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High Court rejects petition on behalf of striking prisoners
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent

The High Court of Justice rejected a petition Tuesday calling on prison authorities to refrain from confiscating salt from Palestinian inmates conducting a hunger strike. The reasons for the ruling will be given separately.
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Abir Bachar, an attorney for Adalah, said that salt is necessary in order to preserve the health of the prisoners and is not "an act of kindness" like distributing chocolate.

Bachar said the Prisons Service has admitted that denial of salt is excessive punishment that falls outside the disciplinary measures that they are permitted to mete out. Permitted punishments include reprimands, solitary confinement, and fines.

The state said that beginning this week, the Prisons Service permitted the striking inmates to use salt, in effect rendering the petition unnecessary.

The High Court will hear a petition Wednesday from Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to give the strikers access to their lawyers. The groups say prison authorities have acknowledged denying such access, in some cases, as punishment for the prisoners' refusal to eat.
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