Dr. Ashrawi's letter to UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay
12 April 2013 in 2013
![357](/assets/SilverWare/News/Article/2013/_resampled/CroppedImage300300-357.jpg)
Sent on April 7, this letter discusses the tragic death of the Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh and Israel's deliberate negligence of the medical conditions of Palestinian prisoners . It also stresses that Israel and other members of the international community must comply with the Geneva Conventions and establish anindependent international fact-finding mission to investigate the circumstances surrounding Abu Hamdiyeh's death and the other Palestinian political prisoners who have died in Israeli prisons.
For the full letter click here.