Category: Press Releases

  • Seven prisoners continue their hunger strikes despite increasing punitive measures

    Seven prisoners continue their hunger strikes despite increasing punitive measures

    19th February 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Seven Palestinian prisoners continue their individual hunger strikes as prison conditions worsen. This is the highest number of strikes since September 2013. Earlier this week, Addameer lawyer Samer Sama’an gained access to two of the three administrative detainees who started hunger strikes…

  • Crackdown on international human rights activists in Palestine: arrests, deportations, and abuse

    Crackdown on international human rights activists in Palestine: arrests, deportations, and abuse

    31st January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine With the arrest of two international human rights activists at Salem Military Court, in Jenin district, on Wednesday 29th January 2014, the total number of arrests of activists in the past month has risen to five, and the number of deportations to four. Arrested activists…

  • Peaceful protest ends in deportation and imprisonment

    Peaceful protest ends in deportation and imprisonment

    20th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine   On Saturday 18th January during a peaceful protest in the Jordan Valley, 19-year-old Ahmad Walid Atatreh, a Palestinian activist and 24-year-old Sven W, a German activist who lives in Switzerland, were arrested and beaten after a march held in Jiftlik Adam Junction. Ahmad is a law student, studying at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. The…