Negev prison administration refuses to treat hunger striker

10 يونيو/جزيران 2012 الساعة . 01:37 م   بتوقيت القدس

The Negev prison administration has refused to extend necessary medical treatment for Palestinian prisoner Aysar Al-Atrash, who has been suffering pain for several days due to his hunger strike.

Atrash told his lawyer that the prison administration was only giving him sedatives without any medical check-ups to know reason for his chest pain and treat it.

He said that the jailors, in a bid to blackmail and pressure him, used to bring three meals every day to his cell while keeping 24-hour camera monitoring on him.

Atrash said that the jailors took him in a stretcher to the prison’s clinic and threw him on the floor on arrival there.