A lawyer for the Palestinian prisoner’s association said after visiting prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi in his isolation jail in Askalan that his health condition was very bad.
He quoted Abu Sisi as saying that he was finding difficulty in speaking and remembering words as he was held in complete isolation.
The lawyer said that Abu Sisi was suffering from a number of health problems including heart ailment, hypertension, high cholesterol, and anemia in addition to pain in his kidney, stomach and back. Abu Sisi takes nine kinds of medicine, he added.
The lawyer said that Abu Sisi complained of the food quantity and quality, adding that on one occasion the prison administration served him rotten vegetables.
He added that the prison guards launch night raids on his cell and take away his belongings the latest was a small memorandum in which he used to write down his thoughts, adding that he has nothing left with him.
Abu Sisi was kidnapped by Israeli agents in the Ukraine on 18/2/2010 and is being held since then in solitary confinement without trial.
