بيان صادر عن مؤسسات حقوق الانسان الفلسطينية بمناسبة الاعلان العالمي لحقوق الانسان
9/12/2009

مؤسسة الحق  *الضمير لرعاية الأسير وحقوق الإنسان * مؤسسة الضمير لحقوق الإنسان * المؤسسة العربية لحقوق الإنسان
المركز الفلسطيني لمصادر حقوق المواطنة واللاجئين (بديل) * الحركة العالمية للدفاع عن الأطفال – فرع فلسطي
مركز إنسان للديمقراطية وحقوق الإنسان * مركز القدس للمساعدة القانونية وحقوق الإنسان * لجنة مناصرة فلسطين – جنوب أفريقيا
المركز الفلسطيني لحقوق الإنسان  *مركز رام الله لدراسات حقوق الإنسان * مركز المرأة للإرشاد القانوني والاجتماعي

يحتفل العالم في يوم 10 كانون الأول/ديسمبر من هذا العام بالذكرى الواحدة والستين لليوم العالمي لحقوق الإنسان في إطار الاحتفالات بتبنّي الإعلان العالمي من قبل الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة. ويركّز الاحتفال باليوم العالمي لحقوق الإنسان في هذه السنة على منع التمييز وتحريمه، وهو أحد الحقوق التي تكفلها المادة (1) من الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان، بالإضافة إلى جملة من مواده الأخرى:

يولد جميع الناس أحراراً ومتساوين في الكرامة والحقوق. وهم قد وُهِبوا العقل والوجدان، وعليهم أن يعاملوا بعضهم بعضاً بروح الإخاء.

ولكن بعد مرور 61 عاماً على تبنّي الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان، لا تزال إسرائيل تنفذ سياسات وممارسات لا يخفى توجّهها التمييزي ضد المواطنين الفلسطينيين، كما تواصل انتهاك حقوق الإنسان الأساسية وتزيد من وتيرتها. Read the rest of this entry »

Press Briefing - March 31, 2002
Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
Defence for Children International / Palestine Section

The last 19 months has seen an unprecedented closure on the Palestinian Occupied Territories making family visits to Palestinian detainees almost impossible. Families are forced to obtain a special permit in order to visit their relatives in prison. These permits are extremely restrictive and visits are often cancelled because of the closure. Families are forced to wait long periods of time for special Red Cross buses to take them to the prisons. These buses are frequently stopped and searched by the Israeli authorities on the way to the prison.

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Joint Press Release - April 17, 2002
Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
Defence for Children International / Palestine Section

On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Addameer and DCI/PS call for the immediate release of Palestinian political prisoners, including children. As of today, 17 April 2002, thousands of Palestinians remain detained in Israeli detention centers throughout the West Bank and inside Israel. In a wave of arbitrary mass detentions, thousands of Palestinian prisoners have been rounded up by the Israeli military, handcuffed, blindfolded and transported to detention facilities where they are exposed to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Over 10% of these newly arrested are children. The detainees are denied access to attorneys and information regarding their whereabouts is often unknown by their families and human rights organizations.

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Press Release - April 27, 2002
Addameer Association condemns the recent trial of Palestinian political prisoners, Hamdi Quran, Basel Al-Asmar, Majdi Rimawi and Ahed Gholmi, by State Security Court in Yasser Arafat?s compound in Ramallah on Thursday 25 April, 2002.

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Special Report - May 19, 2002
Following the most recent Israeli invasion of Palestinian cities that began on March 29, 2002, the Israeli military has undertaken a widespread campaign of arbitrary, mass arrest of Palestinian civilians. Addameer has been following cases of those arrested and detained through visits to detention camps and prisons, as well as collecting statements from those who have been released. The conditions that detainees face violate every principle of international law and present a real threat to the lives of detainees. Addameer has collected many affidavits that reveal a conscious process of torture and maltreatment to which thousands of detainees have been exposed. The information in this report is based upon affidavits from detainees and lawyers who have visited these detention camps and prisons (see selected case studies below).

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Press Release - June 02, 2002
Addameer has received a case of a 20-year old Palestinian man from Jenin, Zeidan Mohammed Said Zeidan, who was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli soldiers on 8 May. This case is significant not for the fact that Zeidan was shot, but rather because the Israeli military is attempting to cover up the fact of his deliberate wounding with the claim that Zeidan was injured while attempting to carry out a suicide bombing. The facts indicate clearly that this claim is a complete falsification - Zeidan was shot and seriously injured while going about his daily life and was then placed under arrest. He had no explosives with him, and there is no evidence that he was injured by an explosion.

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Press Release - June 03, 2002
On Monday 3 June 2002, the Palestinian High Court of Justice issued a decision demanding the release of the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa’adat. This session of the Court Council was convened this morning, headed by Hamdan Abadaleh with the following members, Khalil Ashiyah, Sa’ada Adijani. The defence was represented by the attorneys Raji Sourani, Younis Al Jarou, Abdul Rahman Abu Nasser, Iyad Al Alami and Ribhe Qatamesh.

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Press Release - September 01, 2002
On 29 August 2002, two Palestinian detainees were severely beaten by 5 Israeli soldiers at the military occupation court of Beit El, located in Beit El settlement North of Ramallah. The two detainees attacked were Omar Abu Sneineh (21), arrested on June 26 during the last military invasion of Hebron, and Ussama Salahat, from the Bethlehem area.

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Press Release - October 03, 2002
The Imprisoned Palestinian National Movement in the Israeli Occupation Prisons calls upon all Arab and Palestinian prisoners to boycott Israeli courts refusing to recognize their legitimacy.

They also call upon all concerned organizations and citizens to implement actions to support them.

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Press Briefing - October 05, 2002
The Israeli occupation forces continuously violate international human rights standards through their practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which stipulates the treatment of civilians in times of war. In the case of arrest and detention, Israel has violated numerous protocols, in particular the transfer of prisoners from the occupied land to prisons of the occupying army, the use of torture, arbitrary detention, and the constant humiliation of detainees.

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