Following HaMoked's petition to the HCJ to instruct the Israel Prison Service to improve the inadequate holding conditions at the Petah Tikva detention facility: the State Attorney's Office has notified that the facility is undergoing renovation

 

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Following HeMoked's revelation: the military announces it will cease the illegal practice of holding Palestinian detainees at the "Mul Nevo" military base which is not an incarceration facility

Class action complaint against the Israel Prison Service: collects fees from inmates illegally

Taken from the website of No Legal Frontiers.

Follow up on holding conditions at the Petah Tikva detention facility by B’Tselem and HaMoked: HaMoked files 3 HCJ petitions regarding the severe holding conditions and deficiencies in investigating complaints by detainees:

In the beginning of the first intifada, Israel conducted mass arrests in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Many detainees were transferred to a special holding facility built far away in Qetziot, in the Negev desert.In the Sajdiya judgment,[1] the Supreme Court reviewed a number of issues relating to the prison camp. The court instructed the military to resolve the issue of severe ove...

For some 42 years, Israel has controlled the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. On one hand, Israel treats this area as a single unit. On the other hand, it implements a regime under which one law applies to a certain segment of the population and another, military law, applies to another. The status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as occupied territories is used to jus...

In a different commentary on this website I addressed the Wajia judgment[1], in which the Supreme Court legitimized the operation of military courts established under the laws of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) inside Israel.Although Israelis staff governmental institutions both in Israel and in the OPT, these are two separate governmental apparatus. The Israeli apparatus is headed b...

The Israel Prison Service clarifies its regulations governing deposits to security prisoners’ canteen accounts: the regulations infringe on the rights of Palestinian prisoners and their relatives

Following HaMoked's intervention: a father is allowed to visit his son, imprisoned in Israel

HaMoked petitions under the Freedom of Information Act, requesting to compel the postal bank and the prison service to answer its inquiries, sent over nine months ago, regarding their management of security prisoners' deposit accounts in the bank

Palestinians from the West Bank are routinely transferred for arrest and incarceration in holding facilities inside Israel. Additionally, legal proceedings in the cases of Palestinians from the West Bank are held in military courts inside Israel. The petitioners, human rights organizations, argued in a High Court of Justice (HCJ) petition that the policy of holding Palestinian detainees and pri...

Petition by HaMoked to instruct the Attorney General to examine complaints of torture during ISA interrogations in an efficient and timely manner and to formulate a procedure for such examination, ascertaining, inter alia, that complaints are not ignored. HaMoked recalls that no one is above the law and that, under the Criminal Procedural Code, the police has an obligation to investigate any su...

Following a petition by HaMoked, the military police formulated and published a procedure for handling requests of an external party for the disclosure of investigation materials

HaMoked’s complaint on behalf of a detainee against IPS officials and ISA interrogators. The complaint refers to acts which come under the prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. According to the complaint, the IPS and the ISA allow their agents to treat Palestinian detainees in a manner breaching absolute prohibitions under any law. HaMoked demands the Attorney Gener...

Petition of HaMoked to instruct the Israel Prison Service to hand over medical records of prisoners and ex-prisoners, represented by HaMoked: medical records which have been delivered were flawed and incomplete

Dismissal of joint petition by HaMoked and additional organizations against incarceration of Palestinians in facilities within Israeli territory: The court found no grounds to change the rules it established more than two decades ago, under entirely different conditions