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Addameer - Ramallah: Eight days into the hunger strike announced by the Palestinian political prisoners in the occupation prisons, an agreement was reached, on Monday, April 15, 2019, between the occupation prisons administration and the prisoners’ representatives. The agreement came after a series of intensive dialogue sessions. It includes...
Addameer - Ramallah: Addameer has been following up, for three weeks, the hunger strike of three Palestinian prisoners protesting the repeated renewal of their administrative detention orders. Hossam Ruzza, 61-years-old, has been on hunger strike since March 19, while Mohammad Tabanga, 40-years-old, and Khaled Farraj, 31-years-old, began their...
Addameer - Ramallah: The Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike is still ongoing to this moment, as confirmed by Addameer on Tuesday, 9 April 2019. Addameer also confirmed that there are currently around 400 hunger strikers in the Israeli prisons of Ofer, Gilboa, Magido, Eishel, Naqab, Rimon and Nafha. As it continues to monitor and document the...
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons started yesterday, 8 April 2019, an open hunger strike after several days of negotiations between the prisoners’ representatives and the prison administration. The negotiations failed which led the prisoners to launch an open hunger strike on the evening of Monday, 8 April 2019. Since September 2018, the...
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons have launched a mass hunger strike on 8 April 2019. The call for the hunger strike comes after months of serious deterioration in detention conditions specifically after the Israeli Minister Gilad Erdan formed a committee precisely to lower the standards of detention conditions for Palestinians...
Addameer-Ramallah: The Israeli Military Court decided, on 31 March 2019, to extend the detention of Hafez Omar, for an additional five days until Thursday, 4 April 2019. Addameer was able to visit Hafez Omar after the occupation authorities banned him from meeting with a lawyer for 20 days, since his arrest on 13 March 2019. Hafez remains under...
Addameer – Ramallah, occupied Palestine The Israeli Military Court rejected Addameer’s petition to the Israeli High Court to lift the lawyer’s ban on artist and organizer Hafez Omar, who has been held incommunicado since his arrest on 13 March 2019 and has extended his detention and interrogation for an additional five days. His lawyer’s ban has...
Addameer, as part of a group from Palestinian civil society, recently attended the 40 th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. As part of this coalition, we engaged directly with the proceedings on human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, delivered several oral statements, conducted meetings with diplomatic representatives...
Addameer - Ramallah: The Israeli Occupation Forces raided section 4 in the Naqab desert prison, yesterday night, March 24, 2019. The raid was accompanied by physical aggression on the prisoners, which led to a number of injuries, some of which were transferred to the hospital. The raid took place following the Israeli occupation forces' attempt to...
Ramallah-Addameer: Addameer lawyer, Muhannad Karajeh, said that the General Intelligence Agency in Ramallah prevented him on Sunday from visiting the Islamic Jihad leader, Riyad Abu Safiya. He was detained since yesterday after being summoned for an interview. The lawyer said that he went to visit Abu Safiya for him to sign the power of attorney...