Iran Foreign Ministry:
Zionist regime must stop arbitrary detention

"For 3months, Maher Al-Akras has been detained without any charges," the Iranian Foreign Ministry wrote in a message on its Twitter account on Sunday, as the Palestinian captive is passing his 90th day of hunger strike.

"Despite his hunger strike and international outcry, the Israeli regime has refused to end his unjustified detention. The occupiers must end arbitrary detentions and free him and 100s of Palestinians unjustly held," it stressed.

Palestinian prisoner Maher Al-Akhras, 49, from Silat al-Dhahr town, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, entered his 90th consecutive day in his open hunger strike on Saturday, protesting his administrative detention.

In the meantime, Michael Link, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, called on the Israeli regime to immediately release Akhras.

Link said in a statement on Friday that the Israeli police that arrested and detained Akhras did not present any convincing evidence in an open court to justify their claims that he poses a security risk.