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The administrative detention of Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal has been limited to one and a half month during his confirmation hearing, which was held yesterday 22 November 2016. Mr. Nazzal is expected to be released on 24 December 2016. Occupation forces arrested the journalist Omar Nazzal, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, and president of the Democratic Journalists Union on 23 April 2016, from the Allenby Bridge while en route to participation in the European Federation of Journalists General Meeting.
Hunger strikes have long been used in various geographical settings as means to protest oppressive conditions and demand basic rights. The long history of Palestinian prisoners in mass and individual hunger strikes, reveals the lack of trust in any judicial process and the lack of fair trial guarantees they face under the military and civil court systems of the Israeli occupation. Palestinian prisoners and detainees have resorted to hunger strikes as early as 1968 as a legitimate peaceful protest to Israeli detention policies and cruel detention conditions including the use of solitary confinement, denial of family visits, inadequate medical treatment and torture and other forms of cruel,...
The administrative detention of Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal was renewed for an additional three months for the second time today, Monday 21 November 2016. An administrative detention order was initially issued on 02 May 2016 against Mr. Nazzal, which was set to end on 22 August 2016, but was renewed for an additional three months. Occupation forces arrested the journalist Omar Nazzal, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, and president of the Democratic Journalists Union on 23 April 2016, from the Allenby Bridge while en route to participation in the European Federation of Journalists General Meeting. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights...
On 17 November 2016, Addameer director Sahar Francis addressed the European Parliament on the issue of Palestinian child prisoners and detainees. The talk specifically focused on the issue of the increasing use of administrative detention, detention without charge or trial. The practice has alarmingly increased against Palestinian children since October 2015, with an estimated 20 administrative detention orders issued against children and approximately eight children currently under administrative detention. Adv. Francis also called upon the European Union to address the protracted occupation and its violations against the Palestinians, including lack of fair trial in military courts and...
Baha'a Najjar, 21, from Hebron has been rearrested one week following his release. He was arrested on 4 November 2015 and placed under administrative detention in Ofer prison and was released on 2 November 2016. After spending a year under administrative detention, he was rearrested on 9 November 2016. This constitutes an arbitrary detention, where detainees get their administrative detention order renewed moments before their scheduled release (e.g. Shaher Al-Rai) or they are rearrested shortly following their release.
Israa’ Ja’abees has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The 31-year-old of Jabal Mukaber, currently held in HaSharon prison suffers from medical negligence and lack of sufficient treatment. She was arrested after her car broke down near Al-Zayem military checkpoint on 10 October 2015, where her airbag exploded causing a fire that led to her severe burns and injuries. Israa’ was with her 8-year-old child when the incident occurred and later she was transferred to Ein Karem Hospital, where she was given inadequate medical treatment despite suffering from severe injuries. Two months later, Israa’ was transferred to Al-Ramleh prison, then to HaSharon prison without completing her essential...
14-year-old Ahmad Manasrah was sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempted murder. Two other Palestinian children, 15-year-old Monther Abu Mayalah and 16-year-old Mohammad Taha were also sentenced in the Jerusalem District Court today for 11 years in prison each, and 50,000 NIS compensation.
Director of Addameer Adv. Sahar Francis participates in Panel and meets Pope Francis at the Third World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican (4-5 November 2016) Director Sahar Francis met Pope Francis at Third World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican on 5 November 2016. On 04 November, she was featured in a panel which focused on "Displaced Persons and Refugees", and addressed the law and respect to a dignified life is essential for individuals. On the third day of the workshop, the speakers mentioned the tragedy of two new shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, which resulted in the loss of the lives of more than two hundred people. On this occasion, delegates heard interventions...
After Addameer’s submitted an appeal to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the latter has declared that Israel’s imprisonment of a Palestinian child without charge or trial constitutes arbitrary detention. The Working Group issued 21opinions on 3 November 2016, one of them highlighted the case of 16-year-old H.H form Ramallah, who was detained without charge or trial in February of this year, with his administrative detention renewed by the occupation authorities three different times. The Israeli government was asked on 16 June by the Working Group to address the case, but never replied. According to the Working Group, Israel’s “non-observance of the international norms relating...
The Israeli Military Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal submitted by Addameer against the extension of interrogation of Mr. Salah Khawaja, who was arrested on Wednesday 26 October 2016. Israeli Forces raided the house of Mr. Salah Khawaja, located in central Ramallah, and caused destruction in the property, after which Mr. Khawaja was arrested and taken into military custody. During the raid, Israeli Forces entered into the neighborhood and sprayed tear gas that caused suffocation among different families. Mr. Khawaja is part of the coordinating committee of the Popular Campaign against the Wall and Settlements and a member of the Secretariat of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...