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| High Court halts administrative detention for Palestinian hunger striker | |
| 2015-08-20 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Ruling could pave way for release of Mohammed Allaan; tests show he may have brain damage In light of Paleostinian hunger striker Mohammed Allaan's worsening medical condition, his status as an administrative detainee will be put on hold, the High Court ruled Wednesday, a move that could pave the way for his release from Israeli prison.
After the court's ruling was made public, Allaan's family said that he had ended his hunger strike, Channel 2 reported. Allaan's health had deteriorated Wednesday night, and he was again sedated, Channel 2 said. Medical tests showed that Allaan suffered brain damage due to vitamin deficiency, after waging a 64-day hunger strike to protest his administrative detention by Israel. Reports were conflicting as to whether the damage was reversible. The hospital said earlier Wednesday that while Allaan was conscious, he was in a confused state and not responding to his surroundings. The statement said that he was continuing to receive medical treatment for injuries sustained as a result of his hunger strike. The state said during a High Court meeting Wednesday that Israel would release Allaan if medical tests showed he had suffered irreversible brain damage. Israel has reasoned that lasting brain damage would prevent Allaan from returning to the alleged activities for which he was detained, Israeli website Ynet reported. Allaan, 31, is protesting his incarceration under administrative detention -- an Israeli legal term for imprisonment without trial on terrorism charges -- for alleged affiliation with the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terrorist organization. Qadoura Fares, head of the Paleostinian Prisoners Club, told The Times of Israel on Wednesday that a sharp deterioration in Allaan's condition required his immediate release from jail, rebuffing a reported Israeli proposal to refrain from extending his administrative detention come November. "He's stopped communicating with his environment," Fares told The Times of Israel. "He just stares. It seems like his brain function has tanked." Allaan emerged from a coma Tuesday and warned he would step up his fast by not drinking water if Israel did not resolve his case within 24 hours, the Paleostinian Prisoners Club said. Allaan's attorney said Tuesday that his client was no longer of sound mind, and demanded his immediate release. "The only scenario he will accept is his immediate release," lawyer Jamal Hatib told Army Radio. "He knows that the continuation of his hunger strike is a death sentence for him, and he's willing to do it anyway." State prosecutors on Wednesday offered to refrain from extending Allaan's detention past his November release date if he ended the hunger strike immediately, his lawyers said. Israel had previously offered to release Allaan on condition that he leave the country for four years, an offer which was immediately rejected by his lawyers, who demanded that he be released before September 22, the Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha. "'I'll continue -- either I'll die or I'll return home,'" Allaan told his brother, the sibling recounted to Army Radio. Several demonstrations in support of Allaan have been held since his condition began to deteriorate over the past two weeks, with pro-Paleostinian protesters facing off against right-wing Israeli counter-protesters and Israeli police in sometimes violent confrontations. Israel passed a controversial law last month allowing authorities to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners, but doctors at Barzilai and elsewhere have said they will refuse to comply with the directive. Several Paleostinians have gone on hunger strike in recent years to protest administrative detention, with a number managing to wrest their freedom or better conditions from Israeli authorities. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 :-D |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-20 20:14 |
| #10 Mohammed and Allah were chummy So jihad he waged with his tummy. His noggin's gone rummy But everything's plummy Now Mommy can visit her mummy. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-08-20 18:41 |
| #9 And they can send him home postage instead of freight. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-08-20 17:13 |
| #8 MODs invoking No Frank on Thursday Rule. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-20 17:10 |
| #7 Several Paleostinians have gone on hunger strike in recent years to protest administrative detention, with a number managing to wrest their freedom or better conditions from Israeli authorities Ah...I think I've found the problem. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2015-08-20 15:04 |
| #6 Via IV heh |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-08-20 14:57 |
| #5 Pork smoothies |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-08-20 14:45 |
| #4 Force feed him Pork Chops. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-08-20 12:52 |
| #3 of course, with Cindy Sheehan, irreversible brain damage wouldn't have caused her any difficulties, either |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-08-20 10:21 |
| #2 To me, going on a real hunger strike is just a slow motion way of committing suicide. You are hoping that the imprisoning authority will yield to pressure and give you what you want. Sometimes, it works, like it seems to have in this case. I don't count Cindy Sheehan's "hunger strike", where she survived on smoothies and Jamba juice. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-20 09:41 |
| #1 "The only scenario he will accept is his immediate release," lawyer Jamal Hatib told Army Radio. "He knows that the continuation of his hunger strike is a death sentence for him, and he's willing to do it anyway." "Hokay. Death it is, then" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-08-20 09:23 |