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Ahmad Abu Haniya, the Youth Project Coordinator for the Alternative Information Center (AIC), was released from administrative detention on 14^th May 2007, after two years of imprisonment without any trial or formal charges being brought against him.

Ahmad was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint on his way to work on 18^th May 2005 and placed in administrative detention, which is imprisonment without charge or trial. Ahmad and his attorney were not even permitted to know the accusations against him.

The detention of Ahmad and so many other Palestinians, blatantly violates international humanitarian law and the fundamental right to liberty.

The administrative detention has been used by Israel as a tool to oppress political activists in Palestine who struggle non-violently against the Israeli occupation and for a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

This is an interview with Ahmad on the 21^st of May, one week after his release from prison, at the offices of the AIC in Beit Sahour. Listen to his experience of administrative detention in Israeli Prisons:

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