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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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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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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Date of birth: 14 December 1976
Place of residence: Saida, Tulkarem
Occupation: Aluminum light-structures designer and maker
Date of arrest: 9 April 2008
Place of detention: Megiddo Prison

Postal address:

Megiddo Prison
Section 9, Cell # 12
P.O. Box 2424, Israel
Expected end of current administrative detention order: 14 April 2010
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Date of birth: 2 July 1982
Place of detention: Hasharon prison
Date of arrest: 14 September 2009
Place of residence: Burqin, Jenin

Postal address: Hasharon Prison, Even Yehuda, P.O. Box 7, 40330 Israel

Number of order renewals: One
Expected end of administrative detention order: 12 September 2010

On Tuesday, 16 March 2010, a military judge confirmed Hana Yahya Shalabi’s second administrative detention order for a period of six months, from 13 March 2010 to 12 September 2010.
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MEDIA RELEASE
Ramallah, 21 December 2009
Palestinian political prisoners must be released, categories of “security detainees” must be cancelled and political offenses must be defined if peace between Israel and the Palestinians is to be achieved.

Reaching the ‘No-Peace’ Agreement: The Role of Palestinian Prisoner Releases in Permanent Status Negotiations (Download PDF ~0.5 MB), a briefing paper from Addameer, examines Israel’s failure to comply with the bilateral agreements regarding the release of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli detention for their involvement in activities related to the ongoing belligerent Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. It concludes that prisoner releases can be instrumental in achieving a lasting peace, but only if prisoners themselves are recognized as political partners in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

[Ramallah, 24 November 2009] On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli Security Agency officers, human rights defender Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order. The administrative detention order is set for a three month period, during which time Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review of the order is scheduled to take place on 25 November at the Military Court of Administrative Detainees in Ofer Military Base, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

The administrative detention order against Mohammad comes just one day after a hearing on 22 November 2009 at the Military Court of Appeals ended Mohammad’s interrogation period. In the Appeals Court hearing, the judge decided to release Mohammad because no measurable progress had been made during the two months he had been held in interrogation, no external evidence had been brought to the attention of the court and the military prosecution had been unable to formulate substantiated allegations or charges against him. The Appeals Court judge thus accepted Addameer’s appeal against the seventh extension of Mohammad’s detention, which had taken place five days earlier. At the same time, the judge ordered Mohammad’s release on 10,000 NIS bail (about $2,500 USD) and with the conditions that he not travel outside the occupied Palestinian territory, and that he regularly reports to the Israeli police. However, the military judge also gave the military prosecutor 24 hours to issue an administrative detention order against Mohammad, and remanded Mohammad to detention during this period. At 6:30 p.m. on 23 November 2009, Addameer confirmed with the Israeli Security Agency that an administrative detention order had been issued against Mohammad, and that he would not be released. Read the rest of this entry »

Date of birth: 3 September 1980
Place of residence: Deir Sweidan, Ramallah
Occupation: Skilled tradesman
Date of arrest: 7 November 2007
Place of detention: Ofer prison
Postal address: Ofer Prison, Section 8, Givat Zeev , P.O. Box 3007, via Israel
File #: 3651/07

ARREST AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION
Number of order renewals: Six
Expected end of seventh administrative detention order:  31 October 2009
Date of release: 29 October 2009

Israeli soldiers arrested Ismat from his family home in the early hours of the morning on 7 November 2007. The soldiers ordered his family members to crowd into one room while they proceeded to conduct a search of the house. After an hour, they left the house, taking a blindfolded and shackled Ismat with them. A few days later, Ismat was informed that his detention would be one without charge or trial: a six-month administrative detention order had been issued against him after an Israeli military judge deemed Ismat “dangerous for the security of the region”. Addameer attorneys filed an appeal on 26 November 2007 in an attempt to challenge the military judge’s decision. The appeal was denied and Ismat was detained for the entirety of his original detention order, which ended 6 May 2008. However, instead of being released at that point, Ismat’s administrative detention order was renewed again and again, a total of six times. Although a military judge held on 4 May 2009 that Ismat should be released, this order was overruled following the prosecution’s successful appeal to the Military Court of Appeals. For nearly two years, the Military Court of Appeals has consistently rejected Addameer’s appeals against Ismat’s ongoing administrative detention. Read the rest of this entry »

Date of birth: 1 January 1970
Place of residence: Jenin refugee camp
Date of arrest: 31 March 2009
Place of detention: Hasharon prison
Postal address: Hasharon prison, Ben Yehuda, P.O. Box 7, 40 330 Israel

ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION

Number of order renewals: two
Expected end of administrative detention order: 30 July 2010

On 31 March 2010, Raja’ Nazmi Qasim Al-Ghoul’s administrative detention order was renewed for six months for a second time, set to expire on 30 September 2010. The order was reduced at the judicial review to five months, and again at the Administrative Detainees Appeals Court to four months. At present, Raja’s administrative detention is set to expire on 30 July 2010. Read the rest of this entry »