Human Rights Groups Petition against Force Feeding

On September 6, 2015, four human-rights organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and HaMoked, petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court to revoke the amendment to the Prisons Ordinance, “Preventing Hunger-Strike Damages”, which was recently approved by the Knesset. In the petition, the organizations claim that the amendment purports to be legislation concerned with saving the lives of…