500 Palestinian administrative detainees continue to boycott the Israeli courts for the 115th day in a row on Monday in protest against Israel’s illegal policy of administrative detention according to which they are held without charge or trial.
Since the start of the year the administrative detainees started refusing to show up for their court sessions. The boycott includes the initial hearings to uphold the administrative detention order as well as appeal hearings and later sessions at the Supreme Court.
Under the banner “Our decision is freedom … no to administrative detention” administrative detainees said in a statement their move comes as a continuation of long-standing Palestinian efforts “to put an end to the unjust administrative detention practiced against our people by the occupation forces”.
Israeli authorities issued 540 administrative detention orders since the start of the year and more than 140 administrative detention orders since the start of April including 50 orders against new detainees.
