RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 03, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities recently issued administrative detention orders against 87 Palestinians for periods ranging between two and six renewable months, said Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) on Monday.
PPS attorney Mahmoud Halabi that among the 87 orders, 37 were issued against Palestinians detained for the first time, while the rest of the detainees received renewed administrative detention orders.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial at orders from a military commander and on the basis of secret evidence. The order normally goes for six-month periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military authorities.
“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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