Press Release
Today marks the twenty-first day that Bilal Diab has been undertaking a hunger strike against his administrative detention. Having been held without charge for a year and hunger striking for 78 days in 2012, Bilal was rearrested by occupation forces on 14 July 2017. He was given a six month administrative detention order, without being informed of...
A joint, monthly report released by Adameer, The Prisoner's Club, and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights has revealed that 431 Palestinians were arrested by the occupation forces in the month of September 2017. Of these 431, 98 were children, 11 were women, and 3 were journalists. 133 were arrested from Jerusalem governorate, 60 from the Hebron...
On 17 September 2017, Salah Hammouri had his final hearing in the Jerusalem district court. The outcome was a foregone conclusion after, on 12 September 2017, the prosecution successfully appealed a decision that sought to reinstate his sentence from 2005, under which he would serve three months in prison. His initial administrative detention...
Palestinian prisoners’ institutions released their monthly report on Palestinian prisoners and detainees of the Israeli occupation for August 2017. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission compiled the report below. In August...
Since the introduction of the Presidential decree, entitled the ‘Electronic Crimes Law’, we have seen a number of detainments predicated on its contents. Though, we have yet to see someone being directly charged under it and how the law itself will be applied in legal proceedings. Issa Amro represents the first such case. Issa has been charged...
The oppressive nature of the occupation has been with us since 1948. None of its actions come as a shock to us, whether it be the continued suffocating of Gaza or mass incarceration in the West Bank. That said, the past few months have represented something of a shift. The policy of security cooperation between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and...
Salah Hamouri will have what seems to be his final appeal hearing on 12 September at the Israeli High Court. The appeal does not come from our legal team, but rather is the Israeli prosecution seeking to reinstate the six-month administrative detention order that was initially handed down to Salah on 29 August 2017. There is no best outcome here...
Addameer’s field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri has received a six months administrative detention order, which is set to end on 22 February 2018. Initially, the Israeli Magistrate Court of Jerusalem has ordered the conditional release of Hamouri though, less than half an hour later, he was issued with the order. According to...
According to a joint report issued by The Palestinian Prisoners Society, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and the Prisoners Affairs Commission, in the month of June 2017, 388 Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem were seized by Israeli occupation forces, including 70...
Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association strongly condemns the detention of Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, president of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees. According to Addmaeer’s attorney, Jarrar and Saafin were arrested by Israeli occupation forces, who invaded their family homes...