Colleague Hiba Ayyad presented a speech titled “Sick Prisoners in Danger, Let’s Save Them” representing Hurryyat Center at the Second Conference of the European Alliance in Defense of Palestine Detainees, held at the city of Berlin – Germany. The speech combined the issues discussed below. The cause of sick prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons […]
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 […]
