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Negev prison refuses to admit MP Abu Juheisha

Negev prison refuses to admit MP Abu Juheisha because of bad health


09/05/2012

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Negev prison administration refused to receive Change and Reform" bloc MP for Al-Khalil province, Mohamed Abu Juheisha, after he was moved from the Beitunia "Ofer" prison in Ramallah.

Human rights sources confirmed to PIC that the occupation authorities moved the detainee Abu Juheisha to Nafha prison after Negev's administration had refused to receive him due to his health detorioration.

The sources added that the MP Abu Juheisha is suffering from hypertension, diabetes, and his health has deteriorated recently, in addition he is taking 12 different types of medicines.

The Israeli occupation forces had arrested the MP Abu Juheisha from his home in Idna village to the west of Al-Khalil, on 21 August 2011, and it has recently renewed his administrative detention for four more months for the third time in a row, ending next August. He has spent on aggregate more than 10 years in occupation jails.

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