Israel’s Supreme Court rejects on Tuesday an appeal to free a Palestinian jailed without charge and on hunger strike for more than two months, the Palestinian Prisoners Club says.
“The occupation authorities confirmed their decision to keep Sami Janazra, who has been on hunger strike for 69 days to protest against his detention,” says Jawad Boulos of the prisoners club.
Under what it calls administrative detention, Israel can hold suspects for renewable periods without charging them.
Janazra, 43, was arrested in November 2015 and placed in administrative detention for six months, Boulos says, which was recently renewed for a further four months. The lawyer says Janazra had been refusing food since March 3, only drinking water.
Janazra was transferred to Soroka hospital in southern Israel where he was “under observation,” Israeli prison authorities tell AFP.
— AFP
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