administrative detention
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- selected articles and reports about ahmad qatamesh:
- The Katamesh Case, by Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz, Friday, 6 February 1998
- Held for five years without trial, ArabicNews.com, 29 September 1997
- "To win the people" - An interview with Suha Barghouti - wife of the longest serving administrative detainee - Ahmad Qattamesh. Abridged from NEWS FROM WITHIN
- Ahmad Qatamesh from the Jailed without Trial Exhibition page (see below)
- selected articles and reports about administrative detention:
- B'Tselem's Urgent Action - End Administrative Detention rapid response network. Lots of suggestions on how to take action.
- Current Birzeit administrative detainees from the Human Rights Action Project, Birzeit University.
- Jailed without Trial. A Protest Exhibition. Nearly fifty Israeli artists -- Jews and Arabs -- using an exhibit opening on Human Rights Day on Dec 10 to protest against the administrative detention of more than 500 Palestinians held without trial. (10 December 1997).
- LAW Palestinian Prisoners Page. A website devoted to information about Palestinian prisoners, torture, administrative detention, detailed information about individual prisoners and a solidarity campaign. (October 1997).
- Prisoners of Peace. A B'Tselem report documenting widespread, political use of administrative detention with no due process (28 May 28 1997).
- Administative detention: Despair, uncertainty and lack of due process" A report by Amnesty International (30 April 1997).
- Human rights -- A year of shattered hopes A report by Amnesty International (15 July 1995).
- Detained Without Trial: Administrative Detention in the Occupied Territories Since the Beginning of the Intifada. A Report by B'Tselem, the Israeli Center for October 1992.
- other information about palestinian prisoners:
- LAW, the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment has a prisoners website entitled No Peace Without Freedom.
- An example of the types of arbitrary mass arrests by the Palestinian Authority can be found here, in the Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict feature, Birzeit students in Palestinian detention.
- israeli and palestinian human rights organisations:
- AIC
- B'Tselem
- Human Rights Action Project, Birzeit University
- LAW- the Palestinian Society for the protection of human rights and the environment
- Mandela Institute
- Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
- The Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites - human rights listings
