Ashraf Shannon Press TV, Gaza The Palestinian Center for Human Rights has held a conference in the besieged Gaza Strip to support journalist Mohammed al-Qiq who has been refusing food for over 70 days in an Israeli jail. The renowned Palestinian human rights organization is calling for urgent international intervention to end the plight of […]

Hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq is facing a severe risk of stroke, warned his lawyer Ashraf Abu Sneineh on 2 February. He has lost a massive amount of weight, and there is evidence of damage to internal organs of his body, Abu Sneineh said. Al-Qeeq, 33, is a Palestinian journalist, a correspondent for Al-Majd channel, who […]

Two murals – one in Copenhagen, Denmark and one in Gaza City, Palestine – were unveiled this weekend in separate acts of artistic support for hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq, who has now been on hunger strike for 71 days, demanding his release from Israeli administrative detention without charge or trial. The Mohja Jerusalem Foundation […]

The administrative detention of Palestinian civil society leader Eteraf Bajes Hajjaj Rimawi was extended by occupation forces for an additional four months on 1 February 2016, with a new Israeli military order. Rimawi, Executive Director of Bisan Center for Research and Development, has been imprisoned since 15 September 2014; his administrative detention has been extended […]

DURA, Occupied Palestinian Territories – When Fayha Salash talks of the man her husband is, she speaks with a smile – even if the circumstances are dire. Her husband, Mohammed al-Qiq, has been on hunger strike for 70 days and counting. His lawyers describe him as close to death with Robert Piper, a top UN […]

NEW YORK — As Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq reaches the 70th day of a hunger strike against his administrative detention by Israel on Tuesday, protests demanding his freedom are growing across the world as others continue in Palestine. “Mohammed is hanging between life and death,” Islam al-Qeeq, his brother, told MintPress News from Ramallah. “The […]

As 23-year-old Palestinian circus performer Mohammad Abu Sakha enters his second month of administrative detention in Israeli prison, new appeals have been issued by Amnesty International for his release. Abu Sakha, who has been a performer and trainer with the Palestinian Circus School since 2007, has yet to be charged with any offense. According to […]

Palestinian administrative prisoner Muhammad al-Qeeq (33) has insisted that he wouldn’t suspend his hunger-strike before having been granted his basic human right of freedom. Al-Qeeq started his non-violent battle against the Zionist occupier 4 days following his detention without charges. On his 68th day of hunger-striking, today, the prisoner suffers from vocal cord paralysis and […]

New Yorkers took to the streets on Friday, 29 January to demand the immediate release of imprisoned Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq, on his 66th day of hunger strike and shackled to his hospital bed in critical condition. Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the protest outside the New York City offices of G4S demanded […]

Five Palestinian youths, known as the “Hares boys,” after their home village in the West Bank, have concluded a nearly three-year military trial by agreeing to a plea deal with Israeli occupation authorities. They will each serve 15 years in prison. Ali Shamlawi, Muhammed Kleib, Muhammed Suleiman, Ammar Souf and Tamer Souf, all 16 and […]