Days of Palestine, West Bank –Number of Palestinian administrative detainees inside Israeli jails is the highest since 2008, organisation said on Friday.
Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies said dozens of detainees have been transferred to administrative detention over the past three weeks, while the detention of 70 other prisoners has been extended. The total number became 540.
Spokesman Riyad al-Ashqar said that the Israeli occupation has used administrative detention policy for hundreds of Palestinians detained since mid-June in a large scale arrest campaign in the West Bank.
In 2008 there were 800 Palestinians held under this policy. Al-Ashqar says that the Israeli occupation aims at removing as many Palestinian leaders and youths from society as possible for a so long time.
In June, the Israeli occupation doubled the number of administrative detentions within the first ten days of an arrest campaign following the disappearance of three Israeli settlers.
The policy of administrative detention, which dates back to the British mandate, allows the Israeli occupation to hold Palestinian prisoners indefinitely without trial on the basis of secret information.
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