administrative detention

Knesset moves forward on bill granting Israel unchecked, draconian powers

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
22 September 2011
Israel’s use of administrative detention, expulsion and widespread closure of Palestinian cultural institutions will be fortified and backed by a bill that threatens to turn law-abiding citizens and organizations into “terrorists.”

"Prisoner of conscience" Ahmad Qatamesh to be detained another 6 months without charge

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 01:07
Amnesty International is calling for urgent action after an Israeli military commander renewed the administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh by another six months last week.

Developing campaigns in support of Palestinian political prisoners

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 08:31
The new book Threat, Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel is an excellent resource for activists who want to shed light on the situation of Palestinian political prisoners.

Protest Israel's detention of Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 00:11
The Palestinian human rights group Addameer issued an appeal today urging supporters to take action on the administrative detention of Palestinian political scientist and writer Ahmad Qatamesh.

Interview: Mazin Qumsiyeh on popular resistance and breaking the spell of fear

David Cronin
16 June 2011
David Cronin interviews Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of the new book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, on the popular struggle in the occupied West Bank and his experience being arrested and detained by Israeli forces.

US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to EI

Maureen Clare Murphy
14 June 2011
Lucas Koerner, the young American Jewish university student shown violently arrested in a Jerusalem Day video, speaks to The Electronic Intifada about his activism and what happened after his arrest.

Amnesty International: Ahmad Qatamesh a prisoner of conscience

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 19:03

Amnesty International released an urgent action alert on Friday following Israel’s imposition on an administrative detention order on Palestinian writer and activist Ahmad Qatamesh. Amnesty writes:

Palestinian academic and writer Ahmad Qatamesh is being held as an administrative detainee, which allows the Israeli authorities to detain him indefinitely without charge and denies him any real opportunity to challenge the detention order.

As feared, Israel issues administrative detention order against Qatamesh

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 16:42
The Palestinian human rights group Addameer issued an urgent appeal today (full text below), one day after Israeli military authorities issued an administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh, the Palestinian writer and political activist.

Will political arrest of Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh be protested?

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 23:40

The Alternative Information Center reports that writer Ahmad Qatamesh was arrested in his family’s Ramallah home by Israeli occupation forces and transferred to the Ofer detention center in Beitunia in the occupied West Bank:

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