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<h1 class="reader-title">Long-time Palestinian Hunger Striker
Khader Adnan Released from Prison<br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time"><span>November 15, 2018</span></div>
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<p>After a 58-day hunger strike which included several
days of refusing water as well as food, Khader Adnan has
been freed from Israeli prison.</p>
<p>This was Adnan’s third such hunger strike – in 2011 he
engaged in a 66-day long hunger strike, and in 2014 he
again undertook a ‘hunger strike to the death’ of 55
days. He became a symbol of Palestinian hunger-striking
prisoners and their steadfast resistance to the horrific
conditions and brutality of Israeli detention
facilities.</p>
<p>Adnan has been repeatedly imprisoned by Israeli
authorities, who accuse him of being a member of a
‘banned organization’, Islamic Jihad. But he has never
been accused of engaging in any violent action or taking
part in armed resistance, simply of being considered a
‘security risk’, which has landed him in prison for
months and even years at a time without specified
charges. He has spent a total of eight years in Israeli
prisons.</p>
<p>This most recent imprisonment lasted eleven months,
with no charges filed against him. He is one of hundreds
of Palestinian prisoners held without charges under
so-called ‘administrative detention’, in which Israeli
authorities imprison Palestinians indefinitely with no
charges or access to a legal system of trials and
appeals.</p>
<p>Adnan’s 2011 hunger strike sparked a movement among
Palestinian prisoners – in 2012 around 2,000 Palestinian
prisoners went on hunger strike, demanding an end to the
policy of administrative detention, isolation and other
punitive measures they faced.</p>
<p>On October 28<sup>th</sup> of this year, after 57 days
on hunger strike, Adnan announced that he was going to
stop drinking water. He went into negotiations with
Israeli authorities soon after, who agreed to release
him if he ended his hunger strike.</p>
<p>Informed sources told the Palestinian Information
Center (PIC) that Adnan was released after 11 months of
administrative detention, which was seen as sufficient
by a military judge, who heard the case in late October
after Adnan decided to give up drinking water.</p>
<p>During the 58-day hunger strike, Adnan’s health
seriously deteriorated after he stopped taking
supplements that help him survive the long fast. Before
ending his strike, he had begun to show serious symptoms
such as vomiting blood.</p>
<p>Adnan, aged 40, from Arrabeh village in the West Bank,
told his lawyers and visitors that he went on hunger
strike to obtain his freedom. The 58-day open-ended
hunger strike was in protest of his detention without
trial and the renewal old fabricated charges against
him.</p>
<p>He ended his hunger strike following promises to hold a
hearing for his case and to halt the renewal of his
detention.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of his the strike, Adnan was
subjected to abusive measures. He was isolated, moved
from one detention center to another, deprived of
visitation and held in harsh prison conditions.</p>
<p>He is married and is a father of seven children, the
oldest of whom is 10 years old and the youngest, Maryam,
is 18 months.</p>
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