Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike in solidarity with Hashlamon

Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike in solidarity with Hashlamon

The number of Palestinian prisoners, who are going on hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian detainee Nora Al-Hashlamon, is on the rise, according to a Palestinian legal center.


The director of the prisoners” studies center, Ra”fat Hamdona, said in a press release that the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) was concerned over the expanding number of those joining Hashlamon”s hunger strike that started 12/3/2008 in protest over her unjustified administrative detention.


He said that the IPA moved a number of prisoners from Negev jail to other prisons fearing expansion of the strike in Negev, where Hashlamon”s husband is incarcerated.


Hamdona quoted a prisoner in Negev as saying that the husband along with four others was transferred from the jail a couple of days ago for starting an open-ended hunger strike and for instigating others to join the strike.


Hashlamon”s cousin along with another internee also started a hunger strike on Wednesday, he elaborated.


Hashlamon, a mother of six children, started her hunger strike after the IPA decided to extend her administrative detention, without trial or charge, for the seventh consecutive time.