Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike falls into coma

15/08/2015| IslamWeb

Mohammed Allan, a Palestinian prisoner detained in an Israeli prison, fell into a coma two months after beginning a hunger strike in protest of his detention, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement on Friday.

The group said Allan's health had seriously deteriorated, noting that he fell into a coma after suffering from tremors on Thursday night and was put on a respirator.

Allan, 30, is a lawyer in the West Bank and had been detained since Nov. 16, 2014. He had been on hunger strike since June to protest his continued administrative detention without trial.

Under Israel’s administrative detention measures, an individual can be held in prison for a period of one to six months without trial.

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Protesters hold placards depicting hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan during a demonstration against force-feeding him, outside Soroka hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel August 9, 2015.

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