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href="http://samidoun.net/2016/01/palestinian-parliamentarians-arrested-imprisoned-without-charge-or-trial/"
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parliamentarians arrested, imprisoned without charge or trial</a></big></h2>
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by <a href="http://samidoun.net/?author=1"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2; color: #888
!important;">samidoun January 29, 2016</a> </span>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Israeli occupation forces
issued a four-month administrative detention order against <a
style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2;"
href="http://www.imemc.org/article/74765" target="_blank">Hatem
Qufeisha</a>, 56, Palestinian parliamentarian, only five days
after arresting him, invading his home in Al-Khalil on 24 January.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">He is held in Ofer prison,
with no charge or trial. He has spent over 143 months in
administrative detention in the past and has been repeatedly
imprisoned.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Meanwhile, on 28 January,
Israeli occupation forces arrested and imprisoned Palestinian
parliamentarian <a style="text-decoration: underline; color:
#2585B2;" href="https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770002"
target="_blank">Mohammed Abu Teir</a> - and at least 22 other
Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem - in
early-morning raids.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Abu Teir has spent 32 years
in Israeli prison under numerous arrests; he is a Palestinian
Jerusalemite whose residency was stripped on 8 October 2010 by the
Israeli occupation, forced into the West Nank from his home city,
on the basis of "betrayal of loyalty to Israel" because he ran in
the Palestinian Legislative Council elections on the Change and
Reform Slate, associated with the Hamas movement.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">He was last released in July
2015 after 25 months in administrative detention.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Abu Teir and Qufeisha join
five more imprisoned members of the Palestinian Legislative
Council: prominent leftist, feminist and prisoner advocate <a
style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2;"
href="http://samidoun.net/khalidajarrar" target="_blank">Khalida
Jarrar</a>, serving 15 months in Israeli prison; Palestinian
political leader and general secretary of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine <a style="text-decoration: underline;
color: #2585B2;" href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org"
target="_blank">Ahmad Sa'adat</a>, serving 30 years in Israeli
occupation prisons; Palestinian political leader and member of the
Fateh Central Council, <a style="text-decoration: underline;
color: #2585B2;"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/11/israeli-occupation-cause-of-palestine-conflict-marwan-barghouti"
target="_blank">Marwan Barghouti</a>, serving five life
sentences; <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #2585B2;"
href="http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=73699"
target="_blank">Mohammed Jamal Natsheh</a> of al-Khalil, of the
Change and Reform Bloc, held in administrative detention without
charge or trial since March 2013; and <a style="text-decoration:
underline; color: #2585B2;"
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/21796-israel-arrests-hamas-official-in-west-bank"
target="_blank">Hassan Yousef </a>of Beitunia, a senior Hamas
leader and member of the PLC, held in administrative detention
without charge or trial since 20 October 2015.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Dozens of members of the
Palestinian Legislative Council have been imprisoned by the
Israeli occupation, many serving lengthy periods held in
administrative detention without charge or trial. The
Inter-Parliamentary Union, a global alliance of parliamentarians,
has called for the freedom of imprisoned Palestinian
parliamentarians.</p>
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