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SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom - Samir Kassir Foundation

SKeyes Calls for the Immediate Release of Journalist Mohammad Al-Qaiq

Wednesday , 27 January 2016

The correspondent of Saudi network Al-Majd TV, Mohammad Al-Qaiq, has been on hunger strike for 64days now. He was arrested on November 21, 2015 by Israeli authorities and sentenced to six months of administrative detention. His health has deteriorated rapidly; he has lost the ability to talk and is slipping in and out of consciousness.
“Journalist Mohammad Al-Qaiq is in a very critical health condition and he could die any minute now,” Issa Qaraqaa, head of the Committee for Prisoners' Affairs, said in an interview with SKeyes's correspondent.
Also, his family called on “Palestinian MPs in the Israeli Knesset, as well as all Palestinians of the 1948 Territories to immediately help him and rush to the Afula hospital where he is held captive by Israeli soldiers and frequently losing consciousness.” His relatives said that Al-Qaiq’s demands are simple and fair and consist in “putting an end to his administrative detention and releasing him. For him, it would either be freedom or martyrdom.”
The SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom calls on the international community and the human rights organizations to intervene and exert pressure on the Israeli authorities, in order to release journalist Mohammad Al-Qaiq who is in a critical health condition at the Afula hospital, immediately and under no condition. SKeyes also insists on the necessity to cancel the administrative detention sentence, especially that there are no clear charges against Al-Qaiq. SKeyes holds the Israeli authorities accountable for any harm that might occur to Al-Qaiq.
Finally, SKeyes notes that the Israeli administrative detentions violate the basic legal standards, as they do not respect international laws, human rights principles and the right to a fair trial. 

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