195 administrative detention orders were issued by the Israeli occupation authority against Palestinian citizens during last March.
According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs 107 of those administrative detention orders were issued for the first time against prisoners and the rest were extensions to previous orders against 88 prisoners who have spent months or years in jail with no guilt.
In early January the administrative detainees announced a complete boycott of all judicial procedures related to their detention in protest at the Israeli policy of administrative detention.
Those detainees including lawmakers received different administrative prison terms ranging between three to six months.
Administrative detention is incarceration without trial or charge and is widely used by Israel against the Palestinians solely at the pretext that a person plans to commit a future offense. It has no time limit and is based on alleged secret files.
