As many as 90 per cent of Palestinian prisoners have been subjected to various types of torture and abuse in Israeli jails, a report revealed yesterday. The report by the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, which came on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, highlighted the increasing […]
KUALA LUMPUR, June 30, 2015: Majdi Amro, 36, is lucky compared with his brothers and sisters left in Gaza, Palestine, who still have to live in uncertainty every day of their lives. But luck wasn’t always on his side. When he was 16, unlike other teenagers, Majdi was sent to prison for allegedly throwing stones […]
Khader Adnan will end his 55-day long hunger strike and will be released on July 12, his lawyer tells Al Jazeera. Hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner, Khader Adnan, will be released in two weeks from Israeli prison, his legal counsel has confirmed with Al Jazeera. Adnan has agreed to end his 55-day long hunger strike, and is […]
Palestinians are calling for urgent international intervention to save the life of Khader Adnan who has been on total hunger strike for almost 50 days to protest his detention without charge or trial by Israel. Last week, Adnan’s family sent a letter to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urging pressure on Israel to free […]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)- Around 95,000 under-aged Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli authorities with no legal mandate or proper trial since 1967, a United Nations humanitarian study said Wednesday. A report conducted by the Military Court Watch says that since the imposing of martial law by Israel in 1967, the occupied West Bank has witnessed […]
Maali was only 4 years old when her father, Khader Adnan, embarked on a 66-day hunger strike in protest at being held without charge or trial, a practice known as administrative detention, after his December 2011 arrest by Israeli occupation forces. All she could understand back then was that her father was starving himself to […]
Israeli soldiers installed, Wednesday, a sudden roadblock at the main entrance of Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped one child, who also holds an American citizenship. The soldiers also detained a young man for a few hours. The child’s mother said the soldiers stopped a car transporting her […]
Rula Abu Duhou, a 46-year-old lecturer at the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, describes the nine years she spent in Israeli prison as the “the most important years” of her life. Then a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Duhou was […]
You wake up very early, put on your best clothes and get ready for a long anticipated visit. Begins, with the early start of the journey, a recollection of events and a recalling of memories. For many, this will be their only opportunity to see loved ones held in Israeli prisons; others are denied those […]
Shereen Al-Issawi has being held in solitary confinement since the beginning of May and her family have been prevented from visiting her, the Palestinian Prisoners Club revealed yesterday. The Club’s lawyer, who visited captive Al-Issawi in her cell in the Neve Tirza prison, quoted her as saying she is being held in a room that […]
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