Bethlehem – Ma’an exclusive: the State of Palestine is aiming at fulfilling its obligations arising from its accession to the Convention Against Torture (CAT), while human rights organizations are keenly working on ensuring the prevention of any possible violations, while also adapting laws to conform with international standards. Helmi Araj, Executive Director of the Center […]
Acting upon the resolutions of the national conference held on 25/02/2015, the Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” launches a national campaign against the Israeli policy of banning travel as a means of opposing this policy gravely damaging the lives of tens of thousands of citizens of different strata, violating the basic […]
The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights (Hurryyat) highly appreciates the preparations taking place for the realization of the Second Conference of the European Alliance in Defense of Palestinian Detainees titled “The Conference of Martyr Ziad Abu Ein.” The conference will take place in Berlin on the 30th and the 31st of the […]
For Palestinians, 2015 marks the 67th year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland. This ongoing Nakba (‘catastrophe’) continues to be perpetuated through Israel’s denial of the Palestinian refugees’ Right of Return, the right to self-determination, and various other Israeli policies, which give rise to forced displacement, including forcible transfer as a grave breach […]
The Palestinian security services summoned and arrested nearly 20 former and current students from Bir Zeit University, north of Ramallah, who belong to the Islamic Bloc, after the Bloc’s victory in Student Council Elections on 22 April 2015. According to monitoring and documentation from PHROC organizations, such arrests and summons came in the backdrop of […]
The Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights (Hurryyat) condemns the reimprisonment of 73 ex-detainees liberated in the Shalit Swap Deal “the devotion of the free,” and condemns the sentencing of 45 of them including Neal Barghouti, Samer Essawi, Mahdi Al-Assi, and Khalid Makhamra. This operation marks a blatant violation of the terms […]
Palestinian Prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons comprise an essential fraction of our people; they gave up their youth and sacrificed their freedom for the rights of their people. Due to the Israeli measures, they were deprived of all their rights including their right to basic and higher education. Against these Israeli measures contradicting every […]
Prisoner Rateb Hreibat, Detainee representative of the Ramla Hospital Prison, stated that after the death of liberated prisoner Jaafar Awad, sick prisoners are sensing the danger threatening their lives and are waiting for their close martyrdom any moment even after their release. They believe that even after their release they will already be half alive […]
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) organized a field visit to the Gaza Strip during the 20th and the 24th of April 2015. The council delegation came from the West Bank to witness the deterioration of the human rights in the Strip, particularly after the last war on Gaza, the ongoing siege on the […]
Ramallah- The High Follow-up Committee for Prisoner Affairs and the head of the Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights (Hurryyat), Helmi Araj, called for internationalizing the cause of prisoners and retrieving their legitimate title as prisoners of war, while immediately transferring their case to the International Criminal Court with no further delay. […]
During her visit to Ofer Prison, Ibtisam Al-Anati, Attorney of the Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights (Hurryyat), visited several prisoners amongst them prisoner Abdul Fattah Doleh, representative of detained minors in Ofer, who confirmed an increase in the number of detained children. An overcrowding of the sections resulted in the transfer of […]
Important Prisoners Statistics on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day April 17th 2015 On this glorious day, the day of the Palestinian prisoner, the birth of the prisoners’ movement and the symbol of their national struggle, the Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights (Hurryyat) honors this occasion and celebrates the dignity and pride of the prisoners […]
