Jerusalem (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Israeli authorities have again arrested Mohammed Allan, the Palestinian who went on hunger strike to protest his "indefinite detention administrative." For two months he refused all food and, suffering partial brain damage. After spending a short time in hospital for medical treatment, the man was sent back to prison despite appeals from activists and civil society demanding his release.
Family members reported that the man, returned to prison, intends to immediately resume this extreme form of protest.
Mohammed Allan, 31, spent several days in intensive care at the hospital in Barzelai. On his admission, the Israeli authorities stopped the regime of administrative detention, which allows suspects to be detained without trial for long periods - renewable every six months - even without specific allegations.
Authorities arrested him in November 2014 on charges of belonging to the extremist group Islamic Jihad; claiming his innocence, the man since last June refused to feed and his condition soon deteriorated. Israel had proposed early November as his release date, in exchange for his interruption of the hunger strike.
The Israeli Ministry of Justice accuses Allan of involvement in "serious acts of terrorism." Citing "top secret" information, the authorities insist that the man is dangerous and therefore must be kept in detention.
Last July Israel passed a law that provides for the force-feeding of prisoners who adopt the hunger strike as a form of protest against their imprisonment.
Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike returned to jail. Israel: He is dangerous
The authorities re-arrested the 31 year old Mohammed Allan. He refused food for 60 days to protest against his indefinite administrative detention. His hunger strike has left him partially brain damaged. According to the Ministry of Justice is involved in acts of "terrorism".
