RAMALLAH, August 5, 2018 (WAFA) - The Israeli authorities recently issued administrative detention orders against 49 Palestinians, including a minor, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Sunday.
PPS attorney Mahmoud Halabi said 20 of the 49 detainees received renewed administrative detention orders, whereas the rest of them received an order for the first time.
The detention of a seventeen-year-old, who was detained on September 20th, 2017, was also renewed for another three months.
The sentences ranged in time between four to six renewable months.
Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
“Israel‘s use of administrative detention blatantly violates the restrictions of international law. Israel carries it out in a highly classified manner that denies detainees the possibility of mounting a proper defense,” says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
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