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Arab News
04-05-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Palestinian detainee Najem dies in Israeli custody after medical negligence
LONDON: A Palestinian prisoner died on Sunday at Israel's Soroka Medical Center after spending more than a year and a half in indefinite administrative detention, the Wafa news agency reported. Mohyee al-Din Fahmi Najem, 60, was detained on Aug. 8, 2023 under administrative detention, a practice that allows Israeli authorities to hold individuals in prison without trial for six months, subject to indefinite renewals. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, said Najem died after suffering from medical neglect in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian Authority's affiliated groups said that Najem 'suffered from chronic illnesses and was denied proper medical care during his incarceration.' Najem was a father of six from Jenin town, in the northern occupied West Bank, who has spent 19 years in Israeli prisons because of his political activism. During a March prison visit, he was unable to walk without assistance, according to the commission and the Prisoners' Society. They accused Israeli authorities of 'compound crimes' during Najem's prolonged detention, and medical negligence. He was previously held in the notorious Negev Prison, known for its outbreaks of scabies last November and poor hygiene and medical infrastructure. Najem is the 66th Palestinian prisoner to die in an Israeli prison since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023. Among those who died, 40 were from the Gaza Strip. Since Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967, 303 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli custody, with 75 of those bodies still being withheld by Israel.
Local Sweden
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Local Sweden
Swedish media report Quran-burner Salwan Momika shot dead
Police were called out to the shooting at 11.11pm on Wednesday. Swedish media report that the man was Salwan Momika, an Iraqi activist who burned copies of the Quran at a string of protests in 2023. He had been charged along with another activist, Salwan Najem, for hate crimes (hets mot folkgrupp) with Stockholm District Court scheduled to pass judgement on the case at 11am on Thursday. Among other things, the two reportedly burned a Quran, wrapped it in pork and kicked it around on the ground. They also, according to the prosecutor, made comments which could qualify as hets mot folkgrupp, literally "inciting hatred against a group of people". Expressen reports that the police were in contact with Najem early on Thursday morning. "They told me that he's been shot and is dead," Najem told the tabloid. According to Dagens Nyheter (DN), Momika was shot while he was broadcasting live on social media. Police declined to confirm, saying they were investigating the reports. They also declined to confirm the man's identity or the status of his injuries when questioned by DN, although Stockholm District Court has delayed passing judgement on the case until February 3rd as "one of the defendants has passed away". Five people are being held in connection with the shooting, the TT newswire reports. Sweden's Quran burnings Momika and Najem's Quran burnings sparked widespread outrage and condemnation in Muslim countries. Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July 2023, starting fires within the compound on the second occasion. The Swedish government condemned the desecrations of the Quran but stressed the country's laws regarding freedom of speech and assembly. Sweden's intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level in the summer of 2023 to four on a scale of five after the angry reactions made the country a "prioritised target". The Swedish Migration Agency revoked Momika's residency permit in October 2023, citing false information in his original application, but he was granted a temporary one as it said there was an "impediment to enforcement" of a deportation to Iraq. The month before, Iraq had requested his extradition over one of the Quran burnings. Momika moved from Sweden to Norway in March in 2023, planning to seek asylum after his residency permit in Sweden was revoked. He was arrested in Norway one day after arriving and detained before he was deported back to Sweden in April that year, where he was granted a one-year residence permit.
