FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER NAIM AL-SHAWAMREH HAS DIED
@Razan_Palestine alerted us to the news that the long-suffering former Palestinian political prisoner Naim al-Shawamreh(1968-2016) has died.
NINETEEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT
Israeli occupation detained al-Shawamreh in 1994 for resistance activities against Israel's occupation forces and illegal Israeli settlers in Hebron and sentenced him to be imprisoned for life.
He was finally released on January 1st 2014, arriving home in an ambulance and being unable to walk and barely talk.
CLAIMS OF MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND INTENTIONAL HARMING BY ISRAELI PRISON AUTHORITIES
His health had collapsed rather suddenly in the spring of 2013. His family has claimed that this happened after he was given a pill against his will by Israel's occupation prison services' staff. There was also claims of injections given to him of whose content he was not told and use of un-sterilized instruments in a medical operation.
At the very least there is a strong indication that he was a victim of a medical negligence during the last part of his imprisonment after symptoms first appeared.
WHAT HE SUFFERED FROM
Two different diseases have been brought up as being behind his decline in health: Muscular dystrophy which is often of genetic and not necessarily fatal with treatment, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis whose causes are not usually known and which is always fatal.
ATTEMPTS AT TREATMENT AFTER BEING FREED
After Israel initially tried to block him being moved abroad for treatment, he went through treatment first in Jordan and then in Germany, and a surgery in occupied Palestine's Hebron. Any improvement in his health - it seems he briefly regained ability to speak - was soon lost.
SOURCES:
Family of released prisoner accuses Israel of causing him incurable illness
Family: Shawamreh was a victim of medical neglect in Israeli jails
Israel Allows Released Prisoner to Leave for Treatment in Jordan
Newly released Shawamreh hospitalized
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