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Lawyer: Issawi stops drinking water
Published Tuesday 12/03/2013 (updated) 14/03/2013 13:49
Israeli prison guards are reflected in a mirror at a Jerusalem court as
they stand around Samer Issawi, Feb. 21. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Hunger striking detainee Samer Issawi has stopped drinking water in an escalation of his 223-day protest, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Jawad Bulous told Ma'an that Issawi started refusing all liquid on Monday in protest at having to wear ankle restraints and being shackled to his hospital bed.

He is required to keep his restraints on even when using the bathroom, Bulous said, adding that keeping him tied to the bed is inhumane and undignified.

The lawyer said that when he visited Issawi's room he found seven Israeli prison officers eating food to deliberately torment Issawi.

Doctors have tried to convince Issawi to drink water and are afraid he may die at any moment as his blood pressure is very low.

Issawi was arrested on July 7 and accused of violating the terms of his release under a prisoner swap by leaving Jerusalem. He has been on hunger strike since Aug. 1 to protest Israel' s violation of his amnesty and his illegal imprisonment.

Issawi was transferred from Ramle prison to the Kaplan Medical Center at the end of February.
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1 ) shamir / russia
12/03/2013 17:51
>>The lawyer said that when he visited Issawi's room he found seven Israeli prison officers eating food to deliberately torment Issawi.<<
2 ) Zainab / UK
12/03/2013 20:12
To keep a person in conditions described in the article above, is a direct contravention of Article 5 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights; "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 8 states: "Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law". Drink water brother Samer, don't die for Israel's crimes against humanity.
3 ) shirleyS / AUSTRALIA
12/03/2013 21:25
where is the PA and where is outrage RED CROSS and UN pals have lety this issue slide and PA useless demand they sign geneva conventions to protect prisoners and isreals war crimes starving and isolation are war crimes and all these jailors sahould be charged and RED CROSS and UN accountable for doing and saying nothing MAAN NEWS WOULD DO BETTER TELLING OBAMA THIS INSTEAD OF USELESS WE HAVE NO SG AND PROTEST THIS WAR CRIMINALS VISIT IN GENERAL HE DOES NOT SUPPORT PAL STATE
4 ) Sherri Munnerlyn / US
12/03/2013 23:51
The detention of Samer Issawi is a crime against humanity that violates countless international laws and the PA should be taking his case and the cases of all the Palestinian political prisoners to the ICC.
5 ) Mel / USA
13/03/2013 17:34
WHY OBAMA?Why does USG & our "closest ally" Israel have 2B so INHUMANE,BRUTAL & UNUSUALLY CRUEL,to all others,who question or CRITICIZE our terrible Govt policies in US,or in Israel? Decades of indefinate detentions by OCCUPYING Israel! Now,11 YRS of prisoners in GITMO,where over a 100 are hunger-striking under the"greatest"democracy USA,while we FUND(again)AL-Qaeda in SYRIA etc. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/13/over_100_guantanamo_prisoners_on_hunger
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