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        <h1 class="reader-title">Gag Order Renewed: Ban on Addameer from
          publishing any information on several detainees under
          interrogation</h1>
        October 11, 2019<br>
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        The Israeli occupation authorities renewed a gag order on the
        cases of several detainees under interrogation for another
        month. The renewed gag order is until 10 November 2019. 
        Yesterday, 10 October 2019, the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem
        approved the Israeli intelligence unit’s petition to renew the
        gag order for the entire requested period, banning the
        publication of any details regarding the detainees’ cases. The
        hearing was only held with one party (the Israeli intelligence
        unit) and barred the detainees’ legal representatives, denying
        them from the basic right to repeal the gag order. It should be
        noted that the defense team was also excluded from court
        proceedings in the initial gag order hearing on 10 September
        2019, which put in place a one-month gag order that expired on
        10 October 2019. Despite the gag order, Israeli media and the
        Israeli intelligence department have continuously published
        information to the public about the cases. This inconsistent
        enforcement of the gag order, in which Israeli sources have
        exercised freedom to publish, can only be understood as a way to
        influence public opinion, particularly as the detainees have yet
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                                        <p>Addameer expresses serious
                                          concern for the well-being and
                                          health of the detainees
                                          mentioned in the gag order,
                                          some of whom have been
                                          detained since late August, as
                                          many have also been banned
                                          from counsel with their
                                          lawyers. For the detainees
                                          Addameer has been allowed to
                                          visit, we have documented
                                          severe instances of physical
                                          torture and ill-treatment
                                          throughout their detention and
                                          interrogation. Addameer is
                                          concerned of the widespread
                                          torture of all of the
                                          detainees under the gag order.
                                          Furthermore, the ban of
                                          lawyer’s visits and counsel
                                          for those detainees is yet
                                          another instance of the
                                          systematic violations of the
                                          right to a fair trial as
                                          enshrined under international
                                          law.</p>
                                        <p>Addameer emphasizes that the
                                          gag order is an attempt to
                                          cover up grave human rights
                                          violations inflicted on
                                          Palestinian prisoners by their
                                          interrogators and also on the
                                          prisoner’s family members
                                          since they have been used as a
                                          tool to pressure the prisoners
                                          during this period.
                                          Furthermore, the gag order is
                                          a violation of the basic
                                          rights of the prisoner, their
                                          family and their lawyer in
                                          having access to information.</p>
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