Ahead of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (April 17th) - and in light of the prolonged hunger strike currently waged by Palestinian Prisoner Samer ‘Issawi, as well as recent reports detailing the deaths of several Palestinian security prisoners - PHR-Israel releases an extensive report exposing a long list of medical ethics and human rights violations carried out by the IPS, specifically by prison medical practitioners, that endangered the lives of prisoners and detainees on hunger strike. According to PHR-Israel, the violations are a direct result of situating prison medical services under the auspices of the IPS, which operate largely out of security considerations.
The struggle of Palestinian prisoners made headlines last year when five administrative detainees waged prolonged hunger strikes in protest of their detention. Ahead of last year’s Palestinian Prisoners’ Day just one year ago, 1,600 additional Palestinians launched a mass hunger strike as a show of support and solidarity with those already on prolonged strike, and in protest of the conditions of their incarceration. The hunger strikes made the Israeli and international publics conscious and aware of the arbitrary policies that the State of Israel and the IPS pursue and implement vis-à-vis Palestinian prisoners.
Press Release
http://phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=116&ItemID=1732
Full Report - 49 pages
http://www.scribd.com/doc/135298869/The-Palestinian-Prisoners-Hunger-Strikes-of-2012-Political-Moral-Medical-and-Ethical-Challenges-Encountered-While-Treating-Palestinian-Prisoners-on
Addameer: Administrative Detention factsheet
http://stopadcampaign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/General-Fact-Sheet-English.pdf
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