Press Release
As a prisoner support organization, it is incumbent on us to stand with all Palestinian prisoners and to raise our voice against their subjugation at the hands of the occupation. This is exactly why we must make a clear statement, and take a principled stand on Gaza. Last night, 10 June 2018, a protest took place in the streets of Ramallah...
Ramallah – 7 June 2018 – Yesterday the Palestinian Military court sentenced the accused of assaulting a Palestinian citizen to ten days of detention. On 4 October 2016, the accused have assaulted Muhannad Karajah, Addameer’s lawyer, while he was documenting a non-violent protest in commemoration for al-Aqsa uprising. The military prosecution...
Hassan Mizher’s 18 th birthday took place one month before he was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces, on 7 April 2018. Since then, Hassan has been detained in Ofer awaiting trial. The main charge is stone throwing. From birth, Hassan has had a serious medical condition which mainly affects his liver and kidneys as a result of an inability...
The Israeli occupation forces bears full responsibility for the death of the prisoners Aziz Awisat (53 years old). On 9 May 2018, Aziz had a stroke when he was at the prisoner’s clinic at al-Ramleh. He was subsequently transferred to Assaf Huroufeh hospital where he died Sunday, 20 May 2018. Aziz’s lawyer, Khalid Mahajneh from the Prisoner’s Club...
It is with a heavy heart that we write this Nakba day statement. After the events of 14 May 2018, all words of condemnation seem insufficient and calls for action seem empty. The fact that this has been ongoing, cyclically, for 70 years is an outrage. From our perspective as a prisoner support organization, 70 years of Nakba represents 70 years of...
Today marks the 70 th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. This tragic event was not a singular incident, but rather is ongoing to this day. The transferring of the American Embassy to occupied Jerusalem yesterday, 14 May 2018, and the massacre in Gaza represent clear evidence of the ongoing violations of international law and Palestinian basic...
For the Palestinian people, 70 years of Nakba means seven decades of subjugation by Israel, characterized by occupation, apartheid and colonial policies and practices. It also attests to the chronic inaction and failure of the international community to fulfill its obligations and responsibilities under international law, to a lack of...
In the context of continued violations of international law, and the rights of the Palestinian people, Palestinian human rights organizations working on Prisoner issues (The Palestinian Prisoners Club, Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights organization, The Prisoners Commission and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights) recorded a total of 551...
Today, 3 May 2018, on the occasion of International World Press Freedom Day, freedom of thought and expression remain a constrained phenomena in the occupied Palestinian territory. While events are taking place around the world to commemorate the day, 26 journalists currently sit in occupation jails, a poet has been convicted of incitement in an...
Occupied Ramallah, 17 April 2018 – On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners Day, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association salutes the continued struggle of the over 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners currently being held in Israeli prisons. Every year Israel arrests thousands of Palestinians in an attempt to suppress the will to...