Hundreds of Palestinian administrative detainees have continued boycotting Israeli courts for the 160th consecutive day Friday to demand an end to the administrative detention policy according to which they are held without charge or trial.
Last Tuesday the administrative prisoners decided to take additional protest steps to pressure Israeli jailers to respond to their demands before staging an open-ended hunger strike as a final resort.
The administrative detainees decided to organize sit-ins in prison yards and delay standing up for the evening count in all jails.
In early January the administrative detainees announced a complete boycott of all judicial procedures related to their administrative detention.
The move comes in protest against the Israeli policy of administrative detention which gives Israeli military authorities the powers to detain Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable periods of up to six months.
