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In a PNN report today, the Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights stated that on Wednesday, May 23rd, prisoner Sameh Elaiwe, 50, was transferred from Nablus city to…
The PNN reported that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the release of Bahaa Khairi Moussa, Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Channel . Moussa was arrested on…
Reports from PNN have stated that the 18 year old Palestinian, Salah Zghair, is not dead.The Palestinian Prisoners Society has announced that Salah Zghair is in fact not dead, but…
Ma’an News Agency reported today on a Christian family whose four sons have all been imprisoned by the Israeli Military. ‘Since 2004, the whole family did not gather, not even…
The Maan News Agency reported that on Sunday the Israeli Ofer Israeli Military Court postponed its verdict announcement in the case against the Coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committee, Naji…
Palestinian sources reported that detainee Mahmoud Kamel As-Sarsak, currently held at the Ramla Prison Hospital is determined to continue his hunger strike until his release or death.Sarsak was kidnapped by…
Marking the annual Palestinian Prisoners Day of 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights releases the film This short documentary addresses the issues of solitary confinement and other measures of…
After an ongoing 79 days of hunger-strike, Palestinian detainees Tha’er Halahla and Bilal Thiab signed an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authorities to end their hunger-strike in exchange for their…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Israel has agreed to a large number of the legitimate demands of the hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners, including ending its illegal solitary…
According to Wafa’ Abu Ghalma, the wife of detainee Ahed Abu Ghalma, her husband has been denied medical treatment or hospitalization by the Israeli prison authorities despite a serious deterioration…
With some prisoners in serious failing health, the Palestinian Prisoner Association says Israel will present a deal that will include references to administrative detention, solitary confinement, and visitation permits for…
It is a departure for both of us to reach out to you in this way, but we are feeling as if we must. The world offers us many opportunities…
The Palestinian Center for Defending the Detainees (PCDD) issued a press release stating that, contrary to certain media reports, no agreement has been reached between the hunger-striking Palestinian detainees and…
The Palestinian News Network PNN reported that Israeli soldiers abducted 17 Palestinians from various locations across the West Bank on Thursday morning.Israeli Newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported on its website that…
Dozens of residents held, on Thursday, a protest in front of the United Nations – Red Cross headquarters in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the UN to…
Detained elected Palestinian Legislator, Mohammad Abu Jheisha, was moved from the Ofer Israeli prison to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert, but the administration there refused to admit…
Palestinian nonviolent activist, Bassem Tamimi, 45, from Nabi Saleh village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, spent more than 13 months in Israeli prisons. Earlier on Friday,…
Late one night in March, Rami Halabi was working on a laptop at his family’s apartment home in Kufr Aqab, on the road between Ramallah and Jerusalem in the occupied…
Hundreds of Palestinian residents, mainly youths and families of political prisoners, held a massive protest in front of the United Nations office in the central West Bank city of Ramallah,…
Fuad Al Khoffash, Head of the Ahrar Center for Detainee Studies, stated that the Israeli Prison Administration started a new method of what he called “cheap bargaining” this week by…
On Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court turned down an appeal to free two Palestinians from administrative detention who have been on hunger strike for nearly 70 days. But in its decision,…
This is a joint press release issued on May 6, 2012, by the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel).Ramallah-Jaffa, Bilal Diab and Thaer…
The Israeli Prison Service has confirmed that it is withholding interviews between hunger striking prisoners and their legal representatives as this privilege is conditional on prisoners physically getting up from…
Mahmoud Issa is a Palestinian political prisoner who has been in prison since 1993 and in solitary confinement for the last 10 years. He is allowed only half-hour visits from…
Israeli policemen arrested, on Thursday evening, more than 20 protesters during a massive protest held in front of the al-Ramla prison in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian detainees. The protesters also…
Over two thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centers began their third week of hunger strike on Tuesday, along with seven men and one woman who have been on hunger…
The Islamic Jihad movement warned that the Egyptian-mediated truce with Israel will be abandoned if any hunger-striking detainee dies in an Israeli prison or detention camp.Khader Habeeb, a political leader…
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) – Israel Branch, warned that the health condition of Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab, who entered their 63rd day of hunger strike is causing grave…
The demands of hunger-striking Palestinians in Israeli detention were discussed at a meeting in the Hadarim Prison between senior detained political leaders and the Head of the Israeli Administration, Aharon…
Palestinian sources reported, Sunday, that detained secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa’adat, was moved to the Ramla prison hospital after a sharp deterioration…
On Saturday, Palestinian prisoner Muhammed Halas was transferred to Ramleh prison medical center after twelve days on hunger strike, joining seven other long-term hunger strikers, including two that have had…
Palestinian political detainee, Bilal Thiab, sent a letter from his hospital bed at the Ramla Israeli Prison hospital that lacks adequate supplies and equipment, stating that he is persistent and…
Palestinian political prisoner, Tha’er Halahla, entered his 58th day of hunger-strike at the Ramla Prison Hospital, and is still determined to continue his strike while prison doctors warned that his…
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned over the restrictions imposed by the Internal Security Service (ISS) against lawyers’ visits to their clients, who are detained at detention…
In an illegal attempt to force an end to her hunger-strike, the Israeli Prison Administration has placed detainee Lina al-Jarbouni, 37 years old, into solitary confinement at the Ramla Israeli…
The International Tadamun (Solidarity) Foundation for Human Rights reported that the Israeli Prison Administration moved approximately 140 Palestinian hunger-striking detainees from the Majeddo prison to an undisclosed location. Most of…
The number of hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel in various prisons, detention camps and interrogation facilities around the country, will likely reach 3,000 persons as waves of detainees…
An Israeli military courted rejected, Monday, an appeal filed by lawyer Jamil al-Khateeb, on behalf of Bilal Thiab and Thaer Halahla, who are holding an open-ended hunger strike demanding to…
Nisreen Murtaja, 35, lives in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza city in the house of her husband’s family. In 1993, Nisreen’s husband, Samir, 41, was arrested from his home in…
Today, 17 April 2012, marks the Palestinian Prisoners Day, which has been devoted by the Palestinian people to support the cause of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails. Since 1979,…
Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, the Palestinian Central Census Bureau and the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees issued a joint release revealing that 201 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since 1967…
An International campaign, supported by 320 local and international human rights groups, was launched on Tuesday morning in Gaza city declaring support to the struggle of Palestinian political prisoners held…
Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel started an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday, campaigning for an end to all violations carried out against them by the Israeli Prison Administration, and demanding…
Sheikh Adnan Khader, a leader of the Islamic Jihad who went on hunger-strike for 66 consecutive days demanding an end to his illegal detention without charges or trial, was released…
The Palestinian prisoner support group Addameer announced Saturday that it knows of eight Palestinian detainees currently on open-ended hunger strikes, four of whom have been hospitalized and are being force-fed…
1600 Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, declared they will be starting an open-ended hunger strike on April 17th in protest to their illegal detention, and demanding basic rights. Palestinian…
Eleven Palestinian political prisoners continued on Thursday their hunger strike, Palestinian human rights groups reported. According to the report two of the prisoners, Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiyab, have entered…
Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Saturday that three Egyptian political prisoners, held by Israel at the Nafha prison, declared an open-ended hunger-strike demanding their release.The PPS identified the three as…
Head of the Legal Unit at the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Jawad Boulos, stated that detainee Omar Abu Shallal, 55, was moved to Ar-Ramla Prison Hospital, after being on hunger-strike…
The Israeli military detained, on Tuesday, three young men including the son of MP Hamed al-Betawi and a reporter from their homes in south Nablus.Local Palestinian sources stated that the…
Prisoners have begun a hunger strike, on Tuesday, in the “South Jails” for one day, and continue to protest against the conditions imposed on political prisoners in Israeli jails.The prisoners…
Elected Palestinian Legislator and senior Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, was forced back into solitary confinement, and his lawyer, Elias Sabbagh, has been prevented from seeing him for more than one…
The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported that female detainee, Hana’ Ash-Shalabi, is being exiled to the Gaza Strip, and that the Red Cross is bringing her family…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Sunday that 61 Palestinian political prisoners, held at the Nafha Israeli detention camp in the Negev Desert, were injured after the army attacked them…
After 43 days on hunger strike, Palestinian political prisoner Hana Shalabi has agreed to end her hunger strike after Israeli officials agreed to release her from prison. But her release…
Palestinian political prisoner, Abbas as-Sayyid, was injured after Israeli soldiers of the Nachshon Brigade attacked him in front of his prison cell at the Gilboa’ Israeli prison.As-Sayyid was beaten to…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding the release of female detainee Hana’ ash-Shalabi who has been on hunger strike for 40 days.Ash-Shalabi…
Lawyer of the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Firas Sabbah, stated that he managed, last Thursday, to visit detainee Amani al-Khandaqji, at the Israeli Asqalan prison, and that…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Saturday that Palestinian political prisoners in Nafha, Megiddo , Gilboa’, and Ramon Israeli prisons, returned their meals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning, in…
Israeli soldiers detained, on Thursday evening, a 12-year-old Palestinian child at a roadblock close to an illegal Israeli settlement, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.The Palestinian News…
Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi is in a serious health condition, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society told media Thursday morning.Advocate Jawad Pauls, director of the legal department of the society said, after…
For the first time in Israel’s history, the Israeli District Court upheld an appeal filed on behalf a Palestinian political prisoner from the northern West Bank city of Jenin demanding…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated on Monday evening that hunger-striking detainee Hana’ Ash-Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike since 34 days, was moved to Meir Israeli Hospital,…
The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported, Monday, that there are 23 detainees who are currently on hunger-strike protesting the illegal policies of Administrative Detention used by Israel…
Palestinian Researcher specialized in detainees’ affair, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that Israeli soldiers broke into prisons and detention centers six times last week, attacked and violated the rights of the Palestinian…
The Media Office of the Waed Society for Detainees and Ex-Detainees reported that Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention camps intend to declare, in April, one of the largest…
Israeli soldiers broke, on Monday at dawn, into Asqalan prison, and attacked dozens of Palestinian political prisoners, wounding eleven, one seriously. The soldiers tried to force several detainees to submit…
The Ofer Israeli Military Court sentenced on Thursday Palestinian cameraman, from Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, to eighteen months imprisonment and 1300 USD fine.The Friends…
Palestinian political detainee, Hana’ Ash-Shalabi, 30, is ongoing with her hunger-strike for the 22nd day in a row, rejecting her illegal administrative detention, and demanding her immediate and unconditional release.…
Amjad An-Najjar, head of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped more than 200 residents in the Hebron district, in the southern part…
A day after reducing the sentence of Palestinian political prisoner Hana Shalabi from six months to four months, Israeli authorities denied a request by the Palestinian Prisoner support group Addameer…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Sunday that Israeli soldiers kidnapped two women and one child while visiting family members held at the Ramon Israeli Prison.The PPS said that Dayala…
The Israeli Prison Administration prevented, Saturday, a medical committee from visiting hunger-striking detainee, Hana’ Yahia Ash-Shalabi, 30, who has been on hunger-strike for the eighteenth consecutive day protesting humiliation and…
Dozens of Palestinian marched on Friday at Borqeen village, to express solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, Hana Ash-Shalabi who has been on hunger strike for 16 days.The procession began after…
Detainee Hana’ Ash-Shalabi, who has been hunger-striking since more than two weeks now, stated that she is determined to continue her strike in order to highlight the plight of all…
Palestinian researcher, specialized in Detainees’ Affairs, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that Israel heightened the rate of its illegal arrests of the Palestinians in the occupied territories in February, and kidnapped more…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, announced today that his ministry is organizing an international campaign against Israeli administrative detention orders, and the ill-treatment of Palestinian political prisoners held in…
The International Solidarity for Human Rights reported that the Israeli Prison Administration decided to release dozens of Palestinian political prisoners under certain set conditions; detainees sentenced to more than four…
An Israeli court sentenced, on Wednesday, a Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem to five years imprisoned for what the prosecution called “affiliation with the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas”.The Israeli Radio…
The Israeli Prison Administration moved, on Tuesday, hunger-striking female detainee, Hana’ Ash-Shalabi, to the security prisoners branch of the Ha-Sharon Israeli prison, after she was previously moved to the section…
As Palestinian Political Detainee Hana Ash-Shalabi entered her twelfth day of open-ended hunger strike on Monday, school children and teachers organized a solidarity protest. Israeli authorities moved Ash-Shalabi on Sunday…
The Israeli Ofer Military Court sentenced on Sunday resident Waseem Maswada, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, to twelve and a half years as he faced “attempted murder”…
Female detainee, Hana Ash-Shalabi, entered her eleventh day of open-ended hunger strike at her cell at the Ha-Sharon Israeli prison, protesting her illegal detention and the administrative detention order served…
Palestinian Researcher, specialized in Detainees Affairs, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that female detainee Hana’ Yahia Ash-Shalaby, 28, declared hunger strike after Israel transferred her into Administrative Detention without charges for six…
Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, former political prisoner, Majdi Al-Ajouly, in addition to his wife and underage daughter, in Foqeen village, near the…
The situation of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails gets very little coverage in the mainstream media, in contrast to political prisoners in other parts of the Middle East…
One day after the deal between the Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan who ended his hunger-strike after 66 days, the Israeli prisons’ administration transferred approximately 120 prisoners from Negev Desert Prison…
Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after meeting with Israeli officials who pledged to release him in April. Khader had been near death,…
On Monday evening, in the field of Martyr Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, a number of Palestinian journalists lit 66 candles to represent the number of days spent by the prisoner…
Lawyer of detainee, Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike since 65 days, stated that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to hold a session to look into Adnan’s case…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Friday that Palestinian political detainees held at the Ramon Israeli prison, are being punished for protesting abuse against their families, who are being ordered…
Sahar Francis Lawyer of the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Ad-Dameer, visited on Friday, detainee Khader Adnan who has been on hunger strike since more than 62 days and…
Thousands of protestors rallied in the Gaza strip and the West Bank on Friday in support of Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan who was jailed by Israel, and is ongoing…
Journalist Ya’qoub al-Hotary was released, on Friday, from an Israeli detention facility after spending eight years in different Israeli detention centers for his journalistic and political activities.The Ma’an News Agency…
Dozens of Palestinians declared hunger strike in support of the Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan who has been on hunger strike for 60 days, and has vowed to continue as long…
The Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 59 days demanding his immediate release. Khader Adnan refused food one day after being kidnapped by the Israeli military…
An Israeli Military Court rejected on Monday evening the appeal that was filed by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) against a military order confining ailing detainee, Adnan Khader, who has…
As 33-year old Khader Adnan continues his 56-day hunger strike in an Israeli prison, a group of supporters held a rally on Saturday afternoon outside the prison, but were attacked…
The Israel military court has extended administrative detention for two months in addition to three months already detained for civil rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a lecturer at An-Najah…