Hunger Striking Prisoners

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Adalah and Addameer petition Nazareth District Court against policy of shackling hunger-striking prisoners to hospital beds

2014-06-24

Attorney Zaher: \"The shackling of prisoners in this manner prevents them from using the bathroom properly, which constitutes a grave breach of the constitutional rights of hunger-striking...

Adalah to AG and IPS: Stop shackling Palestinian prisoners on hunger-strike during prayer

2014-06-24

Adalah: The IPS’s sweeping order for 24-hour a day shackling of the prisoners has no relation with the seriousness of any risk posed or not by each person.

Ministry of Health dismisses responsibility for hunger-striking prisoners shackled to their hospital beds day and night

2014-06-17

On 16 June 2014, the Ministry of Health responded to Adalah’s urgent letter sent on 12 June which called for an immediate end to Israeli hospitals’ shackling of Palestinian hunger-striking...

Adalah to Israel Prison Service: Withdraw decisions banning hunger-strikers from family visits and going out to the prison yard

2014-06-16

On 11 June 2014, Adalah sent two urgent letters to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Attorney General demanding that the IPS withdraw its recent decisions preventing Palestinian...

Adalah: Forced-feeding bill is an extreme violation of Palestinian prisoners’ right to protest; prohibition on lawyers’ visits must end

2014-06-04

The acceleration of the law’s discussion is part of an attempt by Israel to break the 43-day hunger strike of 170 Palestinian administrative detainees being held in Israeli prisons.

Adalah to IPS: Illegal to prevent attorneys from visiting Palestinian detainees on hunger strike

2014-05-20

Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Attorney General demanding an end to the IPS’s obstacles and restrictions on lawyers’ visits to Palestinian...