Reports
Al Moscabiyeh, in the heart of Jerusalem, represents the most notorious interrogation facility in all of histroical Palestine. Generations of Palestinians have experienced what it has to offer in regards of techniques of torture and dehumanisation. This report seeks to quantify the instances of torture, and mistreatment in the facility. Using first hand, a clear pattern is observed in regard to systematic mistreatment and torture of Palestinian detainees.
This report addresses the economic aspects of the imprisonment of over 800,000 Palestinians since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, with a particular focus on the role that prisons play in the maintenance of the regime of occupation, from 1985 until the present.
This report sheds light on the policy of Administrative detention, a procedure whereby a person is detained without charge or trial, by Israeli authorities. The report also provides a legal analysis of the practice as used in a systematic and widespread manner since the beginning of the second Intifada in 2000.
In July and August of 2014, Gaza held the world’s attention as Israel launched massive air strikes and ground attacks against that part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) over a period of 50 days. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that more than 2100 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli onslaught. This number does not include the many more who were wounded or traumatized as a result of the Israeli offensive. In response to the unrest...
Palestinian prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation’s jails suffer from a multitude of violations of their rights enshrined in international norms and conventions, which are composed of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL).They are subjected to physical and psychological torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman forms of treatment and punishment. Palestinian and international human rights organizations have documented over 100 methods of...
Administrative detention is a procedure under which detainees are held without charge or trial. No charges are filed, and there is no intention of bringing the detainee to trial. In accordance with the detention order, a detainee is given a specific term of detention. On or before the expiry of the term, the detention order is frequently renewed. This process can be continued indefinitely.
Documentation of prison life is widely recognized as a vital tool to build the collective conscience and to confront the unlawful suppression and denial of Palestinians’ political and legal rights. To date, however, little research has addressed the particular conditions for Palestinian political prisoners from occupied East Jerusalem. In 2008 Addameer published a special paper on the socio-economic and legal challenges facing Jerusalemite prisoners in an effort to fill this gap [1]. The...
This booklet encompasses a series of reflections on the experience of Addameer volunteers and associates who visited the Israeli military courts situated in the occupied Palestinian territory, from 2009 to 2011. The contributors were asked to write about what they saw and how they felt during their time at the court, where they witnessed hearings for Palestinians accused of stone-throwing, involvement in demonstrations and other political activities deemed an offense according to Israeli...
This report examines the phenomenon of political arrests in the West Bank by the Palestinian Authority’s security forces - the General Intelligence Service, the Preventive Security Force and to a lesser degree the Military Intelligence. Addameer’s research covers the period from January 2009 to September 2010, during which time Addameer monitored, documented, followed up and legally represented 347 detainees.
This research paper outlines the general principles and procedural safeguards governing administrative detention in international law with the aim of revealing the ways in which the Israeli Occupying Forces’ use of administrative detention in the occupied Palestinian territory violates these provisions.