Palestinian lawmaker sentenced to 20 months in jail

Ma’an news Agency | Aug 18, 2014 at 23:38 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court in Ofer prison on Monday sentenced Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem Ahmad Attoun to 20 months in prison. Attoun’s family said he was arrested from his Ramallah home in February 2012, and was put under administrative detention. He was sentenced […]

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MP Abdel Jaber Fuqaha’s administrative detention extended by Israel for 2nd time

[ PIC 22/11/2013 – 05:30 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) have extended the administrative detention of MP Abdel Jaber Fuqaha, 47, for the second time in a row. Director of Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies, Fouad Khuffash, stated that MP Fuqaha who was arrested in June 2013 was turned to administrative detention. […]

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Israel renews administrative detention of 7 captives

[ PIC 23/05/2013 – 09:27 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Tadhamun Foundation for Human Rights reported that the Israeli occupation authorities renewed on Wednesday the administrative detention of 7 Palestinian prisoners. According to the Foundation’s lawyer for administrative detainees Osama Maqboul, the occupation authorities extended the administrative detention of four prisoners to 6 more months, two […]

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Israeli occupation extends detention of 66-year-old administrative detainee

[ PIC 16/05/2013 – 10:49 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities renewed administrative detention of 66-year-old Sheikh Adel Shanyur, a Hamas leader, for four more months. Shanyur’s wife said that the Negev prison administration informed the Sheikh of the renewal of his administrative detention, without trial or charge, for the second time. She […]

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Israeli occupation extends detention of 11 Jerusalemites

[PIC 20/02/2013 – 09:16 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The so-called Israeli Magistrate and District Courts in occupied Jerusalem has renewed on Tuesday the detention of 11 Jerusalemites from different parts of the occupied city of Jerusalem, human rights sources confirmed. Damir Foundation for Human Rights said in a press statement on Wednesday that the […]

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Israel renews the journalist Abu Arafah’s administrative detention

[ PIC 07/02/2013 – 08:02 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Ahrar center for Prisoners studies and human rights has appealed Reporters Without Borders, the Federation of Arab Journalists and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, to immediately intervene to stop the suffering of captive journalist Amer Abu Arafah, 29, from al-Khalil. Abu Arafah’s administrative detention has been renewed […]

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Israel turns the prisoner Zarir’s to administrative detention

#FreeSamer | Join global action for #PalHunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 25/01/2013 – 07:39 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Studies reported that the Israeli courts refused the appeal presented by lawyer of the prisoner MP Ahmad Zarir, 51, from the town of Samu, south of al-Khalil. The Center said in […]

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Occupation releases Riad Nasser after two years in illegal administrative detention

[ PIC 08/10/2012 – 03:52 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday evening, the leader Riad Nasser from the town of Deir Qadis near Ramallah, after two years of administrative detention without charge or trial, al-Ahrar Center for Prisoners studies and Human Rights said. The center said that the detainee Riad […]

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Israeli occupation release Palestinian MP Ahmad Haj Ali after 16 months administrative detention, no charges

[ PIC 04/10/2012 – 12:38 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority released on Thursday morning the Palestinian lawmaker Ahmad Haj Ali (74 years) from Megiddo prison after a 16-month administrative detention, without charge or trial. Hundreds of people and Islamic MPs gathered at the Salem military roadblock, west of Jenin, to welcome the […]

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PA’s apparatuses arrest 2 Hamas supporters and extend the arrest of administrative detainee

[ PIC 17/09/2012 – 11:04 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Palestinian Authority security apparatus arrested a leader in Hamas Movement in Tulkarm and a liberated prisoners in Nablus, and extended the detention of a political prisoner in Ramallah. The Preventive Security apparatus arrested in Tulkarem Adnan al-Hosari, one of the prominent leaders in the […]

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IOA renews administrative detention of Hamas leader Faze’ Sawafte

[ PIC 11/08/2012 – 11:11 AM ] TOBAS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has renewed the administrative detention of Faze’ Sawafte, a Hamas leader, for the second time running, the Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights said. Fuad Al-Khafsh, director of the center, said that Sawafte was arrested on 9/2/2012 and held […]

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IOA holds university lecturer Dr. Mohammed Izzat Yahya Sayed in administrative detention

[ PIC 07/08/2012 – 12:12 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights affirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) have recently issued a decision holding a Palestinian university lecturer in administrative detention after ending his sentence period. Ahmed Beitawi, a researcher at the foundation, stated that the Israeli military commander, at the […]

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Israeli Nahshon unit attacks administrative detainees in Ofer

[ PIC 25/07/2012 – 12:11 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli soldiers of the Nahshon unit attacked on Tuesday a group of Palestinian administrative prisoners for refusing to leave the prison towards the court dressed in prison uniform. The lawyer Jawad Boulos said he saw soldiers assaulting a number of his clients after they refused to […]

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The IFIP demands release of Palestinian MPs

[ 23/07/2012 – 10:28 AM ] GAZA,(PIC)– The International Forum for Islamist Parliamentarians (IFIP) congratulated Dr. Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), for his release from Israeli prisons, pointing out that his arrest by the Israeli occupation forces was in total violation of his parliamentary immunity. Hussein Ibrahim, IFIP chairman, denounced […]

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The IOF arrests Hamas leader and six citizens from the West Bank

[ 14/07/2012 – 02:10 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested during the last two days a Hamas leader and six Palestinians from different districts in the West Bank, and set up checkpoints at several main crossroads. The IOF soldiers arrested on Saturday morning a Palestinian citizen at Etzion crossroad in the […]

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