RAMALLAH, February 7, 2016 (WAFA) - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) accused the Israeli Supreme Court of providing a legal cover-up for the actions of the Israeli security services, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of hunger striker, al-Qiq.

PCHR, in a statement,  strongly condemned the decision issued by the Israeli Supreme Court on February 2016 to suspend the administrative detention of journalist Mohammed al-Qiq, who currently faces death in Israeli Afula hospital, after 75 consecutive days of hunger strike in protest of his detention without charge or trial.

Al-Qiq rejected the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision, considering it a circumvention of his right to resist the illegal, inhuman and immoral decision of administrative detention.

Lawyer Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, said that ‘the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend al-Qeeq’s administrative detention is an attempt to break his 74-day hunger strike, giving the security services the green light then to reactivate his detention.’

Sourani explained ‘that reflects conspiracy between the Israeli Supreme Court and security services, emphasizing the role of the Israeli courts in offering a legal cover-up for Israeli crimes committed against Palestinian civilians and arbitrarily arresting them through the policy of administrative detention.’

PCHR Called upon the international community ‘to move immediately to stop the Israeli policy of administrative detention against Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons’.

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