Palestinian prisoners

On 9 September 2009, Adalah filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of Mr. Muayad Bushnak, a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel imprisoned in an Israeli prison, against a decision...

Despite the media deluge around a possible prisoner exchange, several elements were conspicuously missing and almost never mentioned or discussed. In general, the Palestinian prisoners continued to...

Four days after Adalah submitted the salt petition to support 2,000 hunger striking prisoners in 2004, the Supreme Court heard the case and dismissed it without explanation. Two days later, the...

Today, 24 March 2009, at a hearing held before an expanded panel of nine justices of the Israeli Supreme Court, three human rights organizations - The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel,...

Following the Israeli Supreme Court’s ruling in 1999 prohibiting torture, it seemed – or at least we hoped – that the era of torture in Israel was over, and with it the shameful complicity of...

The law allows for the arrest of suspects for long periods without any judicial oversight, for deliberations to take place in their absence, and for the decision to extend their detention to be...

Adalah: “Prisoners are transported by the Israel Prison Service in conditions that violate their constitutional rights to freedom, dignity, minimal living conditions in prison, medical...

On 16 August 2007, Adalah sent a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Security, the Head of the General Security Services (GSS) and the Attorney General, following an...

To mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, 17th April, Adalah’s Media Coordinator Amal Ziadah interviews former political prisoner Areej Shahbari, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth

Those who are called political prisoners are perceived as freedom fighters, those who resist foreign rule or a despotic regime. The opposition to classifying them as such reflects a deep-rooted,...

Arab prisoners – including Arab citizens of Israel such as myself – who have been convicted of offenses against the state's security and who are serving their sentences in prisons throughout...

On 17 January 2006, Adalah sent a letter to the head of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), Yaakov Ganot, demanding that he uphold and guarantee the rights of prisoners during their transportation in...

On 16 August 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the Court issue an order of injunction instructing the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to allow the children...

Keynote speech from 2005 study day on "The Experience of Legal Representation of Palestinian Prisoners."

On 31 January 2005, a United States District Court judge ruled that persons suspected of committing security offenses and imprisoned in the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to...

Every few months the entire country is scandalized by the discovery of another investigation in the course of which the persons being interrogated confessed to a crime they did not commit. While...

Yesterday, 12 May 2004, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding that he issue an order requiring the General Security Services (GSS) to record all interrogations of suspects,...

The Supreme Court dismissed a petition submitted by seven Palestinian detainees and ten Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations protesting the inhumane conditions faced by close to 1,000...

The evidence submitted by the petitioners shows that conditions in Ansar III do not meet minimum standards for a detention facility. Ansar III is situated in the Naqab desert, which is exceedingly...

Protesting the inhumane conditions faced by approximately 500 Palestinian detainees currently held in Ansar III Detention Center. Arguing that the detention conditions in Ansar III violate the...