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‘Don’t Let Hunger-Strikers Die in Prison’(12:48)
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Protestors shout slogans during a demonstration in support of Palestinian Khader Adnan, a senior member of Islamic Jihad who is jailed in Israel without a trial in Gaza city on June 7, 2015. Photo: Aaed Tayeh/Flash90
Professor Shimon Glick discusses with VOI's Yishai Fleisher the place of Jewish law, morality and medical ethics in the force-feeding of prisoners.
After a 56-day hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention, Palestinian Khader Adnan was released. But did the Israeli authorities let him off too easy? Professor Glick, former dean of the Ben Gurion University Faculty of Health Sciences and a former Ombudsman for Israel’s National Health Service, says he was.
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