[Pnews] Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike Suspended

[Prisoner News]

  Hunger Strike Suspended

author Wednesday June 25, 2014 11:18author by Saed Bannoura
*http://www.imemc.org/article/68227*

    [Wednesday, June 25 2014] The Palestinian "Prisoners Center for
    Studies" has reported that hunger striking Palestinian detainees,
    held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders,
    announced suspending their strike after reaching an agreement with
    the Israeli security officials, and Prison Administration officials.

In a statement, the detainees said that, as the Israeli aggression 
escalates against the Palestinian people, and in an attempt to give the 
families of the detainees some relief, following 63 days of hunger 
strike carried out by their detained family members, a decision was made 
to suspend the strike.

"To grant our families some relief, especially before the holy month of 
Ramadan starts, and following 63 days of ongoing hunger strike, we have 
decided to suspend our strike", the statement reads, "We held meetings 
with Israeli officials, and will release details of the agreement after 
all hospitalized hunger strikers are discharged".

On his part, former political prisoner and the head of the Detainees 
Center for Studies, Ra'fat Hamdouna, stated that the talks between the 
representatives of the detainees and the Israeli officials lasted until 
dawn hours.

He said the suspension of the strike is based on an agreement obliging 
Israel to stop the endless renewals of Administrative Detention orders, 
without charges or trial.
Hamdouna added that the agreement includes, but not limited to, the 
following points:

1. Israel to stop the ongoing and open-ended renewals of Administrative 
Detention orders.

2. Renewals of such orders should not exceed one year.

3. Any renewal after that should be based on official charges, filed 
against the detainees, not the usual "secret files" that the neither the 
detainees, nor their lawyers have access to.

Lawyer Ashraf Abu Sneina, and the following detainees - representatives 
of the detainees committee; signed the statement;

Abdul-Jaber <http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ih/9786134394758>Foqaha, 
Mahmoud Shabana, Sufian al-Wahadeen, Fadi Hamad, Fadi Amro, Ashraf 
Asfour, Daoud Hamdan, Abdul-Razeq Farraj, and Salem Dardasawy. Signed on 
June 25, 2014.

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