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Monday 30 Nov 2015 - 14:06 Makkah mean time-18-2-1437
Ramallah, (IINA) - The Israeli authority has issued administrative detention orders on Sunday to 23 Palestinians, WAFA reported citing the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC).
Eight of the prisoners received administrative detention for the duration of six months, 13 of them received for four months and one of them received it for three months.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial, and it is usually based on secret evidence that Israel does not reveal. It lasts for up to six months and it could be indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, said the international law stipulates that administrative detention may be exercised only in very exceptional cases. Nevertheless, Israeli authorities routinely employ administrative detention on thousands of Palestinians.
Israel uses administrative detention regularly as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians, and frequently uses administrative detention when it fails to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.
The Palestinian human rights group Addameer stated: “Administrative detention in the occupied Palestinian territories is ordered by a military commander and grounded on 'security reasons'. Detainees are held without trial and without being told the evidence against them".
It added: "In most cases, they are simply informed that there is ‘secret evidence’ against them and that they are being held for security reasons”.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy, which violates international law.
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