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Arrest & Detention
Activism and Advocacy
According to The Palestine Monitor, since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians -- or 20 percent of the population -- have been detained by Israel. Palestinians have protested the detention of their family members by staging peaceful demonstrations and prisoners have staged hunger strikes to raise awareness of their plight. Support and advocacy organizations and human rights groups have also launched campaigns around prisoners' rights as the number of Palestinians in Israeli detention grows with each passing day.
Activism and Advocacy
Prisoners' association shut down in Israel and West Bank, The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (10 October 2006)
Palestinian Child Demands Protection for the Palestinian People at the UN, Riham Barghouti (8 July 2006)
DCI/PS call to action on Palestinian Prisoners' Day, DCI/PS (19 April 2006)
Palestinian Prisoners' Hunger Strike (15-31 August 2004)
4,200 Palestinians on Hunger Strike, Kristen Ess and Nada Khair (1 August 2003)
ISM coordinator Huwaida Arraf arrested at Huwara checkpoint, ISM (18 June 2003)
Palestinian prisoners' day, PCHR (17 April 2003)
Human Rights Day: Addameer on Palestinian detainees, Addameer (10 December 2002)
Protest Arbitrary Imprisonment, Sam Bahour and Paul de Rooij (22 October 2002)
My friend is being tortured!, Sam Bahour writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine (12 October 2002)
Israel urged again to free Palestinian journalists, Reporters Without Borders (30 July 2002)
Israel: placing the Palestinian population outside the protection of the law, OMCT (25 July 2002)
Amnesty International calls for a commission of inquiry into mass arbitrary detention of Palestinians, Amnesty International (23 May 2002)
RSF calls for the release of three Palestinian journalists, RSF (12 April 2002)
Ten Palestinain journalists arrested in Bethlehem, IFJ (5 April 2002)
Letter to Colin Powell about the arrest of Mustafa Barghouthi, Ali Abunimah (2 January 2002)
Prisoner Release Deals
Information brief: History of Israeli-Arab prisoner exchanges, The Palestine Center (13 July 2006)
Israeli government leaves Palestinian child detainees out of prisoner release, DCI-PS (6 August 2003)
Addameer: Selection of Palestinian detainees to be released solely reflects Israeli criteria, Addameer (5 August 2003)
Websites
Addameer - Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association
Palestinian Political Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Association (Hussam)
The Mandela Institute for Human Rights - Palestine
Palestinian Prisoners' Society
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
Sumoud: A Political Prisoner Solidarity Group
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