Family visits to prisoners

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Adalah petition for family visits to Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners to be heard in November 2014

2014-08-27

Denial of family visits is example of punitive measure to suppress prisoners' protests against conditions of their detention; Adalah argued that these IPS instructions are illegal and must be revoked.

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...

Palestinian Political Prisoners: Unfair Game for Israel’s Persecution

On 9 December 2009, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected petitions by Gaza detainees and their relatives, together with Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations against Israel’s general...