Judge Orders Professor To Remain In Prison Without Charge

by Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians
8 February 2012

Press Release

The Israel military court has extended administrative detention for two months in addition to three months already detained for civil rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a lecturer at An-Najah National University and the Cultural Coordinator for the Tanweer Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment Forum, currently detained in Ofer Prison near Ramallah.

Yousef Abdul Haq had been arrested 7/11/2011 in his home at two o’clock in the morning suffering from illness requiring medicine constantly forcing his transfer to a hospital immediately after his arrest at Ramle. He was sentenced to two months in administrative detention immediately.

This arbitrary administrative detention is legally incompatible with the most basic international standards of human rights, because it is without any specific charge against the prisoner, it also depends on the military file and secret evidence which cannot be seen by the detainee or defense lawyers; this file is prepared by the Israel intelligence service collecting intelligence information illegally.

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