The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies said today, Saturday, that two-thirds of the 520 administrative prisoners in the occupation’s prisons have been renewed for administrative detention for further detention periods, ranging from two to six months.
Riyad Al-Ashkar, director of the center, said in a press statement, that the occupation aims behind the policy of administrative detention to keep the Palestinian prisoner behind bars as long as possible, without trial or charge, under the pretext of having a secret file for him, which makes these prisoners hostages to the occupation, especially as it focuses On the category of activists and leaders of national and Islamic action whom he accuses of incitement.
Al-Ashqar indicated that more than 182 administrative prisoners were renewed by the occupation twice, while 110 were renewed 3 times in a row, 62 prisoners were renewed 4 times in a row, and 13 were renewed 5 times, while there are 153 prisoners serving administrative detention for the first time. Most of them are former prisoners who were detained for different periods, whether under de facto rule or administrative detention, and were re-arrested again.
The director of the Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies said that administrative detention is a sword hanging over the necks of Palestinians, and a tool in the hands of the intelligence services, with the aim of humiliating and torturing Palestinians, undermining their morale, destroying their will, and disrupting their political and social movement, for targeting political and social elites, such as political and field activists, university students, intellectuals and academics. Members of the Legislative Council and municipal councils, and candidates for elections.
The occupation authorities are the only regimes in the world that use administrative detention in this arbitrary manner, and have enacted their own military laws, which they interpret according to their security needs, to evade international laws and defraud texts to use it without restrictions or limitations, so that it has become a legitimate sword against the Palestinian.
Al-Ashqar considered the increase in the number of prisoners on hunger strike in protest against administrative detention as a right and a natural phenomenon in light of the continued depletion of their lives without being charged by the occupation, just on suspicion, as their lives became subject to this arrest.
Al-Ashqar called on international institutions to seriously intervene to put an end to this continuous massacre of Palestinians, which keeps the Palestinian in detention for half his life or more, without legal justification.
