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Podcast: Israel wants to criminalize human rights defenders, says head of Palestinian group raided by army

Sahar Francis of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy organization, says that the Israeli army’s recent raids on human rights groups in the West Bank is because of Palestinian civil society advocacy for human rights and BDS.

Israeli prisons equipped by notorious security firm G4S hold Palestinian teens in solitary confinement

Since July 2012, Israel has held six Palestinian boys in solitary confinement in G4S equipped Al Jalame prison, reports Defence for Children-Palestine.

Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike "until freedom or death"

Nour Joudah
Ramallah
11 December 2012

Palestinian political prisoners were put back on the agenda in 2012.

Israel trying to "break" human rights defender arrested for expressing his opinions

Israel has subjected Addameer researcher Ayman Nasser to lengthy, brutal interrogation and solitary confinement.

Anger rises in West Bank as Israel kills protesters

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ramallah
21 November 2012

Many arrested as residents of the West Bank demonstrate their solidarity with people of Gaza.

Rights activist still held in Jerusalem jail equipped by G4S

Ayman Nasser denied vital medical treatment as he remains in detention without charge.

Podcast: deportation of Palestinian prisoners a war crime, says rights defender

Sahar Francis of Addameer warns current and former hunger strikers are not receiving urgently needed medical treatment in Israeli prison.

Israel denies hunger striker Ayman Sharawna medicine despite "serious deterioration" in health

The health of Palestinian prisoner Ayman Sharawna has seriously deteriorated after 88 days of hunger strike, according to rights groups.

Podcast: The “revolution inside Israeli prisons” continues, says hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak

Palestinian footballer and former hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak with Shahd Abusalama on the ongoing prisoner hunger strikes in Israeli jails; and an interview with Eric Romann of LA Dump Veolia.

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