They told my imprisoned brother that I was dead – Mondoweiss

Today is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. My brother, Assem Hanaysha, has been in administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — for over a year now. During the month of Ramadan last March, a heavy piece of news reached him in the cells of the Naqab prison: that I, his sister Shatha, had been killed.

The news reached my brother as he languished in conditions lacking the most basic necessities of life, and with no means of verifying the information or…