Palestinian former hunger striker Bilal Kayid released from prison
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Dec. 12, 2016 5:04 P.M. (Updated : Dec. 12, 2016 5:04 P.M.)
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities released former hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayid to his home in the village of Asira al-Shamaliya in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus on Monday afternoon, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
Kayid went on hunger strike in June after Israeli authorities sentenced him to administrative detention — an Israeli policy of internment without charge or trial based on undisclosed evidence — on the day he was scheduled to be released from prison after serving a 14-and-a-half year sentence.
After refusing medical treatment, vitamins, and salt supplements, living off only water for 71 days, Kayid suspended his hunger strike in late August after reaching an agreement with Israeli authorities to end his administrative detention and release him on Dec. 12.
Kayid a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was originally detained in 2002 for alleged involvement in the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades — the armed wing of the PFLP.
He was transferred between several prisons during his 14-and-a-half-year sentence and was frequently placed into solitary confinement, the last stretch of which left him in isolation for nearly a year at Ramon prison after Israeli authorities learned of his leadership activities among Palestinians inside Israeli prisons.
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Muhammad et Mahmoud Balboul et Bilal Kayed, trois héros palestiniens ex-grévistes de la faim, libérés des geôles sionistes
Par ISM-France | 12 décembre 2016
▻http://www.ism-france.org/temoignages/Muhammad-et-Mahmoud-Balboul-et-Bilal-Kayed-trois-heros-palestiniens-ex-g
Bilal Kayed, qui a été libéré cet après-midi (photo ci-dessous par Hafez Omar), a été emprisonné à l’âge de 19 ans, le 14 décembre 2001, au début de la Deuxième Intifada. Le 13 juin 2016, date prévue de sa libération après 14 ans et demi d’incarcération, des « juges » du régime d’occupation ont décidé de prolonger de 6 mois son incarcération, sous le régime de la détention administrative. Le 15 juin, Bilal décidait d’entreprendre une grève de la faim illimitée pour contraindre l’occupant à respecter ses droits. Après 71 jours de grève, de nombreuses protestations et mobilisations en Palestine et dans le monde, le régime sioniste acceptait de ne pas renouveler la détention administrative de Bilal et de le libérer, 15 ans presque jour pour jour après le début de sa détention. (2)