12 May 2014
A rising proportion of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to solitary confinement, harsh interrogations and ill-treatment amounting to torture.
7 May 2014
Israel isolates hunger strikers, imposes solitary confinement and denies salts, putting lives of prisoners in jeopardy.
6 May 2014
Refugees forcibly returned to Syria at “grave risk,” Human Rights Watch warns.
5 May 2014
Israeli extremism on display in support of soldier who cocked his gun at unarmed Palestinian youths.
1 May 2014
Palestinians held in administrative detention on open-ended hunger strike in Israeli prisons.
24 April 2014
Syrian government “using starvation as a weapon of war,” says Amnesty International.
13 April 2014
The Electronic Intifada has obtained the closed court transcript and gag order extending the detention and interrogation of journalist Majd Kayyal, which Israeli media are not permitted to report.
11 April 2014
Arafat Jaradat, a 33-year-old father of two, died on 23 February 2013 in Israel’s Megiddo Prison.
10 April 2014
“I wish I could be as I was before, to walk on the street without fear,” says 28-year-old Osamah al-Shawamreh.
31 March 2014
“I will refuse to serve in the army even if I’m jailed sixty times,” says 18-year-old Omar Saad.