Student Mohamed Arqoub, one of the hunger strikers at Al-Khalil university, was transferred to hospital after his health deteriorated very badly.
In a statement, the student Islamic bloc of Al-Khalil university warned of the danger threatening the lives of striking students as a result of their engagement in a hunger strike for 15 days to protest the arrest campaign waged arbitrarily against the bloc students and to demand the release of their mates.
According to the statement, students from the bloc had to visit a few days ago the mayor of Al-Khalil province who were reluctant to pay a visit to the university to listen to their cause, and during the meeting, he claimed that their mates, Ala'a Za'akik and Mohamed Sabarna, are in detention for reasons unrelated to the university and pledged not to arrest any students from the bloc because of their student activities inside the university.
The mayor also agreed to receive from them a statement of their demands to sign it, but later he hastened unexpectedly to send a letter to the chairman of the board of trustees Dr. Nabil Jabari inciting the administration of the university against the bloc students.
"Based on what happened, we affirm that our demands by virtue of these pressures have increased and become as follows: the immediate release of our mates, Mohamed Sabarna, Ala'a Za'akik and Mohamed Abu Hadid, a written pledge not to arrest the students of the Islamic bloc because of their student activities, none of the students must be arrested because of their student activities inside the university after their graduation, and the formation of a committee assigned to follow up and probe the files of students being detained by the security apparatuses," the student bloc's statement underlined.
