[Pnews] Forcible Treatment of Palestinian Political Prisoner Muhammad Al-Qeeq Approved

[Prisoner News]

  Forcible Treatment of Al-Qeeq Approved

author Wednesday February 03, 2016
*http://www.imemc.org/article/74818*

    Israeli authorities have decided to forcibly treat hunger striking
    detainee, journalist Muhammad al-Qeeq, without his consent,
    according to Minister Issa Qaraqe
    <http://www.imemc.org/newswire?search_text=Issa+Qaraqe&button=Search+%3E%3E>,
    chairman of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli ethics committee at Afula hospital, 
where Palestinian detainee al-Qeeq is being hospitalized, said that he 
is on the verge of death, following 71 consecutive days of hunger strike 
in protest of being imprisoned without a charge or trial.

Iyad Mesk, an attorney with the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) 
<http://www.imemc.org/newswire?search_text=PPS&button=Search+%3E%3E>, 
said that the Israeli ethics committee, composed of nine physicians, 
concluded that al-Qeeq’s health has reached a very critical stage and 
that he faces the possibility of death at any moment, stressing that 
even if he survives, he still remains at risk of a potential failure of 
various organs.

The commission said that medical reports issued by Afula hospital are 
merely pro forma reports, given the fact that al-Qeeq has been rejecting 
to undergo any medical tests, including blood and Electrocardiogram 
(ECG) examinations.

The commission also accused the Israeli Supreme Court of being an 
“accomplice” with the Israeli 'extreme right-wing government’, in its 
blatant disregard to al-Qeeq’s health deterioration.

To be noted, the World Medical Association's declarations on hunger 
strikers, including the Malta Declaration “forbids applying pressure to 
end a hunger strike and forced medical treatment.” The Tokyo Declaration 
"forbids physicians' participation in torture, including the forced 
feeding or treatment of hunger strikers.”

The World Medical Association, the Red Cross, and the United Nations, 
consider forced treatment a cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or 
punishment, and a blatant violation of international law and human 
rights <http://www.imemc.org/newswire?topic=humanrights>.

According to the prisoner rights group, Addameer 
<http://www.imemc.org/newswire?search_text=Addameer&button=Search+%3E%3E>, 
“Both force-feeding and forced treatment are violent policies that are 
very painful and absolutely violate the principle of individual autonomy.”

“The practices constitute degrading, inhumane treatment, that could 
amount to torture. Both practices may be dangerous and have a negative 
impact on Palestinian hunger strikers 
<http://www.imemc.org/newswire?search_text=hunger+strike&button=Search+%3E%3E>, 
and each presents an unsuitable approach to save their lives.”

To be noted, on January 27th, 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court fixed 
al-Qeeq’s administrative detention term, without charge or trial, for 
six months, despite his critical health condition.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the United Nations Coordinator for 
Humanitarian Assistance and Development Aid, Robert Piper, expressed 
grave concern over Israel’s continued practice of administrative 
detention, without charge or trial.

“I am alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating health of Palestinian 
administrative detainee, Muhammad Al-Qeeq, who is on hunger strike in 
protest against the arbitrary nature of his detention and ill-treatment.”

The UN official reiterated 'the United Nations' long-standing position 
that all administrative detainees – Palestinian or Israeli - should be 
charged or released without delay’.
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