RAMALLAH, April 11, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities issued administrative detention orders to 35 Palestinian detainees, said Monday Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) in a press release.
PPS said while fifteen out of the 35 detainees received administrative detention orders for the duration of six months, 13 others received administrative detention for 13 months. It said many of them had been already detained for months or years.
|
Name |
City |
Duration of Detention Order |
|
Baha’ Abdul-Rahman |
Jerusalem |
3 months |
|
Adnan Asfour |
Nablus |
6 months |
|
Mahmoud Shweiki |
Bethlehem |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Muhtaseb |
Hebron |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Ahmad Ishteiwi |
Ramallah |
Four months (renewed order) |
|
Hamdi Khatatba |
Nablus |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Masalma |
Hebron |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Ahmad Awad |
Nablus |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Maher Jaradat |
Hebron |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Abbas Fatayer |
Nablus |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Abdul-Jaber Jarrar |
Jenin |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Fadi Srour |
Hebron |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Samer Halabi |
Ramallah |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Ahmad al-Eweiwi |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Malek Ebayyat |
Bethlehem |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Shaher al-Hih |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Anas Abu-Markhiyya |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Laban |
Jerusalem |
3 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Atatra |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Musa Amra |
Ramallah |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Osama Saleh |
Salfit |
3 months (renewed order) |
|
Rami Birawi |
Hebron |
3 months (renewed order) |
|
Ihab Nasser |
Ramallah |
2 months (renewed order) |
|
Sa‘id Dar-Dawood |
Jerusalem |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
‘Ala’ al-Rajabi |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Awad |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Almuntaser-Billah Eid |
Nablus |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Rabi‘ Zeid |
Ramallah |
3 months (renewed order) |
|
Osama Abu-Arqub |
Hebron |
3 months (renewed order) |
|
Munadel Nefe‘at |
Jenin |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Zaid Jneidi |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Zahran |
Qalqilia |
6 months (renewed order) |
|
Mu‘taz Eweiwi |
Hebron |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Rabi‘ Jibril |
Bethlehem |
4 months (renewed order) |
|
Muhammad Hmeidat |
Hebron |
6 months (renewed order) |
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence for up to six month periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
The use of administrative detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (PPSN), dates from the “emergency laws” of the British colonial era in Palestine.
PPSN states: “Israel’s use of administrative detention violates international law; such detention is allowed only in individual circumstances that are exceptionally compelling for imperative reasons of security.”
Israel routinely uses administrative detention as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians when it fails to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a means to protest their illegal detention and demand an end to this policy which violates international law.
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