RAMALLAH, November 24, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities issued 25 administrative detention orders against Palestinian detainees between the 10th and 23rd of this month, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Thursday.
PPS lawyer, Mahmoud Halabi, noted that the detention orders, without charge or trial, included three new orders.
The term of the administrative orders ranged between two to six months.
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.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy, which violates international law.
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