On Saturday, 2 September 2017 at 4 pm, Mustafa Fayeq Salman, a 16-year-old resident of Beit Lahia, was brought to the intensive care unit of the Indonesian Hospital in the North Gaza district where he was declared clinically dead. According to Al Mezan’s field investigations, Mustafa had been detained at …

A Palestinian inmate handwrites the Quran as part of a course aimed at altering the behavior of inmates at the correctional and rehabilitation center in western Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Nov. 9, 2016. (photo by Ahmad Abu Amer) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In mid-October, a number of Palestinian inmates in the …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Rehabilitation and re-entry support centers in the Gaza Strip house hundreds of prisoners who are incarcerated for crimes and violations of the law. Based on the idea that imprisonment is aimed to reform and rehabilitate and not punish, these centers seek to implement educational and …

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Hamas-affiliated detainees in prisons across Israel threatened a campaign of disobedience Wednesday after the Israeli Prison Service said it plans to separate prisoners affiliated to Hamas in Nafha prison from those affiliated to Fatah, a prisoners’ rights group said.According to the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, the …

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Speaker of the Palestinian union of civil servants Bassam Zakarneh has been hospitalized after a sudden illness while in Palestinian Authority custody, medics said. Zakarneh needs a catheter surgery, they said. A Palestinian court on Tuesday extended the remand of Zakarana for 15 more days for further …

Former Fatah fighter Zakaria Zubeidi was released from Palestinian Authority jail on Monday evening, his lawyer said. Zubeidi has been charged with connection to the shooting on the late Jenin governor’s house in May, attorney Farid Hawash said. Qaddura Musa died hours later of a heart attack. Hawash said Zubeidi …

Author Source Palestine News Network The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported on Thursday that Israeli security had planned harsh conditions for Palestinian prisoners released under “security arrangements” in the West Bank. The Hebrew-language newspaper reported, “Any violation of the conditions, according to the agreement—being one hour late from reaching the …

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Author Source BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Legislative Council Member Ayman Daraghmeh was released from Israeli custody without charge on Thursday, the Bethlehem Prisoners Society announced. The center’s director, Fuad Al-Khafsh, said in a statement that Daraghmeh was detained in March 2009 and held at Israel’s Ofer prison center on administrative …