A Palestinian political prisoner has been hospitalised and is in critical condition as he continues to refuse food in protest of being imprisoned by Israel without charges, a Palestinian official has told Al Jazeera. Muhammad al-Qeq, a 33-year-old journalist from the occupied West Bank village of Dura, launched his fast on November 24 in protest against his administrative detention, a practice in which Israel imprisons Palestinians on "secret evidence" and without trial or charges. "He hasn't eaten in 49 days and his is health is very bad now," Issa Qaraqe, head of the Palestinian Authority's prisoner committee, told Al Jazeera, adding that Qeq had been transferred to Afula...
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