By Amira Hass
11 August 2010
Haaretz

Nighttime raids, pointed guns, arrests often accompanied by beatings, kicks, curses and painful and extended handcuffing. The ordinary behavior of Israeli children in uniform.
Children in the West Bank throw stones at army vehicles and Israeli cars, mainly those belonging to settlers. That is the undeniable truth. Throwing stones is the classic way of telling the occupier, who is armed from head to toe, that he has forced himself on the occupied. Sometimes it’s part of a sweeping resistance movement, sometimes it’s a ceremonial remnant of such a movement, not devoid of braggadocio and adolescent boredom, while also a reminder to adults not to adapt. Read the rest of this entry »

On the way [to the detention center] the soldiers started beating me with a stick. They tightened the iron cuffs around my hands which caused me great pain. They also burnt my hands with cigarettes

Emad Shab

Date of birth: 2 January 1993
Age at arrest: 17
Date of arrest: 21 February 2010
Place of residency: Hebron
Place of detention: Ofer Prison, section 13
Postal address: Ofer Prison, Givat Zeev, P.O. Box 3007, via Israel
Number of administrative detention orders: Three
Charges: None

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After two years, a case against Palestinian teenagers accused of throwing stones was overturned when the military prosecution backed out. The suspects pleaded innocent all along, saying they’d been in school

By Amira Hass
8 August 2010
Haaretz

Eight Palestinian teenagers were tried in the court of military judge Lt. Col. Menashe Vahnish on November 11, 2008. Referring to a soldier from the Kfir Brigade, Vahnish said, “at this stage, there is no reason to cast any doubt on the witness.” According to his police testimony, on October 30, 2008 the soldier, T.M., and some of his comrades apprehended stone-throwing Palestinian 16-year-olds on a road that runs between the al-Aroub refugee camp south of Bethlehem and an agricultural school across the way. Read the rest of this entry »

Addameer’s periodic report on violations against Palestinian political prisoners, containing up-to-date news and statistics.
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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.

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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 »