[Pnews] Palestinian former hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq began a new hunger strike on Monday to denounce his latest detention by Israel

[Prisoner News]

  http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775333


  Muhammad al-Qiq begins new hunger strike to protest latest
  administrative detention

Feb. 6, 2017
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Prominent Palestinian former hunger striker 
Muhammad al-Qiq began a new hunger strike on Monday to denounce his 
latest detention by Israel.

Palestinian outlet Quds News Agency quoted relatives of al-Qiq as saying 
that the 34-year-old journalist had started an open-ended hunger strike 
on Monday to protest being sentenced to six months in administrative 
detention -- Israel’s controversial practice of detention without trial 
or charges.

Al-Qiq, who lives in Ramallah and is originally from Dura in the 
southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, was released from prison 
in May last year <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771568> after 
have gone without food for a grueling 94 days -- also to protest his 
administrative detention at the time.

However, al-Qiq was redetained in mid-January 
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774941> after he participated 
in a protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem demanding the release of 
bodies of slain Palestinians held in Israeli custody.
According to Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun, Israeli 
authorities had not garnered confessions or issued charges against 
al-Qiq as of late January, although they had earlier expressed that they 
were investigating him for alleged “incitement” on social media, amid a 
crackdown on freedom of expression among Palestinian activists and 
journalists. <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774722>

Al-Qiq’s previous imprisonment by Israel -- widely condemned by the 
United Nations <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770110>, Amnesty 
International, <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769937> and 
other rights groups -- and subsequent hunger strike cast a spotlight on 
Israel’s use of administrative detention, its arbitrary imprisonment of 
Palestinians, and the concerted targeting of Palestinian journalists.

Al-Qiq was one of a number of prominent Palestinian hunger strikers in 
2016, who included the Balboul brothers who went without food for 77 and 
79 days, Malik al-Qadi for 68 days, Bilal Kayid for 71 days.
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