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Tulkarem – The Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights
called attention to the urgent case of a 52-year-old Physics Professor
in an Israeli prison suffering from a bevy of untreated medical
problems, including kidney disease and high blood pressure, a report
said.

Director of the center, Fuad Al-Khufesh, described the failure of
Israeli prison officials to treat the man as “medical negligence,” and
said Israel would be held accountable for his health and well being.

The prisoner, professor of physics at An-Najah National University
in Nablus, Isam Rashed Al-Ashqa, is from the town of Seida in the
Tulkarem governorate.

“Rashed is slowly dying … because of medical negligence and lack of
medications,” Al-Khufesh said, noting the professor only receives light
painkillers for treatment.

Rashed obtained his bachelor of sciences in Physics from the
Jordanian University in Al-Yarmouk in 1980 and his master of science
from the University of Jordan in 1982. He went on to teach at An-Najah
between 1982-4, and then traveled to the US for his doctoral studies at
Toledo University, Ohio.

When he returned from Ohio, Rashed founded the department of Physics
at An-Najah.

Rashed has been under administrative detention since 19 March 2009.
He has not stood before a judge and has not been charged. This is his
third detention.<... >>>