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Israeli forces detain 8-year-old Palestinian child near Hebron
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Defense for Children International reported that since 2000, at least 8,000 Palestinian children have been detained and prosecuted in an Israeli military detention system infamous for the systematic mistreatment and torture of Palestinian children.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Prisoners and Former Prisoners’ Affairs Committee reported, earlier in October, that Israel had detained 35 Palestinian minors during September 2018.

The committee’s August report documented testimonies from a number of Palestinian children during their detention by Israeli forces and revealed that the children were subjected to systematic beatings and #torture during and after their detention.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 270 Palestinian child prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 50 are under the age of 16.

#enfants #Palestine #violence #prisons “#villa_dans_la_jungle”

Carceral Landscapes: UK’s Growing Detention Spaces | Warscapes
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On October 15, 2009, United Kingdom Border Agency [UKBA] officials took Adeoti Ogunsola, a ten-year old girl who attended a primary school in Gillingham, from her aunt’s home during an early morning raid. Adeoti had been one of 1,119 children placed in immigration detention when her family was detained in the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Center [IRC] earlier that year. At the time, a psychotherapist warned that Adeoti was suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the detention and that, if detained again, she might attempt suicide. Following the raid, Adeoti was taken to Tinsley House IRC, where her mother was already being held. Staff later found Adeoti in the kitchen trying to strangle herself while her mother was asleep.

More recently, on January 11, 2017, a 27-year-old Polish detainee was found hanging in his cell at the Morton Hall IRC. He had been refused bail, a decision affected by the absence of a guarantor. His girlfriend, heavily pregnant at the time, was unable to travel to the remote center to attend the man’s bail hearing.

Whilst detention under immigration powers is supposed to be a last resort, thousands of people – often desperate and vulnerable – are detained every day across facilities in the United Kingdom, and the population is growing. Over the past two decades, the UK’s immigration detention estate has grown by almost 1,500 percent. In 1993 there were just 250 places in which immigration control legislation could see someone held in custody; today the detention estate has 3,617 places.

Immigration detention in the UK can be defined as the practice of holding a person subject to immigration control legislation in custody whilst they wait for either permission to enter the United Kingdom or their forced removal. Immigration detention is not the result of any criminal proceedings, and is not overseen by any court or judge. Under the Immigration Act of 1971, and several subsequent laws, the state has the power to deprive migrants of their freedom for as long as takes for the competent authorities to decide their status.

There is no time limit to this sort of imprisonment.

The UK operates 11 sites that are used to detain people for more than 24 hours – one of the largest networks of immigration detention facilities in Europe. There are nine IRCs used for long-term incarceration, and in 2016, almost 29,000 people entered immigration detention.

Morton Hall occupies the site of a former prison and is run as an immigration detention centre by the Prison Service on behalf of the Home Office. Prior to that, it was a base for the Royal Air Force; it occupies a vast portion of land, surrounded by sparse woodland, and ultimately by the arable land of Lincolnshire.

13 PLC members held by Israel after Khalida Jarrar detained in overnight raidsJuly 2, 2017 10:49 A.M. (Updated: July 2, 2017 5:07 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar during predawn military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Sunday — just over a year after she was released from Israeli prison — bringing the number of Palestinian lawmakers imprisoned by Israel to 13.

At least 11 other Palestinians were detained in the raids, included the chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.

Israeli forces detained Jarrar, a deputy at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) for the leftist faction the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), after raiding her home in Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.

She was released from Israeli prison on June 3, 2016 on a suspended sentence of 12 months within a five-year period.

Following her detention 14 months prior, she was initially sentenced to six months of administrative detention — internment without trial or charge — though international pressure forced Israeli authorities to bring charges against her, all 12 of which focused on her political activism.

Jarrar was charged with security-related offenses related to her membership and activities with the PFLP — a Palestinian political party Israel considers a “terrorist” organization, along with the majority of other Palestinian political factions — and accused of inciting violence.

At the time, Jarrar accused the Israeli military prosecution of working to keep her in jail as long as possible, adding that she “did not expect anything from military courts. They are a joke, it’s like a big theater, I do not trust them and my detention has been political since the beginning.”

Jarrar also said that she refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the court, stating that all charges pressed against her were “ridiculous” and related to completely legal activities, including social and political work as a member of parliament.

A statement released by the Israeli army Sunday morning claimed that Jarrar was detained for activities within PFLP and that her detention was not related to her post as member of the PLC.

Jarrar is also the head of the Prisoners’ Commission in the PLC, and vice-chairperson of the board of directors of Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.

Addameer said in a statement Sunday morning that “the arrest of Khalida Jarrar constitutes an attack against Palestinian political leaders and Palestinian civil society as a whole. It also constitutes one arrest in the context of continuous arrest campaigns against Palestinians.”

#Khalida_Jarrar

88 Palestinians Kidnapped Since the Beginning of October

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88 Palestinians Kidnapped Since the Beginning of October
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Detention of MPs renewed without charge

Israeli authorities have kidnapped 88 Palestinian citizens since the beginning of October, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club. Additionally, the administrative detention orders of six Palestinian MPs have been renewed.

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According to the Palestinian News Network, Prisoners Club officials announced Thursday that Israeli authorities have taken 88 Palestinian citizens into custody since the beginning of this month, with reference to legal records held by the club.

The highest percentage of imprisonment was accounted for in Hebron (25 prisoners), followed by Jerusalem (20 prisoners).

In Bethlehem the number reportedly reached 11, in Salfit 10, while the remaining prisoners were from the Nablus, Ramallah, Al Bireh, Tubas, Qalqilya and Tulkarm districts.

Also on Thursday, Israeli authorities renewed the administrative detention of six Palestinian Members of Parliament affiliated with the Hamas political movement, sources in the party told Ma’an News Agency.

The decision to keep the six lawmakers in detention without trial or charges reportedly comes after they already completed between three and six months each under similar conditions.

The MPs being held captive by Israel were identified as: Basim Zaarir, who will be held for six more months, Omar Abd al-Raziq, 3 more months, Azzam Salhab, 4 more months, Ibrahim Abu Salim, 4 more months, Fadil Hamdan, 3 more months, and former minister Issa Jaabari, 3 more months.

As of mid-September, 33 Palestinian MPs and two ministers were being held in detention by Israel.

Ma’an further reports that over 7,000 Palestinians are currently being held by Israel, including around 500 under the policy of administrative detention, in which prisoners are detained without charge or trial — a colonial practice which dates back to the time of British Mandate borders.

See IMEMC Special Report: 04/16/14 “800,000 Palestinians Imprisoned By Israel Since 1967” for further info.

#Palestine #Cisjordanie #Israël #occupation

Palestinian detainees vow to keep up hunger strike: ’Death over compromise’
Prime Minister Netanyahu looks for way to legally force-feed rather than negotiate with the 100-125 hunger-striking detainees.
By Jack Khoury | Jun. 10, 2014
Haaretz
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The leadership of the Palestinian administrative detainees announced on Monday morning that the detainees are unwilling to compromise in their struggle and that they will continue their hunger strike even if it costs them their lives.

Through their attorney, the detainees sent the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club a letter claiming that the medical teams who are treating the 70 hospitalized detainees were collaborating with the Prisons Service, and that some of the detainees had been chained to their hospital beds.

“The nurses, who are supposed to be angels of mercy, come into our rooms with food to break our spirits, but we will not give up until we accomplish our goal, and we are willing to die for it,” the detainees wrote. “Each one of us has already written his will, and we have sworn that there is no way back.”

Regarding the claim that some of the hospitalized hunger-strikers are chained to their beds, the detainees wrote, “We hear comments such as ‘Crucify them,’ and then their right arms and left legs are chained to the bed 24 hours a day.” They added that most of them are suffering from side effects, that 13 detainees suffer from bleeding and that some are suffering from low blood sugar. “We ask the world how long they will ignore us. Maybe if we die, the world will wake up.”

Israel has 189 people in administrative detention. Between 100 and 125 detainees are participating in the hunger strike, which was declared on April 24. They are drinking water with vitamins, salt and sugar. The medical condition of about 70 of these has deteriorated, and they are hospitalized under heavy guard. From time to time, security prisoners begin solidarity hunger strikes with the administrative detainees in one of the prisons, for a limited time.

We Need to Stop Shackling Pregnant Women in Prison—Now.

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Imagine a woman actively in labor. Now, imagine her handcuffed. Attached to those handcuffs is a chain that links her wrists to a chain wrapped around her belly. That belly chain is the same weight as a bicycle chain. Attached to her belly chain is yet another chain that attaches to shackles around her feet.

This is commonly known as “shackling” and is a grim reality for many women in the United States. In 32 states, prisons and jails are permitted to shackle incarcerated women during childbirth—even though the American Medical Association says the practice is unsafe, “medically hazardous,” and “barbaric.”

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Although eighteen states have enacted legislation prohibiting shackling during childbirth, only six of those states prohibit shackling people during other points in their pregnancy.

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#shackling #prison #pregnancy #reproductive_rights #women_in_prison #Prison_Activist #BirthingBehindBars

Guantánamo Hunger Strike Enters 100th Day ; 30 Prisoners Being Force-Fed

Headlines for May 17, 2013 | Democracy Now !
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The hunger strike by prisoners at Guantánamo Bay has entered its 100th day. The U.S. military now says 102 out of 166 prisoners are on strike, while lawyers for the prisoners maintain the number is higher. Thirty hunger strikers are being force-fed through nasal tubes pushed into their stomachs. Three have been hospitalized. The prisoners launched their protest against indefinite detention in early February. Most have been held for more than a decade without charge or trial.

#Prison Assemblée nationale ~ Compte rendu provisoire ~ Deuxième séance du mardi 30 octobre 2012
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M. Éric Ciotti. Je pense ainsi à l’aménagement systématique des peines, qui va à l’encontre d’un des principes fondamentaux de notre droit pénal, l’individualisation des peines, que vous défendez par ailleurs avec beaucoup de force. Je pense en particulier aussi à la suppression des courtes peines que vous évoquez dans votre circulaire pénale. Ces choix seront hélas très lourds de conséquences, en matière de récidive notamment.

Mme Joëlle Huillier. Restez huit jours en prison, et vous verrez !

Rights group: Israel violated terms of prisoner swap
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According to Addameer- Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Israel has consistently failed to respect agreements regarding the release of Palestinian prisoners. While Israel was reportedly supposed to free long term prisoners, Addameer found that 74 percent of the 550 prisoners released in December had sentences of five years of less. Further, only 55 children of the more than 159 children in Israeli detention were released.