Israel suspends detention of Palestinian lawyer who suffered brain damage
by Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem from World news | The Guardian on (#HW1V)
Detention of Mohammed Allan temporarily suspended after MRI scan shows brain injury following hunger strike over detention policy
Doctors treating a Palestinian lawyer who has been on hunger strike for 65 days in an Israeli prison say he suffered brain damage, prompting Israel's supreme court to rule it was temporarily suspending his detention.
An MRI scan was ordered for Mohammed Allan after a lawyer for the Israeli state told a supreme court hearing that Allan would be released immediately if he had irreversible brain damage.
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