RAMALLAH, September 29, 2015 (WAFA) – Israeli military issued
administrative detention orders against 28 Palestinians, according to the
Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC).
PPC stated that administrative detention – without charge or trial
- was issued for the first time against
six Palestinians, while it was renewed for the other 22 Palestinians.
PPC explained that Israeli military issued administrative detention
orders for a period of six months against eleven Palestinians identified as
Mousa Nasrallah, Loai Masalma, Yousef Laham, Hasan Shouka, Hazem al-Haymoni, ‘Ala’
Za‘aqiq, Nedal Labom, Rashad Karaja, ‘Abdul-Rahman Hammad, Osama ‘Atwa and
Yousef Hosha.
Meanwhile, I‘traf Hajjaj, Mahmoud Shabbana, Hani Shalash, Mohammad
Abu Hammad, Qidar Jit, Khalil and Tareq Dawas, Ibrahim Suleiman, Ramzi Mousa,
and Mahmoud ‘Atwan, received a four-month imprisonment sentence without charge
or trial.
Administrative detention orders for a period of three months were
issued against Walid Mizyin, Ghassan Thuqan, Ghassan Jaber, Sa‘id Hermas,
Mohammad al-Natsha, Lo’ai Hamdan and Rami al-Salamin.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians
without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six month
periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
The use of administrative detention dates from the “emergency laws”
of the British colonial era in Palestine, said the Palestinian Prisoner
Solidarity Network.
It stated, “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 uses administrative detention routinely as a form of
collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians, and frequently uses
administrative detention when it fails to obtain confessions in interrogations
of Palestinian detainees.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended
hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and
to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.
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