Ref: 34/2011Each year on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners Day is commemorated in order to support and recognize Palestinians currently in custody in Israel. Since 1979, the date marks the release of Palestinian prisoners by Israel as part of a prisoner swap in 1974. Between 1967 and 1988 more than 600,000...
Ref: 22/2011 Mr. Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) was elected as the President of Board of Trustees of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, at the conclusion of the eight general assembly of the Organization its head office in Cairo on 14 and...
Ramallah, 17 April 2011 – Every year, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day provides an opportunity to reflect on the continuing incarceration and ill-treatment of Palestinians who have been detained, sometimes without charge or trial, for their resistance to the Israeli occupation and its illegal policies and practices. Although the total number of...
Amal Abdul-Allah, 44, from Tulkarem, has endured a long history of arrests in her family. Her father was imprisoned for 17 years. Her husband was arrested and released in 1983. Her brother and nephew were also both in Israeli prisons for some time. And in February 2009, Israeli...
Amal Fayez Juma'a, 39, was arrested on 4 May 2004 and is currently serving an 11-year sentence at Damon prison in Haifa. Her brother Jameel, 43, told PCHR about the circumstances of her arrest: "We were asleep when the soldiers came at around 1:30am. When they knocked on our...
Fairouz Afaf was born in 1948 in the Daraj area of Gaza City. While a student in secondary school in the 1970s, she was arrested three times and spent a total of 18 months in the Israeli-administered Saraya prison in Gaza City. Sitting in an office at the Red...
Reham Afahna sits on a mattress on the ground of her living room in the Tel el Zaatar area of Jabaliya Refugee Camp. A child is screaming next door and a constant banging noise disrupts her as she tells PCHR about her son Taha, 29, who was arrested...
Sitting in their large empty cinder block living room in Jabaliya Refugee Camp, Omar Inshahsi and his wife, Umm Abdallah, told PCHR about life with a family member in an Israeli jail. This story is the story of thousands of Palestinian families who have to live without a loved...
Akram Abd al-Azeez Mansour was arrested on 2 August 1979, at the age of 16. He has been in prison for over 30 years, which makes him the longest-held prisoner in the West Bank governorate of Qalqiliya. His sister Amal tells PCHR, "he was sentenced to life for...
In August 2001, Israeli forces assassinated Abu Ali Mustafa, the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In retaliation, the PFLP killed the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Ze'evi. Abla Sa'adat's husband, Ahmad Sa'adat, succeeded Abu Ali Mustafa as the Secretary-General of the PFLP. In...
