OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Nafha society catering for prisoners' rights has appealed to legal organizations worldwide to save the remaining eyesight of Shehda Tawam who is held in the Israeli desert prison of Negev since September 2005 without charge or trial.

Tawam, who hails from the occupied Jerusalem district village of Jaba, is the father of seven children the youngest being a 6-year-old. He was arrested on 27/9/2005 and held in administive detention since then at the pretext of the presence of a "secret" security file against him.

Liberated prisoner Omar Salim, who was released a few months ago from Negev, said that Tawam had lost 90% of his eyesight and the prison authority did not treat him properly despite his repeated demands.

Um Mohammed, wife of Tawam, said that her husband was planning a surgery in his eyes, shortly before his arrest, when he sensed a great deterioration in his sight. She charged that her husband was now almost blind thanks to the Israeli prisons authority.

She appealed the Nafha society in a telephone contact to urge human rights societies and the Red Cross to interfere the soonest for the sake of releasing her husband and providing him with necessary treatment.