Overview

• More than 100 faith-based, civil rights and human rights organizations sent an August 26 letter pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to secure Mohammed Ibrahim’s immediate release.
• The coalition says attorneys report the 16-year-old has scabies, has lost over 30 pounds, and has been denied food and medical treatment, warning his life is at risk.
• Israeli authorities detained Ibrahim in February at age 15 on allegations of rock-throwing and have held him without trial.
• His family says they have been barred from seeing or speaking with him for over six months; his father met the U.S. ambassador to Israel, and no U.S. intervention to secure his release has been reported.
• Ibrahim was moved from Moscovia to Megiddo and in mid-August to Ofer prison, which groups describe as notorious for abuses, as court proceedings face delays with a decision still pending; CAIR-Florida highlighted the case at a Tampa press event.