Detainees Society calls for the release of cancer patient from Negev Prison

Date: 12 / 05 / 2009 Time: 18:43

Tubas – Ma’an – The detainees’ society in Tubas appealed the human rights organizations to intervene on behalf of Abdullah Hamid Bani Odeh from Tammoun village, a cancer sufferer detained in Israeli prison and being denied proper medical treatment.

Head of the detainees society Mahmoud Sawafta noted that Odeh is being held in Israel’s Negev prison which does not have a medical facility.
“The life of Odeh is in the hands of the Israeli prison administration,” said Sawafta, “if something happens to him it is on their heads.”