Israel returns Palestinian ex-hunger striker to detention without trial


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  • Wednesday, 16 Sep 2015

A Bedouin demonstrator holds a sign during a protest in the southern town of Rahat, Israel, in support of Islamic Jihad activist Mohammed Allan, who is in the ninth week of a hunger strike against his detention without trial, August 18, 2015. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel returned a Palestinian security detainee to prison on Wednesday after deeming him sufficiently recovered in hospital from a 65-day hunger strike that he began to protest being held without trial.

A relative said Mohammed Allan was resuming his fast now that he was again in custody.

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