Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs Commission
Palestinian prisoner recaptured by Israel after Gilboa prison break goes on hunger strike
Israeli prison authorities have conducted an internal hearing and sentenced Mohammed Ardah to two weeks in solitary confinement and imposed various kinds of restrictions and punitive limits on him
Over 1,300 Palestinian prisoners to go on hunger strike against Israeli repression
Prisoners across Israeli prisons and detention centers have been subjected to harsher treatment by the authorities as a form of collective punishment for the Gilboa prison break in the beginning of this month
Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah ‘at risk of suicide’ and other stories
Today we look at the continued persecution of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a hunger strike announced by Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, and more
17 Palestinians on hunger strike against administrative detention
According to statistics by Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups, 540 Palestinians are currently being held under Israel’s illegal administrative detention policy without charge or trial
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- Cuba describes easing of US sanctions as “a limited step in the right direction”
- Communists demand ouster of US military and NATO from Turkey
- Women in Croatia say enough to conservative obstruction of right to abortion
- Belgian workers demand scrapping of Wage Margin Act of 1996
