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An Arabic version of this testimony first appeared in the Institute for Palestine Studies and was translated by Ruba Bakeer and republished with permission. This testimony is from our daily life in prison. I hastily prepared it amidst difficult imprisonment conditions, especially deliberate power cuts, a shortage of essentials like cigarettes, a lack of our […]
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Testimony from prison: unprecedented brutality against Palestinian detainees
November 22nd, 2023 
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No Comments »Israel cuts off electricity, water supplies to over 5,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails
October 13th, 2023 Awake Goy Israel has cut off electricity and water for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, in an apparent step to prevent them from aiding the conflict between occupation forces and Palestinian resistance fighters on the outside. According to Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which cited senior officials in the country’s Prison Service, “electricity has been cut off for […]
Posted in Middle East, News Tags: detainees, electricity, israel, israeli, palestinian, supplies, water No Comments »Palestinian detainees plan hunger strike to protest Israeli restrictions
September 4th, 2023 Awake Goy Palestinian detainees in Israel plan an open-ended hunger strike as of Sept. 14 to protest Israeli restrictions, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the strike aims to pile pressure on the Israeli prison authorities to reverse restrictions against the detainees. “The prisoners want all restrictions imposed against them reversed,” the NGO […]
Posted in Middle East, News Tags: detainees, hunger, israeli, palestinian, protest, restrictions, strike No Comments »Egypt frees 46 pretrial detainees, including activist Haitham Mohamadin
September 16th, 2022 Awake Goy Egyptian authorities yesterday ordered the release of 46 pretrial detainees, including lawyer and leftist political activist Haitham Mohamadin. Member of the Presidential Pardon Committee, Tariq Al-Awadi, announced the release on Twitter, noting that the 45 detainees have been held in pretrial detention over cases dating back to 2020 and 2021. Al-Awadi went on to thank […]
Commission of the Detainees Spox: Open Hunger Strike Is Response to “Israeli” Mistreatment of Palestinian Detainees
August 29th, 2022 Awake Goy August 28, 2022 By Fatima Haydar Beirut – In the past few days, the “Israel” Prison Service [IPS] announced its intention to take measures against Palestinian life imprisoned detainees – some 560 prisoners – which included the arbitrary transfer of detainees from their sections and rooms to new sections and rooms and different prisons. This […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: commission, detainees, hunger, israeli, mistreatment, response, strike No Comments »Climate Justice Alliance joins call for Egypt to release detainees ahead of COP27
August 25th, 2022 Awake Goy The Climate Justice Alliance has joined a call by Egyptian human rights movements for the release of arbitrary detainees ahead of COP27 which will be held on the Red Sea of Sharm El-Skeikh in November. CJA are also calling on the Egyptian government to end the persecution of civil society activists and organisations, and to […]
ISM co-founder refuses to show in court in solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainees
February 25th, 2022 Awake Goy An Israeli court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli anti-apartheid activist Neta Golan, after she refused to appear in court in solidarity with a months-long boycott of Israeli courts by Palestinian administrative detainees. The magistrate court in Ashdod issued a warrant for Golan, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), on February 21st after she […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: administrative, court, detainees, founder, palestinian, refuses, solidarity No Comments »FOA calls for release of all Palestinian administrative detainees
January 7th, 2022 Awake Goy FOA supporters gather outside the Israeli Embassy in London to call on Israel to comply with international law and end its unfair use of administrative detention, on 6 Jan 2022 [Friends of Al-Aqsa] A campaign calling for an end to the administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial – of Palestinians by occupation forces […]
Posted in Middle East, News Tags: administrative, Calls, detainees, palestinian, release No Comments »Administrative detainees boycott Israel courts
December 21st, 2021 Awake Goy Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli jails have decided to boycott Israeli courts from next month, Arab48 reported yesterday. The announcement was made during a press conference held in the head office of the PLO’s Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Commission in Ramallah. According to the announcement, all Palestinian prisoners announced they would support the measure carried out by administrative […]
Urgent Appeal to Protect the Lives of Palestinian Administrative Detainees on Hunger-Strike in Israeli Prisons
November 17th, 2021 Awake Goy November 16, 2021 By KhamakarPress News – Israel’s Terrorism Against Human Rights NGOs Since its founding in 1948, the “State of Israel” has promoted an intense campaign to erase Palestinian history, culture and resistance on all its fronts. Human rights organizations such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) and activists around the world are the […]
Posted in human rights violation Tags: administrative, appeal, detainees, lives, palestinian, protect, urgent No Comments »Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas Warn ‘Israel’: Detainees’ Lives Redline
November 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Posted on November 4, 2021 by indigoblue76 Nov 3, 2021 By Staff Palestinian ‘Islamic Jihad’ and ‘Hamas’ resistance movements threatened to escalate once again hadn’t the detainees’ sufferings in the ‘Israeli’ occupation prisons been finished, especially amid the news circulating that the hunger strike might lead to the martyrdom of some of them. The resistance […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: detainees, Hamas, islamic, israel, jihad, lives, palestinian No Comments »Myanmar’s military systematically torture its detainees: AP
October 30th, 2021 Awake Goy An Associated Press investigation revealed that Myanmar’s military uses systematic torture on detainees across the country since it took over the government in February. An estimated 1,200 people have been killed by security forces, including around 131 tortured to death. The military has also abducted thousands, including young men and boys, has used the bodies […]
Egypt denies claims political detainees seek to reconcile with the state
October 5th, 2021 Awake Goy An Egyptian security source denied the existence and circulation of a letter calling for reconciliation between political detainees and the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The source, whose identity was not revealed, accused the Muslim Brotherhood of promoting this story through the media. This comes after news sites circulated a message attributed to detainees […]
‘Justice for J6’: Protesters Call for Due Process for Capitol Attack Detainees
September 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Despite reports of potential violence and beefed up security, including the National Guard and fencing, Saturday’s “Justice for J6” rally attracted a few hundred demonstrators and ended without major incidence. Photos and video taken around the Capitol show media and police, many heavily armed and in riot gear, vastly outnumbered protesters, who were gathered in support […]
Arkansas sheriff convicted of assaulting two detainees in custody
August 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Accused of beating detainees who were not resisting or fighting back, an Arkansas sheriff was recently convicted on two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. On November 21, 2018, Franklin County Sheriff Anthony Boen pushed a detainee identified as “B.E.” onto the floor and grabbed his hair or beard during an interrogation. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: arkansas, assaulting, convicted, custody, detainees, sheriff No Comments »Palestinian Detainees Stage Hunger Strike to Protest “Administrative Detention”
July 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy 23 July 2021 By Staff The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced that 5 Palestinian detainees have staged a hunger strike, in support of 8 other prisoners who are currently on an open hunger strike in protest of the “administrative detention” policy. The club stated that the prisoners, Alaa El-Din Khaled Ali, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman Abu Sale, Muhammad […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: administrative, detainees, hunger, palestinian, protest, stage, strike No Comments »Jan. 6 Detainees Confined 23 Hours a Day, Attorneys Say
July 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Dozens detained in federal prison awaiting trial following the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building are being subject to solitary confinement, lack of required medical care, and restricted access to defense counsel, according to two attorneys and the father of a defendant. Of the close to 500 arrests made so far in connection […]
Iraq refuses to deport foreign detainees to their countries
June 29th, 2021 Awake Goy The Iraqi government has confirmed its refusal to deport foreign citizens convicted for terrorism so that they can serve the rest of their sentences in their own countries, Anadolu has reported. “Arab and foreign terrorists arrested according to Article 4 [of the Anti-Terrorism Law], will not be deported to their countries until they have fully […]
Posted in Iraq, Middle East, News Tags: countries, deport, detainees, foreign, refuses, their No Comments »Malaysia to hand 1,200 Myanmar detainees to country’s navy
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Malaysia will deport 1,200 detained Myanmar nationals after the Myanmar military government, which took over in a Feb. 1 coup, offered to send three navy ships to pick them up, officials from both countries and two sources told Reuters. Myanmar, via its embassy in Kuala Lumpur, made the offer to take back its citizens held […]
Ansarullah Releases Two US Prisoners in Exchange For 200 Yemeni Detainees
October 16th, 2020 Awake Goy By Staff, Agencies Yemen’s popular Ansarullah revolutionary movement released two American prisoners as part of a deal that also secured the return of more than 200 Yemenis stuck in Oman as a result of the Saudi-led blockade of the war-torn country. The Wednesday swap apparently involved Saudi Arabia and Oman, which frequently plays the role […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ansarullah, detainees, exchange, prisoners, releases, yemeni No Comments »Iran sends three Turkmen detainees home
June 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy IRNA – Three Turkmen who were detained because of entering the Iranian waters in the Caspian Sea were delivered to the Turkmen authorities, said the commander of the Atrak border police in Golestan Province on Sunday. ‘Sending the three Turkmens to their country was done upon an order from Iranian authorizes,’ said Colonel Mohammad-Reza Saravani. […]
Israeli threats fail to end detainees’ boycott of military courts
April 21st, 2018 Awake Goy Tamara Nassar Rights and Accountability 18 April 2018 Palestinian women protest in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, 17 April. Anne Paq ActiveStills Israeli occupation forces are threatening and beating Palestinian detainees in an attempt to pressure them to end their boycott of Israeli military courts. Some have been […]
US Admiral: Guantanamo Bay ‘Prepared’ For VIP Detainees
February 16th, 2018 Awake Goy A top US military official confirmed on Thursday that Guantanamo Bay is “prepared” to take in new VIP detainees, and is just waiting on the order to do so. President Trump last month signed an executive order reversing Obama’s 2009 directive to close down the infamous terrorist prison. According to a Military of Defense report, […]
Iran rejects certain reports on detainees of recent unressts
January 12th, 2018 Awake Goy IRNA – Iran’s Prosecutor General on Thursday rejected certain biased reports about a number of detainees of the recent unrests in the country saying reports on suicide of one of the protesters in a jail in southern Iran was ‘fake’ and ‘not true’. ‘The reports on the suicide of one of the detainees in the […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: certain, detainees, recent, rejects, reports, unressts No Comments »Saudi Arabia releases detainees held in corruption probe
December 26th, 2017 Awake Goy Saudi Arabia’s authorities have released a number of detained royals allegedly involved in corruption in public office. The move came after a settlement was agreed with the suspects, the daily Okaz reported yesterday. The pro-government newspaper added that the detainees, who had been held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, included a serving minister and […]
Cops Having Sex With Detainees Should Always Be Considered Rape, Say New York Politicians
November 13th, 2017 Awake Goy When New York City Council Member Mark Treyger read about Anna Chambers’s case, he was appalled. News of the alleged rape of an 18-year-old by two undercover detectives from the New York Police Department while she was detained in their car was disturbing enough. When the Brooklyn City Council member learned that officers Eddie Martins […]
ACLU: US Immigration Authorities Abusing Iraqi Detainees
September 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy US authorities are abusing Iraqi immigrants facing deportation and coercing them into waiving their legal rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a court filing on Thursday. A federal judge in Detroit halted the deportations of all Iraqis in July to allow the immigrants to obtain the paperwork and legal representation they need […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: abusing, authorities, detainees, immigration, iraqi No Comments »Palestinian detainees suspend hunger strike after reaching an agreement with Israel
May 28th, 2017 Awake Goy nsnbc : Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have suspended their hunger strike on Saturday after having reached an agreement with Israeli authorities. (archives) Palestinian […]
Posted in World News Tags: after, detainees, hunger, palestinian, reaching, strike, suspend No Comments »Hunger strike enters 39th day, Many Palestinian detainees face life-threatening complications
May 26th, 2017 Awake Goy IMEMC : The head of the Palestinian Detainees Committee, Issa Qaraqe, has reported that as the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons enter their 39th […]
Posted in World News Tags: complications, detainees, enters, hunger, palestinian, strike, threatening No Comments »Ambushes on Police Continue: Three Cops Dead, Four Injured in Baton Rouge
July 18th, 2016 Awake Goy Dan McCue | Courthouse News Service Three police officers were killed and four others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday morning while on duty less than a mile from police headquarters. Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said one suspect is dead and law enforcement officials […]
Posted in World News Tags: attack, detainees, israeli, palestinian, prison, ramon, soldiers No Comments »
