RAMALLAH, October 19, 2011 (WAFA) - Jailed secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa’adat, suspended his three-week long hunger strike, minister of prisoners, Issa Qaraqe, said on Wednesday.
He said in a press conference in Ramallah that a ministry’s lawyer, who visited Sa’adat in his Ramla prison hospital bed, told him that Sa’adat has suspended his hunger strike after he learned of the agreement between the prison administration and the prisoners to end the solitary confinement policy.
The suspension will be for three days to make sure the prison administration upholds its part of the agreement.
Qaraqe stressed the need to stand by the Palestinian prisoners and to continue with efforts to support their demands, stressing that the release of 477 prisoners from Israeli jails on Tuesday formed a strong incentive to work on all levels.
Sa’adat began his open hunger strike on September 27 to protest his detention conditions after spending three years in solitary confinement. He was taken to the prison hospital after a deterioration in his health.
Palestine News & Info Agency - WAFA
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