Hunger strikes

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Israeli Supreme Court suspends administrative detention order against Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed Allan

2015-08-19

Adalah: "The Court should have accepted the petition from the first moment it was submitted, when it was already clear that there was no justification for the continuation of Allan's detention."

Supreme Court hears petition demanding release of hunger striking Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan; next hearing set for Wednesday 19 August 2015

2015-08-18

Adalah: The court's request to the state indicates that it believes the petitioners' arguments are correct; the continuation of the detention is therefore very problematic from a legal point of view.

Adalah demands that Barzilai Hospital refrain from force-feeding Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan

2015-08-16

On 11 August 2015, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Dr. Hazi Levi, the director of Barzilai Hospital located in Ashkelon, and the Attorney General demanding that the hospital refrain from...

Israel enacted "Force-Feeding Law" to break the will of Palestinian detainees on hunger strike against inhumane conditions

2015-07-31

Adalah and Al Mezan: "With this new law, Israel sanctions torture and ill-treatment." Force-feeding resulted in the death of 3 prisoners on hunger strike in past decades.

Ministry of Health dismisses responsibility for hunger-striking prisoners shackled to their hospital beds day and night

2014-06-17

On 16 June 2014, the Ministry of Health responded to Adalah’s urgent letter sent on 12 June which called for an immediate end to Israeli hospitals’ shackling of Palestinian hunger-striking...

Adalah to Israel Prison Service: Withdraw decisions banning hunger-strikers from family visits and going out to the prison yard

2014-06-16

On 11 June 2014, Adalah sent two urgent letters to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Attorney General demanding that the IPS withdraw its recent decisions preventing Palestinian...

Adalah: Forced-feeding bill is an extreme violation of Palestinian prisoners’ right to protest; prohibition on lawyers’ visits must end

2014-06-04

The acceleration of the law’s discussion is part of an attempt by Israel to break the 43-day hunger strike of 170 Palestinian administrative detainees being held in Israeli prisons.

Adalah to IPS: Illegal to prevent attorneys from visiting Palestinian detainees on hunger strike

2014-05-20

Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Attorney General demanding an end to the IPS’s obstacles and restrictions on lawyers’ visits to Palestinian...

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Adalah Urge Israeli AG and Health Ministry to Withdraw Support for “Force Feeding Bill” Targeting Hunger-Striking Prisoners

2014-02-24

PHR-I and Adalah sent a letter to the Israeli Attorney General urging him to withdraw his support for a controversial bill permitting the “force-feeding” of prisoners.

UN Human Rights Committee Questions Israel on Torture

2012-09-19

On 31 August 2012, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) posed a list of 26 questions (“the List of Issues Prior to Reporting,” LOIPR) regarding Israel’s compliance with the International...

Dilemmas of Representation in Defending the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners

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...