The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” calls the Palestinian leadership to include the files of prisoners within a list of the litigations that the state of Palestine intends to submit to the International Criminal Court against the crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation authorities upon the rights of prisoners.
Hurryyat affirms that the deliberate torture and the purposeful damage to physical health and safety that prisoners in the Israeli jails are subject to, is considered a war crime based on article 8 of the International Criminal Court’s statute.
Hurryyat believes that addressing the International Criminal Court regarding these crimes accommodates the demands of the prisoners’ movement to provide urgent intervention to protect prisoners from any violations of human rights that are guaranteed by the Humanitarian International Law and conventions of Human Rights.