(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Horriet Center for the defense of Liberties and Civil Rights strongly condemned the procedures of the Israeli prison service against hunger striking captive Samer al-Issawi.
Samer al-Issawi has launched his hunger strike since 84 days, respectively, to protest against his re-arrest after he had been released under the "Wafa al-Ahrar" prisoner exchange deal.
Horriet said that it has been following up with great concern the procedures taken by the Israeli prison administration at Nafha against captive Issawi, noting that the occupation authorities has been deliberately and continuously transferring Issawi from Nafha prison to several detention and interrogation centers without any justification, in an attempt to exhaust him and punish him for launching an open-ended hunger strike.
Horriet stressed that such measures against the prisoner Issawi are designed to undermine his determination and push him to end his hunger strike.
It held the occupation prison service and the Israeli government fully responsible for the captive's life, calling on the international human rights organizations to condemn such punitive policy.
The Center also called the Egyptian sponsor to immediately intervene to save Issawi's life as well as the lives of captives Samer al-Barq and Ayman Sharawna, who entered his 113th day of strike hunger, and to release the prisoners who had been re-arrested after their release under the prisoner-exchange deal.
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