Israel extends detention of Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri
Franco-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hamouri, with his father during his first release from an Israeli prison, in the village of Dahyat al-Barid, in the occupied West Bank, September 30, 2018. © AFP
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The Franco-Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hamouri remains in prison, after Israel's decision to extend his sentence, on the night of Sunday June 5 to Monday June 6.
While this lawyer had been sentenced last March to three months of administrative detention, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs had asked at the end of April for the release of Salah Hamouri, "
so that he can lead a normal life in Jerusalem, where he was born and where he resides
.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Sami Boukhelifa
Without trial, without charge,
the detention of Salah Hamouri in Israel
is based on a secret file.
Neither he nor even his lawyers can consult him, as stipulated by the “
administrative detention
”.
This controversial measure allows the Jewish state's military justice system to incarcerate suspects without formal charges.
If its maximum duration is six months, it is renewable indefinitely.
"
Together, some Palestinians have spent up to 15
years behind bars
," denounced the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, contacted by RFI.
It is a clear violation of international law
,” regrets this civil organization for the defense of Palestinian detainees imprisoned in Israel.
'
Impelling security reasons
'
In fact, international law authorizes the use of administrative detention if it is justified by “
imperative reasons of security
”.
But “
the Jewish state uses it in an abusive way
,” explains the president of the Palestinian prisoners' club.
Salah Hamouri, 37, is
considered by the Israeli authorities
to be a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): it is a Marxist organization, classified as "
terrorist
" by the Jewish State and the Union European.
The human rights activist had previously been imprisoned between 2005 and 2011 in Israel for participating in the attempted assassination of an Israeli religious and political leader.
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