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Palentinian Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Israel’s ‘Administrative Detention’

August 15, 2013Conflict & Justice

A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody has agreed to end his 66 day hunger strike. After more than two months without food, Khader Adnan was said to be close to death by starvation.

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