[Ppnews] Hana al-Shalabi’s health worsens after 19 days hunger strike

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Hana al-Shalabi's health worsens after 19 days hunger strike against 
no-charge detention by Israel

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 13:57
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/hana-al-shalabis-health-worsens-after-19-days-hunger-strike-against-no-charge 


Amnesty International has expressed concern over the worsening health 
of <http://electronicintifada.net/tags/hana-al-shalabi>Hana 
al-Shalabi, a Palestinian woman who has been on hunger strike since 
16 February against her detention without charge or trial by Israeli 
occupation authorities.

Al-Shalabi, 29, has vowed to continue her hunger strike despite an 
Israeli military court shortening the period of her 
"<http://electronicintifada.net/tags/administrative-detention>administrative 
detention" by two months.

Currently detained at Hasharon prison, she previously spent more than 
two years in detention without charge or trial and was released in 
October 2011 as part of the Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange.

In 
<http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/010/2012/en/a43276e8-8fe3-409a-b846-b76841460df6/mde150102012en.html>a 
2 March release and action alert, Amnesty expressed concern that the 
Israel Prison Service had not responded to a request by al-Shalabi's 
lawyers "to transfer Hana Shalabi to the Ramleh prison hospital where 
she could receive medical treatment, and to allow the medical NGO 
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel access to Hana."

It also noted that:

According to her lawyer and prisoners' rights organization Addameer, 
Hana Shalabi has been kept in solitary confinement for most of the 
time from 16 February until 27 February, when the Israeli Prison 
Services (IPS) transferred her to a cell with other detainees. Hana 
Shalabi's family have not been allowed to visit her since she was 
arrested. They are currently waiting for permission to do so from the 
Israeli authorities.

Al-Shalabi's parents, in the West Bank village of Burqin, 
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-womans-hunger-strike-enters-third-week-against-arbitrary-detention>have 
also been on an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with their daughter.

Amnesty International's 
<http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/010/2012/en/a43276e8-8fe3-409a-b846-b76841460df6/mde150102012en.html>action 
alert calls on people to contact Israeli authorities directly to 
release al-Shalabi and all administrative detainees immediately 
"unless they are promptly charged with internationally recognizable 
criminal offences and brought to trial in full conformity with 
international fair trial standards," and to ensure humane treatment 
including regular access to doctors, lawyers and family.


Administrative detention "reduced"

Al-Shalabi has told lawyers that she will maintain her hunger strike 
despite an Israeli military court reducing her administrative 
detention period from six months to four months. 
<http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=465202>Ma'an News 
Agency reported:

Hana Shalabi said Sunday that she will continue her hunger strike 
despite an announcement by Israel's Ofer military court that her 
prison time will be reduced by two months.

Lawyer Fadi Qawasmi visited Shalabi at Hasharon prison and informed 
her of the court's decision on Sunday to reduce her imprisonment time 
by two months.

Shalabi told him that she would continue her hunger strike protest in 
order to achieve her demands to end administrative detention.

She has been on hunger strike for 18 days and her condition is said 
to have worsened recently.

The report added that the Israeli military court refused to allow 
al-Shalabi's lawyer to call any witnesses.


Hunger striker hospitalized

Meanwhile, another prisoner from Gaza who has refused food for more 
than 13 days in solidarity with al-Shalabi was reportedly 
hospitalized. [According to 
Ma'an]:(<http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=464660>http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=464660):

A prisoner on hunger strike in solidarity with Hana Shalabi has been 
transferred to hospital after he was released from jail, a detainees 
center said Friday.

Suheil Akram Al-Masri, 26, has refused food for 13 days to support 
the female detainee. Shalabi started a hunger strike 16 days ago to 
protest her administrative detention, after she was re-arrested 
having been freed by Israel in an earlier prisoner swap deal.

Al-Masri was transferred to hospital after fainting on his arrival 
home to Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday night. His 
parents said they had expected his release from Israeli prison on 
April 20, after his four year term completed.

 From hospital, Al-Masri vowed to continue his hunger strike until 
Shalabi is released.





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