JERUSALEM (AP) — A lawyer for a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike says Israel’s supreme court has rejected a petition to release his client.
Attorney Nery Ramati says he was told Wednesday to exhaust the appeals process with a military committee first, before petitioning the top court.
Ramati’s client, Ayman Sharawneh, was originally sentenced for 38 years for militant activity but was released in 2011 exchange for a captive soldier.
But the military committee later ordered Sharawneh re-arrested, citing secret evidence allegedly showing he violated his release terms.
Sharawneh has refused food for over 70 days in an off-again, on-again hunger strike to protest his continued detention.
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The military committee will meet Feb. 28 to decide on Sharawneh’s fate. It has the power to decide whether he will serve his full term.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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