Hunger strikes by seven Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in protest at their conditions continue after 30 days. The prisoners are held under Israel’s administrative detention policy which allows authorities to detain Palestinians without trial indefinitely. The Prisoners’ and Former Prisoners’ Affairs Committee says the health condition of the prisoners who are kept in solitary […]
Rami Barghouthi: a Palestinian who participated in an open hunger strike launched by the administrative detainees in protest of administrative detention policy. Barghouthi stayed on hunger strike for 27 days before he was released. The mass hunger strike lasted a total of 63 days. رامي البرغوثي: معتقل اداري فلسطيني شارك في الاضراب المفتوح عن الطعام […]
Journalist Maram Salem has been engaged to Dia’ Hroub since 2012. Dia’ was arrested on 25 July 2014 and put under administrative detention. His order can be renewed indefinitely.
More than 200 trade unions and campaign groups from 23 countries have called on the UN to cancel its contracts with G4S over the security firm’s track participation in human rights abuses against Palestinians. The call comes at a time when Israel has stepped up its ill-treatment of hunger strikers, some of whom are held […]
On their twentieth day of hunger strike, five Palestinian prisoners held in administrative detention without charge or trial in Israeli jails continued to demand their freedom and an end to the policy of administrative detention that currently imprisons 480 Palestinians. In addition, 70 more administrative detainees joined the boycott of detention hearings in the military […]
I went on hunger strike two times. The first time was for twenty-one days and the second for twenty-eight days. It was because the Prison Administration put our friends in solitary confinement for years, preventing them from seeing anybody. We were trying to get them released to the public area of the prison, with us. […]
This film, by Palestinian filmmaker Osama Abed, interviews and presents the story of Lina Khattab, Palestinian student activist and former political prisoner. 11 minutes, Audio in Arabic with English subtitles.
Samer Issawi, Palestinian prisoner and long-term hunger striker, launched a hunger strike in solidarity with imprisoned Palestinian lawyer Muhammad Allan on Sunday, 16 August, demanding his immediate release from administrative detention. Allan has been on hunger strike for over two months demanding his freedom; he is currently comatose and facing a medical crisis in Barzilai […]
60-year-old Palestinian detainee Fathiya Khanfer, from Jenin, has been subjected to excruciating detention circumstances in the Israeli solitary lock-down of Neve Tirza, a human rights group reported Tuesday. “Prisoner Khanfer is suffering from many diseases, most notably hypertension, and has undergone several surgeries right before her arrest,” a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner Society said. […]
The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat urges all of its friends and supporters around the world, and all global movements for justice, freedom and liberation, to take action, protest and demand freedom for Muhammad Allan, Palestinian lawyer held in Israeli administrative detention without charge or trial, now in a coma and struggling for both his […]
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