{"id":6189,"date":"2012-02-21T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T21:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T21:57:50","slug":"sharp-rise-in-palestinians-held-without-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6189","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in Palestinians held without trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharp rise in Palestinians held without trial: NGO<\/strong>
\n21 February 21, 2012 – Agence France Presse – The Daily Star<\/p>\n

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel is holding 309 Palestinians in prison without charge, a sharp increase from last year, an Israeli human rights group said on Tuesday, calling for the prisoners to be charged or released.<\/p>\n

B’Tselem said figures received from the Israel Prison Service (IPS) showed there were 309 Palestinians held under so-called administrative detention orders in January 2012, up from 219 in January 2011.<\/p>\n

The group said 80 of those being held had been detained for between six months and a year, another 88 had been held for between one and two years, and 16 of them had been behind bars for between two and four-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n

One man has been held in administrative detention for over five years, the group said.<\/p>\n

The figures were released as the process of administrative detention receives new attention because of the case of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian being detained without trial who has been on hunger strike for 66 days.<\/p>\n

Adnan began refusing food after he was arrested on December 17, and says he is protesting his detention without trial as well as alleged mistreatment during his interrogation.<\/p>\n

Israel has not made public any charges against Adnan, who had served as a spokesman for Islamic Jihad.<\/p>\n

Evidence submitted to a military court in support of Adnan’s administrative detention is kept secret, with even his lawyer denied access to it.<\/p>\n

Israel says administrative detention is necessary to keep dangerous individuals behind bars, but B’Tselem said the way the Jewish state was using the procedure was “patently illegal.”<\/p>\n

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