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 Palestinian women [...]
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 judges [...]
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 The [...]
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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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 of the [...]
Also tagged Administrative Detention, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, palestinian, Prisoners, ZionismHere 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 husband were on [...]
[Image by Carlos Latuff]
By Uri Avnery's – Gush Shalom
14/04/07
AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing.
The term "negotiations" is really inappropriate. "Haggling" seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: "trafficking in human beings".
The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like goods, for which the officials [...]
By: Philippe Khan
Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians' suffering at the hands of [...]
Tunisian Treasure Prison Map
The first project is the brave, superb Tunisian Prison Map by Sami Ben Gharbia.
Sami made a Tunisian Prison Map, which is madeup using a Google Maps API + GMapEZ + video YouTube + flash animations + the Yahoo Y !Q Beta. [Hat tip: Rachel]
Link to the map: http://www.kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap
Link to the related article [...]
"It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world." – Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Transport Minister (1)
Might Israel release up to 600 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier captured near Gaza on June 25? Negotiations are underway.
As this story develops, the [...]
