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A Palestinian journalist who went on hunger strike 90 days ago over his unlawful detention by Israeli authorities could die soon. He has almost lost the ability to speak and hear, and is paying a high price for freedom of speech, his lawyer says.

“Mohammed al Qeq is in critical condition. Mohammed could die at any time. Minutes and seconds separate him from death,” his lawyer Ashraf Abu Sneineh told RT.

Mohammed suffers from convulsions in the muscles of his hands and feet and medical certificates from Afula Hospital say the journalist is close to death, according to the lawyer.

Muhammed al-Qeq was arrested by Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet in November, over alleged links with Hamas. He subsequently launched a hunger strike in protest at being detained without charges or due legal process, refusing food and drinking only water. The journalist is believed to be the first to protest extrajudicial detention, widely practiced against the Palestinians, by refusing food.

The full article itself is on RTs front page. There's a video of Qeq and be warned its hard to watch.

Here is Al Jazeera reporting on Qeq a month ago:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...journalist-nearing-death-160112042958030.html

 

[Always-honest]

Damn.. 90 days!?

"Secret evidence" ey?..

 

[G.ZZZ]

Hey, but u're a racist if you decide to boycott products from occupied territories!

Thx america and ur middle east plays for powers once again.

 

[nib95]

Disgraceful that Israel continues to get away with detaining, arresting and imprisoning people without due legal process or on falsified grounds. I dread to wonder just how many innocent people have been locked away under such circumstances, or suffered even worse fates. I hope a last minute effort can be made to help this guy.

 

[gdt]

Fuck man. That must be awful.

 

[Nikodemos]

Hey, but u're a racist if you decide to boycott products from occupied territories!

They usually get slapped with a "Made in Israel" sticker anyway.

 

[nOoblet16]

Hey, but u're a racist if you decide to boycott products from occupied territories!

Thx america and ur middle east plays for powers once again.

Not just racist but also unlawful.
In UK they're trying to make it unlawful to boycott products from a country, if this had happened 30 years ago or so South African Apartheid would have continued for God knows how long.

Our University's student union passed a BDS motion to boycott products manufactured in occupied territories after holding a university wide vote for a week, and it took us years to get it passed...and it'll be all undone in a matter of months.

 

[nib95]

Not just racist but also unlawful.
In UK they're trying to make it unlawful to boycott products from a country, if this had happened 30 years ago or so South African Apartheid would have continued for God knows how long.

Our University's student union passed a BDS motion to boycott products manufactured in occupied territories after holding a university wide vote for a week, and it took us years to get it passed...and it'll be all undone in a matter of months.

Not necessarily. I believe there's petitions and legal pressure mounting against the decision, but you and your fellow students need to make your voices heard.

Gov Petition | Publicly funded bodies should keep the freedom to boycott unethical companies

 

[nOoblet16]

Not necessarily. I believe there's petitions and legal pressure mounting against the decision, but you and your fellow students need to make your voices heard.

Gov Petition | Publicly funded bodies should keep the freedom to boycott unethical companies

Oh I already signed that last week.

 

[cameron]

The Guardian: "Palestinian ends 94-day hunger strike after Israel drops detention without charge"

Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq has ended a 94-day hunger strike in protest against his detention without charge after a deal was reached for Israel to drop his detention.

Al-Qiq, a 33-year-old from Ramallah who had been near death in recent days, will not be released immediately but will remain in an Israeli medical centre in Afula until 21 May, where he will receive treatment.

He will not be transferred to a Palestinian-run hospital in East Jerusalem as previously planned.

Al-Qiq has been surviving on water alone after refusing to take essential minerals.

The head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Qadura Fares, said al-Qiq was allowing doctors to examine him and would start receiving medical treatment.

The deal allows visits from his wife, two children and father – who had been unable to enter Israel to visit him since al-Qiq began starving himself.

The Associated Press :

Israel's military said "following the end of Mohammed al-Qeq's hunger strike, he will continue to remain in custody until May 21. On that date the situation will be examined to determine whether there is new information or security circumstances which require extending detention."

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, an advocacy group, said this week that al-Qeq has been on a hunger strike longer than any other Palestinian detainee or any of the participants in 1981 protest strikes by Irish Republican Army prisoners held by Britain in Northern Ireland.

Al-Qeq's fate was raised in recent top-level meetings, including talks Sunday between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

The deal for his release comes as Israel struggles to combat five months of near-daily Palestinian attacks on civilians and security forces that have killed 28 Israelis, mostly in stabbings, shootings and attacks where Palestinians used vehicles as weapons to ram into Israelis. At the same time, at least 166 Palestinians were killed, most of them said by Israel to have been attackers. The rest died in clashes with troops.

John Kerry doing good work.