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Six Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike against Administrative Detention

RAMALLAH, February 21, 2016 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees affairs’ Commission Sunday said six Palestinian detainees incarcerated in Israeli Naqab desert jail, inside Israel,  began an open-ended hunger strike in protest of their detention without charge or trial.

The commission identified the prisoners as Mahmoud al-Fasfous, Karam Amro, ‘Ala’a Rayyan, Sami Janazra, Nabil Khalil, and Yazan Hanani.

According to data issued by the commission on February 7th 2016, at least 700 Palestinians, including two women and nine minors, are currently held under administrative detention in Israeli jails.

It said some Palestinian detainees have spent up to 10 years in prison without charge or trial, slamming Israel’s use of administrative detention against Palestinians as ‘collective punishment’.

The commission noted that Israel has issued at least 25 thousand administrative detention orders against Palestinians since the year 2000.

According to Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Addameer, “Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.”

Regarding placing Palestinians in jails outside the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT), the Council of European Palestinian Relations (CEPR), said the fourth Geneva Convention forbids the transfer of detainees outside the oPT.

“Article 76 states that "all protected persons accused of an offense must be detained within the occupied country and if they are sentenced, they have to serve the sentence within it."

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