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Addameer Condemns Beating to Death of Palestinian in PA Custody Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association strongly condemns the beating to death of Palestinian Ahmad Izz Halaweh by Palestinian Security Forces early Tuesday morning, 23 August 2016. Mr. Halaweh was arrested by PA Security Forces and was taken to a Nablus’ Juneid...
Palestinian and Israeli NGO's Concerned by Recent Court Decision regarding Bilal Kayed On the 11th of August, the Beer Sheva District Court rejected the appeal of Bilal Kayed, who is completing 64 days of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention, and whose condition is considered critical. The court ruled that he shall remain...
Following Visit to Palestine, European Parliamentarians Call for the Release of Bilal Kayed and End to Administrative Detention Responding to an urgent request by Human Rights’ Organizations, we, Parliamentarians and Politicians from 3 different European Countries, agreed to participate in an Ad Hoc International Delegation to Palestine in support...
Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council Calls for Immediate Investigations into Threats against Human Rights Defenders The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) is gravely concerned with the continuing campaign of attacks and threats against human rights defenders and employees of PHROC member organizations, including Al-...
Across the Globe: Transnational Solidarity with Palestinian Mass Hunger Strike In light of the mass hunger strikes taking place inside Israeli prisons and detention centers in solidarity with hunger striking administrative detainee Bilal Kayed, Addameer, Samidoun, the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and Black4Palestine wish to express...
Occupation Authorities Administer Torture through Military Courts: Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council Renews its Calls for Release of Hunger Striking Administrative Detainee Bilal Kayed On 27 July 2016, the Israeli Military Court of Appeals released its decision to confirm the administrative detention of hunger-striking administrative...
Bilal Kayed, a 35 year-old Palestinian man from Nablus who is being detained by Israel has reached 43 days of hunger strike, and resolves to continue his protest until he is freed. Bilal was placed in administrative detention on 13 June 2016, when he was supposed to be released after completing a sentence of 14.5 years in an Israeli prison. In...
Occupied Ramallah – 18/7/2016 After Palestinian hunger striking prisoner Bilal Kayed was moved to Barzilai Hospital on his 33 rd day of hunger strike, Addameer lawyer Farah Bayadsi visited him today to confirm his medical condition directly. During her visit Kayed informed her that he is chained to his hospital bed, wit cuffs tied around his right...
To whom it may concern, To all those who have a living conscience in this world, to all those who believe and fight for humanity- which is being violated for the whole world to see and hear, we scream to the last bits of humanity scattered in our souls wishing for someone to join us: ENOUGH! We, the family of the subjugated prisoner Bilal Wajeeh...
PHROC Calls for the Immediate Release of Hunger Striking Administrative Detainee Bilal Kayed The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) calls for the immediate release of hunger striking administrative detainee Bilal Kayed, who has been on hunger strike for 30 days. We have been informed by attorneys that Mr. Kayed has refused to...