Rearrested Palestinian prisoner begins hunger strike
Al Jazeera
Mohammad al-Ardah, one of six who broke out of an Israeli jail last month, is protesting punitive prison measures.
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Rearrested Palestinian prisoner Mohammad al-Ardah, one of six prisoners who broke out of an Israeli jail last month, has begun an open-ended hunger strike against what his lawyers described as “harsh isolation conditions”.
Al-Ardah’s lawyer visited him at the southern prison of Asqalan (Ashkelon) on Monday, where he has been held in solitary confinement since Wednesday.
“He announced a hunger strike to demand better living and detention conditions, and for prison authorities to drop the punitive measures that were taken against him,” lawyer Kareem Ajwa, from the Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, told Al Jazeera.