IPS holds hunger striking Jordanian prisoner in room filled with rats

The Palestinian prisoner’s society has warned of the serious health condition of Jordanian captive Munir Mara’ee who has been on hunger strike for 25 days. It said in a statement on Sunday that Mara’ee has refrained from drinking water since Friday in protest at transferring him to an isolation ward in Eshel prison near to homicide convicts. It said that Mara’ee told the society’s lawyer Louay Akka that the Israeli prison service was intentionally holding him near the homicide convicts, adding that his cell was full of rates and he could not sleep at all. He added that the prison director issued orders that all what he needs in his imprisonment should be withdrawn from him, adding that his cell has a toilet with no door. Mara’ee said that he did not have a bath for the past 12 days and that the prison authorities refuse to wash his clothes.