Israeli Occupation Forces Arrest Human Rights Defender and Addameer Lawyer Salah Hammouri
07-03-2022 | Addameer
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In the early morning hours on 7 March 2022, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed the home of human rights defender and Addameer lawyer Salah Hammouri in Kufr Aqab, arbitrarily arresting him and transferring him to Ofer Israeli Military Prison.
Salah Hammouri, 36 years old, is a Palestinian-French Jerusalemite, long-time human rights defender (HRD), lawyer, and former political prisoner. Over the years, Salah has been relentlessly targeted by Israeli occupation authorities, subjected to arbitrary arrests, administrative detention without charge or trial, exorbitant fines, travel bans against him and his family, the deportation of his wife and French national Elsa Lefort, and, most recently, the illegal revocation of his permanent residency and forced deportation from Jerusalem on 18 October 2021. Moreover, on 8 November 2021, a Front Line Defenders investigation conducted in collaboration with Citizen Lab and Amnesty International’s Security Lab found that Salah Hammouri had been one of six Palestinian HRDs hacked by Israeli NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware. (...)
