Israel
Middle East
Justice
Material conditions
Israel
Salah Hamouri stages protest against being imprisoned without charge for the last six months
Source — The Guardian
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Middle East
Overcrowding
Israel
Prison overcrowding: the number of inmates has grown by 900 in the past three months. 40% of the prison population is now made of people in pre-trial detention.
Source — Pime asianews
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Israël : fin de cavale pour quatre des six Palestiniens évadés d'une prison israélienne
News
Middle East
Israel
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Israel: Middle East Monitor UN officials call on Israel to release Palestinian children from prison
News
Coronavirus
Minors
Middle East
Israel
In a joint press statement sent to MEMO on Sunday, senior UN officials have called on Israel to release Palestinian children from prison in the light of the spread of Covid-19.
“We are seriously concerned over the continued detention of Palestinian children by the Israeli authorities,” said Jamie M…
Source — Middle Esat Monitor
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Middle East
Israel
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Source — Times of Israel
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Middle East
Israel
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Source — Mundo Obrero
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Women
Middle East
Israel
In Israel, there are around 25,000 men in prison. Some 14,000 of these are convicted on criminal charges. The rest are incarcerated on security-related charges – and are mostly Palestinian. In comparison, there are just 200 women in prison in the Holy Land. And they’re all in one place – Neve Tirza…
Source — Refinery29
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Middle East
Social ties
Israel
Tarlan Hankishayev, jailed for falsely incriminating suspect in a 2009 gay youth club shooting, wins long fight for rights
Source — The Times of Israël
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Middle East
Protest
Israel
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Source — Huffington Post
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Middle East
Protest
Israel
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Source — L'Obs
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Middle East
Israel
Thousands of prisoners expected to join rights protest led by Marwan Barghouti that has significant political backing
Source — The Guardian
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Middle East
Israel
Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a…
Source — The NY Times
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Culture
Women
Middle East
Israel
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Source — Supermax.be
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Children, Palestinians, Prisoners
Investigations
Middle East
Israel
Broken childhoods. The title of the report, produced by a consortium of associations including Platform for Palestine and the League of Human Rights, is not simply a title. The reality for these minors who have been interrogated, charged and imprisoned under Israeli military law is beyond comprehen…
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Israël et territoires palestiniens occupés : Palestinian teenager sentenced to 13 years in prison
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Middle East
Israel
Palestinian teenager Nurhan Awad was sentenced on Wednesday to 13-and-a-half years in prison for allegedly stabbing an Israeli man in Jerusalem last year.
Source — The New Arab
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Different detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners
Investigations
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Justice
Torture
Violence
Israel
Nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, under the military regime.
The facilities are located outside of the occupied territories, in total violation of international law. Arrested for political reasons, the detainees are particularly prone to arbitrary detention, to…
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