Two human rights organizations call for the release of Palestinian academic

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Friends of Humanity International and Ahrar center for Prisoners studies and human rights have demanded the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) to quickly release Dr. Mohammed Ghazal, Palestinian lecturer at Al-Najah University.The organizations said that the Israeli occupation authorities have been detaining Ghazal, Doctor of Engineering at one of the major universities in Palestine, since December 2011, under administrative detention which has been renewed three times, each time for a period of six months.The two human rights organizations said that the IOA did not take into consideration the health condition of 55-year-old Mohammed Ghazal, from Nablus, who suffers from high blood pressure and other diseases.Nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners are held under the yoke of the unjust administrative detention in Israeli jails without any charges.End item/ 149