Shalabi Continues Hunger Strike despite ’’Israeli’’ Game of Sentence Reduction
An "Israeli" court decided Sunday to shorten the administrative detention of the Palestinian female prisoner Hana Shalabi who has been on hunger strike since she was rearrested on the 16th of last February.
However, Shalabi announced from her prison despite an announcement by "Israel's" Ofer military court that her prison time will be reduced from six to four months.
Shalabi told her lawyer Fadi Qawasmi that she would continue her hunger strike protest in order to achieve her demands to end administrative detention.
Meanwhile, Qawasmi said that "Ofer military court refused my request to call witnesses to speak about the assault of Shalabi during her interrogation."
She has been on hunger strike for 18 days and her condition is said to have worsened recently.
Shalabi's campaign came shortly after Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan ended a 66-day hunger strike in protest at his imprisonment without charge, under a deal that will see him released in April.
Human rights groups have condemned the continued "Israeli" use of administrative detention, with Amnesty International calling the practice illegal.
Lawyer from the Prisoners' Society Jawad Boulos said Tuesday that ""Israeli" court officials claimed that the reason for Shalabi's administrative detention is because she is considered a threat to "Israel's" security and safety of its people."
They also claimed that she planned military actions right after she was released.
The Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer has demanded Shalabi's immediate release.
Shalabi was among more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in October in a trade for "Israeli" soldier Gilad Shalit.
Shalabi, from the West Bank village of Burqin village, near Jenin, spent 30 months in detention without trial before her release last year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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