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Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat was released on bail on Monday 13 December.

There were heated exchanges in a court in Northern Ireland on Monday over an ongoing bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat, who is in Maghaberry Prison awaiting trial on "terrorism" charges. Dr Bassalat has suffered a heart attack in prison.  The court heard that he is at "substantial excess risk of further cardio-vascular events, including death."

A court in Northern Ireland heard today, Wednesday 13 October, that Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat has suffered a heart attack. Dr Bassalat was due to appear by video link at a case management hearing at Dungannon Magistrates Court, along with nine other defendants charged as a result of Operation Arbacia.

Dr Issam Bassalat, a Scottish Palestinian man facing terrorism charges in Northern Ireland, has issued an appeal for human rights organisations to monitor his case.

Issam Bassalat has finally had the surgery he needs for his spinal problem. The operation appears to have been completely successful and has brought him great relief. But the circumstances surrounding the operation are very troubling.

Letter to the Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish Government calling on ministers to take urgent steps to facilitate medical treatment for Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, a Scottish Palestinian prisoner in Maghaberry Prison.

A bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat has been rejected. Issam Bassalat is a Palestinian doctor from Edinburgh. He is in severe pain as a result of a spinal injury and would have sought treatment in Scotland if his application had been granted.

"This inquiry must be prepared to go where no inquiry has gone before", says Aamer Anwar following the opening of the public inquiry into that death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh

Sheku Bayoh’s family welcome the statement by Humza Yousaf on Lord Bracadale’s Public Inquiry into the death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh.

Statement issued at the start of the Lockerbie appeal by appeal lawyer Aamer Anwar on behalf of his clients, the family of the late Al-Megrahi and some of the families of the British victims.

A Palestinian man held on remand in Maghaberry Prison has been in severe pain for weeks and now needs crutches as a result of the prison's neglect of his medical needs. A friend has described his treatment as tantamount to "torture."

SACC and other concerned groups and individuals have written to the Governor of Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland, urging him to arrange specialist medical attention for Dr Issam Hijawi Bassalat.

Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat's application for bail was rejected by the High Court in Belfast yesterday

SACC is becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, an Edinburgh man who has been on hunger strike in Maghaberry Prison, Northern Ireland since 16 September

Issam Hijjawi has been on hunger strike in Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland since 16 September. He must be released from prison and the charges against him must be dropped

SACC is dismayed at the prosecution of Palestinian doctor Issam Hijjawi Basalat under a controversial provision of the UK’s anti-terrorism legislation.

On Sunday 12 July Black Lives Matter held a protest outside the Scottish Parliament in solidarity with Scotland's Sudanese people against racism and the hostile environment.

SACC is one of the organisations supporting an open letter

A group of refugees and asylum-seekers from Glasgow have set up a new campaign in response to the deep wounds the city has suffered as a direct result of inhumane treatment of people who seek asylum in the UK

SACC gives a cautious welcome to the forthcoming public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh. But we believe that the inquiry’s remit is only just wide enough for the task it must confront. If the inquiry is to succeed it will need to exercise its remit with boldness and determination.