27 more administrative detention orders issued against Palestinian prisoners

Israeli occupation authorities issued 27 administrative detention orders for periods between three and six months between 7 and 18 December, reported Palestinian lawyer Mahmoud Halabi of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.

Halabi noted that seven of the orders were newly issued against prisoners who had just been arrested, while 20 were renewals of existing detention orders. Included among these was the order of renewal against Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal, member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, as well as that against Mohammed Abu Sakha, the Palestinian circus performer whose continued imprisonment for over a year has sparked international protests. Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Azzam Salhab and ill academic lecturer Issam al-Ashqar also received new 6-month administrative detention orders during this time.

There are over 700 Palestinian prisoners imprisoned without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation under administrative detention orders. Issued for one to six months at a time, these orders are indefinitely renewable and Palestinians are routinely detained for years at a time with no charge, no trial, on the basis of secret evidence.

The orders issued are:

1. Shaher Jamil Al-Hih, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
2. Mahmoud Awad Al-Asakra, from Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
3. Ahmed Abdel-Basit Abu Raya, from al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
4. Bassem Abdel-Razaq Saed, from Ramallah, 4 months, extension
5. Nidal al-Hindi, from Ramallah, 6 months, new order
6. Jamal Awni Al-Aedam, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
7. Rami Mahmoud Beiram, from Ramallah, 4 months, extension
8. Sharif Mohammed Musallem, from al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
9. Salim Yousef Rajoub, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
10. Yasser Ibrahim Badrsawi, from Nablus, 4 months, extension
11. Jibril Diab Jiyawi, from al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
12. Omar Naji Nazzel, from El-Bireh, 3 months, extension
13. Hamza Ibrahim Jibril, from Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
14. Mohammed Faisal Abu Sakha, from Jenin, 6 months, extension
15. Malik Awad Abayat, from Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
16. Abdallah Abdel-Hafiz Yousef, from Nablus, 4 months, extension
17. Mohammed Yousef Awad, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
18. Mohammed Medhat Abdu, from Ramallah, 3 months, extension
19. Rami Rezeq Fadayel, from Ramallah, 6 months, extension
20. Abdel-Halim Nayef Izzedine, from Jenin, 6 months, extension
21. Ahmed Qasim Sheikh, from Bethlehem 4 months, extension
22. Salah Abdallah Zughbi, from Jenin, 6 months, extension
23. Fadi Abdel-Halim Daoud, from al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
24. Saddam Ghalib al-Saadah, from al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
25. Ismail Mohammed Al-Amsi, from al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
26. Azzam Naaman Salhab, from al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
27. Issam Rashid al-Ashqar, from Nablus, 6 months, new order