The Committee of the Families of Political Prisoners in the West Bank:
We express our deep concern and condemnation of the sharp deterioration in the health condition of the released prisoner Abdel Rahman Shteyeh, and his transfer to the hospital immediately after his release from the prisons of the thwarted security service, following a stroke that caused him to lose the ability to move his right arm and leg, according to his family.
We note that Shteyeh spent many years in Israel's prisons, and his last arrest lasted three years, and only four months passed after his release before he was arrested again by the Palestinian Authority.
We will clarify that he spent 13 days in detention at the thwarted security service, without a clear indictment being filed or any legal justification for his detention revealed.
We confirm that what happened causes great concern, since his release was not a return to his home and family, but a transfer from a place of detention to a hospital bed, in a painful scene that reflects the suffering of political detainees.