Palestinian prisoners

In the petition, filed on behalf of three Palestinian prisoners, the organizations argued that the law creates arbitrary, sweeping, and vengeful discrimination, contrary to constitutional and...

While Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli authorities have always experienced a wholesale violation of their human rights, Israel’s new extreme-right-wing government has taken numerous...

Today, 20 April 2022, the Haifa District Court heard a request by the Israeli State Attorney’s office for a three-month administrative detention order of Mr. Sadeen Jabareen, a 29 year-old...

The conduct of all the authorities in Israel, especially the executive and the judiciary, during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate fully the ease of violating the rights of prisoners and the lack of...

Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana issues directive preventing Palestinians detained by Israel from receiving vaccinations, in violation of mandatory Health Ministry guidelines.

Adalah demands Israeli prison service act immediately to halt continuing spread of virus and to provide sufficient treatment for infected prisoners.

Adalah, Addameer, PCATI, PHRI call on international community to urge Israel to allow al-Akhras to move to West Bank hospital or to release him immediately – before it is too late.

As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Organizations call for proactive and public involvement by Israeli health authorities in formulating and publishing a strategy to delay COVID-19 outbreak in prisons while protecting basic rights.

Adalah to Israel Prison Service: You must supply prisoners with blankets, winter clothing, and heaters to meet UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

Petition calls for improvement to degrading and inhumane conditions faced by 1,800 prisoners every day during transport in IPS ‘Posta’ vehicles.

MK Jabareen: We are receiving reports of serious Israel Prison Service violations of hunger-strikers' rights. It is my right and obligation as a Knesset member to examine these reports.

IPS illegally filmed, distributed video claimed to be of Palestinian prisoner & hunger strike leader Marwan Barghouti in his cell and bathroom; Adalah demands criminal probe of incident.

The undersigned human rights organizations hereby call on the international community to urge Israel to cease its ongoing, systematic human rights violations against the hunger-strikers.

IPS’s rejection of requests to visit Barghouti interferes with Knesset Member’s role as elected public official to examine and scrutinize IPS policies regarding hunger strikers.

Following Supreme Court petition filed by Adalah and Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, IPS compelled to end illegal punitive practice.

Israel Prison Service is in contempt of court for preventing meetings between lawyers and striking prisoners; Supreme Court ruled in 2004 this punitive practice is illegal.

Supreme Court, state have previously determined punitive tactic is illegal; Adalah demands Attorney General take immediate action.

Lack of heat negatively impacts upon the daily functioning of the prisoners, on their health and physical condition, and causes severe insomnia.

Adalah still demanding that IPS provide prisoners with full health basket, including preventative treatments, in accordance with rights to life, health and dignity.