On 23 May 2010, Addameer Attorney Anas Al Barghouti placed third out of nine finalists in the Second International Human Rights Competition for Lawyers held at Al Quds University in Abu Dis. Advocate Barghouti’s speech, entitled “Political Arrests and Unlawful Detention: Misery of the Act and the Actors”, discussed international law and arbitrary, politically-motivated arrests in the West Bank.

Read the full text of his speech (PDF): AR | FR

Ramallah, 22 June 2010

On Thursday 27 May, Israeli State Prosecutors submitted an indictment against Ameer Makhoul, the General Director of Arab NGO network Ittijah, before the Haifa District Court charging him with assistance to the enemy in a time of war, conspiracy to assist an enemy, aggravated espionage, and contact with a foreign agent. Read the rest of this entry »

United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2010

Ramallah, 24 June 2010

As the United Nations and the world commemorates the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June 2010, Addameer stands in solidarity with Palestinians prisoners who have suffered the devastating effects of torture and ill treatment, and unequivocally condemns all forms of such treatment in Israeli and Palestinian prisons, interrogation facilities and detention centers.
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“Although he was standing several meters away, I was sure that it was his goal to see that I was kicked and pushed down the stairs. He wanted to see me fall.”

Date of birth: 15 April 1981
Place of residence: Tiyasir Tubas, near Jenin
Date of arrest: 4 December 2007
Place of detention: Ofer Prison

Postal Address: Ofer Prison, Givat Zeev, P.O. Box 3007, via Israel

ARREST

On 14 December 2007, Hassan Yusef Hassan Dabak was accosted by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as he walked down a Jericho street. He found himself suddenly surrounded by military vehicles on either side and faced with a barrage of raised weapons. An Israeli military commander approached Hassan, asked him for his name and slapped him across the face. The soldiers then handcuffed him, placed a black bag over his head and transported him to the Israeli police station at the Jericho District Coordination Office (DCO). Read the rest of this entry »

Date of birth: 25 September 1982
Place of residence: Deir Ghassaneh Village, Ramallah district
Occupation: Third year university student at Birzeit University; Sociology Major
Date of arrest: 30 August 2009
Place of detention: Ofer Prison

Postal address:
Ofer Prison
Givat Zeev, P.O. Box 3007
via Israel

ARREST AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION

Number of order renewals: One
Expected end of current administrative detention order: 27 August 2010

Arafat Mudar Mohammad Daoud was arrested by Israeli soldiers from his family home in the early morning hours of 30 August 2009. This arrest occurred less than four months after his release from more than a year in Israeli detention, parts of which he spent as an administrative detainee. Read the rest of this entry »

Date of birth: 19 August 1966
Date of arrest: 22 June 2007
Date of release: 17 March 2010
Previous place of residence: ‘Aroura, West Bank
Place of exile: Damascus, Syria
Residency status: Refugee
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Since 1990, when he was just 24 years old, Saleh Mohammad Suleiman Al-‘Arouri has spent a total of almost eighteen years in Israeli detention. These  detention periods have been imposed through a combination of 20 administrative detention orders and two prison sentences, measures that each time were taken in relation to his alleged affiliation with Hamas, which along with all other Palestinian political parties including Fatah are illegal under Israeli law.(1)

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Sabti Khawaja (Left)
Date of birth: 10 September 1989
Place of residence: Ni’lin
Occupation: Student
Date of arrest: 2 February 2010
Detained at Ofer: 80 days
Released on bail: 8,500 NIS (USD $2,270)

Mahmoud Nafa’ (Right)
Date of birth: 20 May 1991
Place of residence: Ni’lin
Occupation: Student
Date of arrest: 2 February 2010
Detained at Ofer: 77 days
Released on bail: 5,000 NIS (USD $1,340)

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INTIMIDATION, ARREST AND DETENTION
Mahmoud Nafa’ and Sabti Khawaja were arrested by Israeli security authorities on 2 February 2010 at Ofer Military Base after appearing for interrogation as ordered in Israeli summonses delivered to both.
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Addameer Condemns Ongoing Political Persecution, Fears Ill-Treatment

Ramallah, 21 May 2010

In a hearing at Petah Tikva Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 20 May 2010, a judge extended Ameer Makhoul’s detention for a third time until Tuesday, 25 May 2010. Mr. Makhoul, a human rights defender and the director of Arab NGO network Ittijah, has been in Israeli detention since he was arrested from his family home in Haifa in the early morning hours of 6 May. Read the rest of this entry »

Israeli security authorities have arrested Palestinian human rights defender Ameer Makhoul and placed him in detention.

Ameer Makhoul was arrested on 6 May 2010 at 3:10 a.m. when Israeli Security Agency (ISA) agents accompanied by Israeli police raided his family home in Haifa. Mr. Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, serves as the General Director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations, a Palestinian human rights organization that holds special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Read the rest of this entry »