Administrative Detention
Addameer launches Stop Administrative Detention Campaign for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
1 month ago
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has created a new website of factsheets, materials, reports and invaluable information for all advocates for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, as part of its new campaign to stop administrative detention: www.stopadcampaign.com Join Addameer’s Global End Administrative Detention Campaign! Addameer calls on activists and people of conscience to stand in [...]
Israeli Apartheid Week Resources on Palestinian Prisoners: Factsheets, Posters, Leaflets
2 months ago
Israeli Apartheid Week is fast-approaching, and hundreds of cities and campuses around the world will be holding events throughout the week to expose the realities of Israeli apartheid, including the mass imprisonment, administrative detention, and torture of Palestinian prisoners. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the following materials to help support campus and community [...]
Former El-Bireh mayor held in administrative detention
4 months ago
Ma’an reported that a former Palestinian mayor detained by Israeli forces this week will be held in administrative detention for six months, a prisoners group said Sunday, January 20, 2013. Sheikh Jamal Tawil, who had held the mayoral post in al-Bireh, a neighborhood of Ramallah in the central West Bank, was detained on Tuesday. The [...]
Ayman Nasser’s detention extended additional eight days
6 months ago
Addameer reported that researcher Ayman Nasser’s detention was extended an additional eight days today, November 1, for continued interrogation, by an Israeli military court in the Moskobiya interrogation centre. For more information on Ayman Nasser’s case, and to take action, click here.
Loay Ashqar, tortured detainee, rearrested in occupation raid
8 months ago
Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, reported that at dawn on Monday, September 10, occupation military forces raided the home of Loay Ashqar in Saida, Tulkarem, arresting him and abducting him from his home. Loay Ashqar has been imprisoned 5 times in the past as an administrative detainee, without charge or trial. [...]
Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh’s administrative detention renewed for fourth time
8 months ago
The administrative detention of Palestinian writer and thinker Ahmed Qatamesh was renewed for a fourth time on September 5, 2012 by an occupation military court. Qatamesh was arrested on April 21, 2011 and his detention has been extended four times to date. This is not his first time in Israeli jails – he was arrested [...]
Hussam Khader released from administrative detention
8 months ago
Hussam Khader, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was released after 15 months of administrative detention without charge on Thursday, August 30, reported Ma’an. His family welcomed him at the al-Jamla checkpoint, his brother Ghassan told Ma’an. A former member of Fatah’s legislative council, Hussam Khader was detained from his home in Balata refugee camp [...]
Longest serving administrative detainee to be released July 15
10 months ago
Ma’an News reported that Adnan Asfur will be freed on Sunday, July 15: The longest serving Palestinian prisoner being held under administrative detention is set to be released on Sunday, a prisoners center said. Adnan Asfur, 50, has been held by Israeli authorities for over three years without being charged for a crime, director of [...]
Urgent: 83 Days of Hunger Strike- Take action for Palestinian prisoner Akram Al-Rikhawi!
10 months ago
Palestinian political prisoner Akram Al-Rikhawi is currently on his 83rd day of hunger strike, in severe danger of death. He is suffering from numerous medical conditions, including diabetes, asthma, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, glaucoma, kidney problems and immune deficiency. Addameer reports that “Prior to his arrest, Akram received injections of Kenacort to treat his asthma, but [...]
Israeli Supreme Court to consider Diab and Halahleh cases Thursday
1 year ago
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem will consider the appeal of imprisoned hunger strikers Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab on Thursday, May 3. Both are on their 63rd continuous day of hunger strike, in protest of administrative detention, under which both are held without charge or trial. Both are suffering serious health problems. Earlier, on [...]
