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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Ramallah, 25 April 2010

On 25 April 2010, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association submitted a complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Moatasem Muzher, 16, who is currently held under Israeli administrative detention at Ofer Prison. The complaint seeks intervention by the UN body in Moatasem’s case on the grounds that his administrative detention constitutes arbitrary detention in violation of international law. Read the rest of this entry »

Date of birth: 23 October 1993
Place of residence: Qalandiya Refugee Camp
Occupation: Student
Date of arrest: 20 March 2010
Place of detention: Ofer Prison

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

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ARREST AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION

Number of administrative detention orders: One
Expiration of current order: 26 June 2010
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As of August 2009, there were 387 Palestinian administrative detainees including one child, three women and eight Palestinian Legislative Council members.

•    On 14 August 2009, Hamdi Tamri, who turned 17 on the same day, received his third administrative detention. The order was confirmed for a four month period on 20 August 2009 at the Administrative Detainees Court in Ofer. Hamdi is currently the only Palestinian child in administrative detention in Israel. Click here to read his urgent appeal and find out how you can help.

•    Eteraf Rimawi’s fifth administrative detention order: On 15 June 2009, Addameer attorney Mahmoud Hassan filed a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice against Mr. Rimawi’s fourth administrative detention order. On 27 June, during the scheduled hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, Adv. Mahmoud Hassan withdrew the petition at the Court’s recommendation after its review of the ‘secret information’. According to the judges, the Israeli security services representative had already informed the court of his decision to renew Eteraf’s administrative detention order. Subsequently, a fifth administrative detention order valid for an additional three months, starting 8 July 2009, was issued against Eteraf. At the judicial review for the order, the military judge agreed with Eteraf’s lawyer, Adv. Mahmoud Hassan, that his administrative detention would not be renewed again provided that no “new material” is compiled. The order is now set to expire on 7 October 2009. However, from Addameer’s experience, such a decision does not necessarily mean the release of an administrative detainee, as he can be held further on the premise that new “material” has been brought to the attention of the judge. Click here to read his urgent appeal and find out how you can help.

•    On 29 June, Elected Member of Nablus municipality Council, Ms. Majeda Fidda was informed that her detention without charge or trial would be extended for an additional four months. The date of her potential release is now 30 October 2009. Click here to read her urgent appeal and see how you can help.

Activism – Organize an educational event!

Organize an event in solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainees. Addameer’s powerpoint presentation on administrative detention is now available here.

Military Orders

On 7 June 1967 the new Israeli occupying forces in the West Bank issued Military proclamation No. 1 which marked the start of a nearly 42 year old occupation of the Palestinian territory. The Military justified itself with the words ‘in the interests of security and public order’, a phrase which will become the basis of arrests of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians throughout the decades. Since then, the Israeli authorities have issued over 2,500 such military orders, with enormous impact on Palestinian life. Read the rest of this entry »

“The term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity”. Read the rest of this entry »