[Pnews] Israel releases veteran Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan

[Prisoner News]

  Israel releases veteran hunger striker Khader Adnan

Jan. 5, 2016 4:06 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 5, 2016 7:30 P.M.)
*http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769673*

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces released veteran Palestinian hunger 
striker Khader Adnan several hours after he was detained on Monday 
afternoon, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said Tuesday.The head of 
the society, Qadura Fares, told Ma'an that Adnan was detained at around 
3 p.m. while driving through a checkpoint near Silwad east of Ramallah 
in the occupied West Bank.Adnan does not know where he was taken, but 
believed it may have been the Ofer military prison west of Ramallah. He 
was later released in Nablus at around 8 p.m.Fares said the reason for 
the detention was not clear. He noted that one of the stipulations of 
Adnan's release from Israel's prisons last year was that he distance 
himself from political activity, specifically that of the Islamic Jihad 
movement.Adnan is most famous for undertaking two grueling hunger 
strikes to protest his administrative detention, or internment without 
charge.He was most recently released in July last year after he 
undertook a 55-day hunger strike. His release was widely celebrated, 
although it was only made possible after Adnan withdrew his demand that 
Israel agree never to hold him in administrative detention again.The 
hunger strike, which brought him near death by the time it concluded, 
was the second he had carried out, following a 66-day long hunger strike 
in 2012 that also ended in his release.
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