{"id":7829,"date":"2012-03-26T08:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2012-03-26T08:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:09:50","slug":"amnesty-international-said-palestinian-hunger-striker-risks-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7829","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International said Palestinian hunger striker risks death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amnesty International said Palestinian hunger striker risks death<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Agence France-Presse &#8211; 23 March, 2012 &#8211; The RawStory<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International on Friday urged Israeli authorities to release Palestinian prisoner Hanaa al-Shalabi who has been on hunger strike for more than a month, saying she was \u201cat risk of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog said Shalabi should be \u201cimmediately\u201d released or charged \u201cwith a recognisable criminal offence\u201d and \u201cpromptly\u201d put on trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman could die in detention after 37 days on hunger strike,\u201d Amnesty said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Shalabi has been on hunger strike since her arrest in the northern West Bank on February 16, when she was originally ordered detained without trial for six months.<\/p>\n<p>She was among more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in October in a trade for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held by Gaza Strip-based militants for more than five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amnesty, the 30-year-old \u201cis allegedly affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement but has never been charged with a criminal offence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week she was moved to Meir Hospital in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHanaa al-Shalabi was transferred this evening to Israel\u2019s Meir hospital after her state of health deteriorated,\u201d Palestinian prisoner affairs minister Issa Qaraqaa told AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said an independent doctor had examined Shalabi on behalf of the group \u201cand concluded that her health had deteriorated considerably and her life was at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A PHR doctor noted \u201ca weakening of musculature, weight loss of 14 kilos (31 pounds), a very feeble pulse and a fall in blood sodium levels,\u201d it said.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/03\/23\/amnesty-international-said-palestinian-hunger-striker-risks-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D7829&amp;text=Amnesty+International+said+Palestinian+hunger+striker+risks+death&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International said Palestinian hunger striker risks death By Agence France-Presse &#8211; 23 March, 2012 &#8211; The RawStory Amnesty International on Friday urged Israeli authorities to release Palestinian prisoner Hanaa al-Shalabi who has been on hunger strike for more than a month, saying she was \u201cat risk of death.\u201d The watchdog said Shalabi should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7829#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2751],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}