Prisoners

Bethlehem/PNN/ On 7 July 2021, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC)[1] submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures on the imminent threat to the life …

Hebron /PNN/ Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, continues his hunger strike today for the 61st day in a row in protest of his unfair detention without charge …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Seven Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons are currently on an open-ended hunger strike against administrative detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The PPS said in a …

Ramallah/PNN/ President Mahmoud Abbas received today a phone call from the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during which they discussed the latest developments. During the call, Abbas stressed the …

Bethlehem/PNN/ The question of Palestinian prisoners, as one of the forefront issues of the Palestinian national agenda, is a crucial part of our national and legitimate struggle in defending the …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Palestine has called upon the international community as well as signatories to the Geneva Conventions to take on their responsibilities concerning the protection of Palestinian detainees being kept in …

Bethlehem/PNN/ 17th of April 2021 The Palestinian people and freedom advocates around the world celebrate the “Palestinian Prisoner’s Day”, which is April 17 of each year, after it was approved …

Bethlehem /PNN/ The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed on Friday that another detainee had contracted the coronavirus at the Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank. PPS said in …

Bethlehem /PNN/ Israeli military forces continue to target young Palestinians and violently arrest them across the occupied territories, having detained 230 minors since the beginning of the current year. The …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Thirty-five female Palestinian prisoners are currently behind Israeli bars, a local NGO has announced ahead of International Women’s Day, noting that eleven of the prisoners are mothers. In a …

PNN/ Ramallah/ The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies (PCPS) has warned that cancer-stricken prisoner Hussein al-Masalmeh, 37, may die any moment after his health condition has seriously worsened in Soroka …

PNN/ Ramallah/ The Prisoners and Ex Prisoners Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society on Wednesday evening announced the passing of prisoner Maher Sa’sa’ (45 years) from Qalqilya, in Rimonim …

PNN/ Nablus/ The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority reported on Sunday that rainwater leaked and flooded the rooms in which the prisoners are being held in the Hawara detention center, …

PNN/ Jerusalem/ The media advisor to the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, Hassan Abed Rabbo, said that there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people infected with …

PNN/ Ramallah/ The number of “Coronavirus cases among prisoners in Section 4 of Rimon Prison increased to (8) since the announcement of the infection of a prisoner in the aforementioned …