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Addameer Press Release: International Women’s Day 2010

by Haitham Sabbah March 10, 2010

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – 8 March 2010 Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women’s Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to self-determination. An estimated 10,000 [...]

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A Palestinian arrest so ridiculous even the Israeli judges smiled

by Amira Hass February 15, 2010

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Something about 12-year-old Bassam caused two Israelis to smile. Two Palestinians noticed, but did not remember their smiles as being disparaging or arrogant. On the contrary. The Palestinians regarded the smiles as a rare moment in which two Israelis – and not just any Israelis, but military [...]

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The Palestinian Prisoners’ Plight

by SR Editor November 29, 2009

By, Bianca Zammit* and Fadi Skaik** | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is of itself in direct contravention of international law, the whole arrest, judiciary and imprisonment process compromises their basic human rights. In Gaza, the families of [...]

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PA: UN wants Israel to admit secret prison

by Haitham Sabbah November 29, 2009

The UN has sent an official request to Israel to admit the existence of secret prison camp 1391, dubbed in the press “Israel’s Guantanamo Bay,” according to the Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs. Minister Issa Qaraqe told a news conference in Ramallah on Saturday that the UN had asked the Israeli government in a [...]

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Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children – a report

by Haitham Sabbah June 27, 2009

DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. The release of the report came just days after an article was published in [...]

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Military Justice in Israel

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2009

Adapted from the Amnesty International Report: http://bit.ly/13b6o4 Hundreds of Palestinians, including scores of children, were detained by Israeli forces in the OPT and many were held incommunicado for prolonged periods. Most were later released without charge, but hundreds were charged with security-related offences and tried before military courts, whose procedures often failed to meet international [...]

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Administrative Detention

by Haitham Sabbah May 27, 2009

Part 1: Part 2: The tyrannical nature of administrative detention and its complete violation of human rights are based on confidential materials kept from the detainee and the lawyer. The confidential materials determine the period of detention and its extension thereafter. The administrative detainee is allowed an appeal before a court martial but the confidentiality [...]

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Support Imprisoned Activist

by Haitham Sabbah June 18, 2008

On April 11 Mousa Abu Maria, a dedicated peace with justice activist and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project, an organization committed to challenging the Occupation using non-violent direct action and promoting Palestinian self-sufficiency, was arrested by Israeli forces. Like nearly 1000 other Palestinians in Administrative Detention, Mousa is being held without charge or trial [...]

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US operating floating prisons

by Haitham Sabbah June 16, 2008

US adds a new scandal to its endless record of human rights abuse: US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and [...]

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The Worlds Worst Prison State

by Haitham Sabbah June 13, 2008

Guess who? According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States of America is The Worlds Worst Prison State: “In 2004, nearly 7 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend 2004 — 3.2% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 31 adults.” – U.S. Department [...]

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Palestinian Child Prisoners

by Haitham Sabbah November 2, 2007

A feature story from British ITV news. It’s only a short news clip, but one that US media will never air.

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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2007

Film Summary: Through startling interviews with perpetrators, witnesses and victims, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB examines and contextualizes the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison abuses documented in photographs that are etched in our national consciousness. The film probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came [...]

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World Most Luxuries Prison

by Haitham Sabbah October 16, 2007

No, not in Arabian Land, not in America. Not Guantanamo and NOT Abu Gharib for sure! When you think of a prison, the first thing comes to your mind is stoned walls and a huge gate with armed watch towers. That’s not the case in Leoben Justice Centre, Steiermark, Austria. In fact here you can [...]

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700,000 Palestinians were kidnapped since 1967

by Haitham Sabbah October 9, 2007

Image by: Benjamin Heine Couple of months ago, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, an ex-detainee, a specialist in Palestinian Detainee’s Affairs and the head of the census department of the Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, prepared a comprehensive report on Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, which revealed that Israel kidnapped 700,000 Palestinians since it occupied the Palestinian [...]

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“Daddy will come at night, like a butterfly”

by Haitham Sabbah June 29, 2007

Here is a new sample of the “peace loving Israeli occupation”. The following video testimonies produced and published by B’tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) shows a sample of Palestinian daily misery life under the Israeli occupation: Video testimony – Maysun al-Hayek: In February 2002, Maysun al-Hayek and her [...]

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