Palestinian political prisoners go on hunger strike in solidarity with female detainee Noura Hashlamon

[ 05/04/2008 - 07:35 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The number of Palestinian political prisoners, who are going on hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian detainee Noura 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.

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