Egyptian authorities have subjected inmates on death row at Badr prison, which the regime has held up as a model of humane treatment of prisoners, to increasing levels of torture and abuse in recent weeks, [ More … ]
An Egyptian young man has died inside the al Ahram Police Station in Giza, Greater Cairo, in mysterious circumstances. The family of Tarek Mohamed Al-Gabri was told that he had died in the police station [ More … ]
Hamas chief in Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar said ‘there is a possibility for an initiative to move forward with the file’ of exchanging prisoners. Israeli officials and Palestinian leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) [ More … ]
The Hamas movement announced Friday night that former prisoner 35-year-old Mazen Fuqahaa was assassinated by unidentified assailants in southern Gaza City, accusing Israel of carrying out the targeted killing. Unknown assailants opened fire at Fuqahaa [ More … ]
Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Nasser Alaqma entered the 22nd day of hunger strike on Saturday that he launched in protest of his administrative detention — Israel’s widely condemned policy of internment without charge or trial, according [ More … ]
Prominent Palestinian prisoner Samer al-Issawi and Munther Sunober have been on hunger strike for four days at the Israeli Nafha jail, the PA committee for prisoners’ affairs said Friday morning. Issawi, from occupied Jerusalem, and [ More … ]
Palestinian prisoner Malik Al-Qadi, who ended his 70-day hunger strike earlier this week in protest of being held by Israel in administrative detention, will be transferred to a Palestinian hospital on Saturday, the Palestinian Committee [ More … ]
Palestinian Prisoner Society revealed on Sunday that the Palestinian hunger striking captive Walid Masalmeh, 41, from Bait Awwa town in al-Khalil, has been suffering fatigue and severe weakness since day 28 of starting hunger strike, [ More … ]
An Israeli court Friday rejected a request by hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayid to remove handcuffs which have strapped him to a hospital bed in Israel’s Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon since last month when he [ More … ]
The health of the Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed continued to deteriorate on Saturday, as he entered the 25th day of a hunger strike he began in protest of being placed in administrative detention by Israel [ More … ]
The parents of Israeli captive officer Shaul Aaron on Friday appealed to premier Benjamin Netanyahu to demand Turkey, which has strong ties with the Hamas Movement, to have their son released as a condition for [ More … ]
Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander and seriously injured four other Palestinian teens early Tuesday morning west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, after Palestinian youth nearby threw stones and [ More … ]
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