Arrest & Detention
Palestinian Detainees at Risk
Palestinians in Israeli detention generally do not enjoy the minimal fulfillment of their rights. They are held in substandard conditions, like in open-air tents riddled with bug infestation in the Ansar III (Ketziot) detention center in the Negev desert. They are denied medical rights and Palestinian women detainees suffer particular violations of their rights. Palestinians in Israeli detention, often initially denied access to legal representation, remain vulnerable to ill-treatment and torture as Israeli authorities try to coerce them into providing information or confessions. (Added 22 December 2006)

Overview
  • Israel Continues to Deny Palestinian Prisoners their Basic Rights, Al-Haq (16 April 2005)
  • Conditions in Israeli prisons begin to normalize after strike, Mandela (7 September 2004)
  • Adalah: "Allow children of prisoners contact with their parents", Adalah (16 August 2004)
  • Palestinian prisoners' day, PCHR (17 April 2003)
  • Human Rights Day: Addameer on Palestinian detainees, Addameer (10 December 2002)
  • Conditions in Israeli prisons deteriorate, LAW (23 July 2002)


    Medical Rights
  • Palestinian Prisoners must pay for health, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (23 September 2005)
  • Medical Concern for Palestinian detainee held in Ashkelon prison, PCHR (15 October 2003)
  • Denial of access to medical care in Israeli prisons, OMCT 18 September 2003)
  • Israel denies Palestinian human rights lawyer access to medical treatment, OMCT/DCI-PS (13 May 2003)
  • Women prisoners, including cancer patient, denied medical treatment, LAW (12 March 2003)


    Lack of Due Process of Law
  • Amnesty: "Palestinian prisoners at risk of being killed by Israeli forces", Amnesty International (14 March 2006)
  • Israeli High Court denies Palestinian detainee access to lawyer, PCHR (25 July 2005)
  • Take No Prisoners: The Fatal Shooting of Palestinians by Israeli Forces During Arrest Operations, B'Tselem (26 May 2005)
  • The Israeli Supreme Court approves order denying Palestinian detainee access to legal representation, PCHR (18 August 2003)


    Palestinian Women in Israeli Detention
  • Harsh treatment of Palestinian women prisoners, WOFPP (23 August 2004)
  • Israeli prison guards use violence against Palestinian female prisoners, PCATI (13 July 2003)
  • Women prisoners, including cancer patient, denied medical treatment, LAW (12 March 2003)
  • International Women's Day: 65 Palestinian women remain in Israeli detention camps, Addameer (8 March 2003)
  • Addameer's WSF representative given four months of administrative detention, Addameer (26 January 2003)


    Ill-treatment and Torture
  • Adminstrative detention, risk of ill-treatment or torture, OMCT (31 July 2004)
  • Torture and ill-treatment of child detainees, OMCT (12 December 2003)
  • A story from the heart of Israel's secret prison, Mohammad Daraghmeh (9 July 2003)
  • Open letter concerning the use of ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian detainees, OMCT (25 June 2003)
  • My friend is being tortured!, Sam Bahour writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine (12 October 2002)


    Secret Prison Facility 1391
  • Facility 1391: a secret prison (PDF) ICJ report from a hearing in the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem (1 December 2003)
  • High Court of Justice Ruling on Petition to Close the Secret Detention Facility 1391 (PDF) Observation Mission Avocats San Fontieres (December 2003)
  • Facility 1391: Israel's secret prison, Chris McGreal, The Guardian (14 November 2003)
  • Facility 1391: Israel's Guantanamo, Jonathan Cook, Le Monde Diplomatique (November 2003)
  • PCATI to Israeli government: "Shut down secret detention facility 1391", PCATI (4 September 2003)
  • A story from the heart of Israel's secret prison, Mohammad Daraghmeh (9 July 2003)
  • High Court Petition on 1391



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