khalid Zabarqa, was quoted by the Ma'an news agency on Sunday as saying that he was able to visit Qiq in prison ten days after filing an official request.
“Al-Qiq is held in a small cell measuring barely four square meters and lacking the minimum basic living requirements," he said, adding that Israeli prison authorities had "refused to provide al-Qiq with winter clothes and sheets, leaving him unable to sleep due to low temperatures."
While noting that Qiq was also suffering from dizziness, loss of balance, and back pain, he stressed that Israel was deliberately forcing hard conditions on him so that he would end his hunger strike.
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