Israeli occupation forces issued 29 more administrative detention orders between 18 December and 29 December, reported Palestinian Prisoners’ Society lawyer Mahmoud Halabi. Administrative detainees are imprisoned without charge or trial under indefinitely renewable detention orders of one to six months. There are over 700 Palestinian prisoners held under administrative detention on the baiss of secret evidence, out of a total of over 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners.
Halabi noted that 11 of the orders were issued for the first time against newly arrested prisoners, while 18 of the orders were renewals of ongoing detention orders. Over 75 orders have now been issued in the month of December for the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial. Among these administrative detainees is Osama Shaheen, the journalist and prisoners’ activist, whose detention was renewed for an additional four months.
The orders issued were as follows:
1. Amir Shtayyeh, from Nablus, 4 months, extension
2. Osama Shaheen, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
3. Islam Ziad Madani, from Nablus, 4 months, new order
4. Tamer Yasser Yaghmour, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
5. Mohammed Mahmoud Neiroukh, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
6. Salameh Fathi Matariyeh, from el-Bireh, 6 months, extension
7. Iyad Salemeh Dabsin, from Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
8. Fathi Mohammed Atoum, from Jenin, 6 months, new order
9. Hussam Khaled Tamam, from Tulkarem, 4 months, new order
10. Abdel-Fattah Fayez Al-Saeed, from Tulkarem, 6 months, new order
11. Murad Mohammed Fashafsheh, from Jenin, 4 months, extension
12. Mosab Akef Isteieh, from Nablus, 4 months, extension
13. Saleh Amin Kamil, from Jenin, 6 months, new order
14. Mohammed Ibrahim Abu Serhan, from Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
15. Ahmad Ibrahim Zahran, from Ramallah, 3 months, extension
16. Islam Saleh Dar Musa, from Ramallah, 4 months, extension
17. Mohammed Daoud Khawaja, from Ramallah, 6 months, extension
18. Mabrouk Mahmoud Jarrar, from Jenin, 4 months, extension
19. Bajis Mahmoud Suweita, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
20. Amjad Abdel-Razaq al-Rajabi, from al-Khalil, 3 months, extension
21. Mamoun Ahmad Hour, from al-Khalil, 3 monhts, extension
22. Younis Mohammed Abu Remaileh, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
23. Suleiman Ibrahim Shamali, from Ramallah, 3 months, new order
24. Ziad Mohammed Nawajah, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
25. Yousef Mohammed Abu Latifa, from Ramallah, 4 months, new order
26. Ahmed Nasri Sabarneh, from al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
27. Salim Mohammed Abu Eid, from Ramallah, 6 months, new order
28. Osama Zaid Saleh, from Salfit, 4 months, extension
29. Abdel-Rahman Ishaq Hamdan, from Ramallah, 4 months, new order