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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israeli Occupation Authorities Renew
Three Months Administrative Detention Order against Palestinian Lawyer
and Human Rights Defender Salah Hammouri</h1>
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<p>06-06-2022
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<div><p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span>On the morning of his expected release from Ofer prison, Israeli occupation authorities notified <a href="https://justiceforsalah.net/">Salah Hammouri</a>,
Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender, of a three-month
administrative detention renewal order against him. Although the Israeli
military commander signed the renewal order against Salah on 2 June
2022, Salah and his legal counsel were only notified moments before his
expected release. Salah's administrative detention, without charge or
trial, based on "secret information" is still subject to indefinite
renewals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span>Salah Hammouri was arrested <a href="https://www.addameer.org/index.php/news/4716">on 7 March 2022</a>,
during an Israeli occupation forces' dawn raiding of his home in Kufr
Aqab, north of Jerusalem. Later, on 10 March 2022, the Israeli military
commander issued the first administrative detention order against Salah
for three months, to end on 6 June 2022. More than 500 </span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Palestinian administrative detainees are currently undertaking a <a href="https://www.addameer.org/news/4662">collective boycott of Israeli military courts</a> to protest the Israeli occupation's illegal systematic and arbitrary practice of administrative detention.</span></span></span> <span lang="EN"><span><span>Salah
joins the boycott, refusing to participate in the military proceedings
related to his administrative detention and requesting his legal counsel
do the same.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>Extension of the administrative detention period severely increases the psychological suffering of </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>Palestinian </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>detainee</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>s</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>.</span></span></span></span></span> <span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>Once detainee</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>s</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span> begin </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>to think</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span> that </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>they</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span> will soon be released, the Israeli </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>occupation </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>authorities often renew the detention order</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span> without</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span> any charges.</span></span></span></span></span> <span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span><a href="https://www.addameer.org/index.php/publications/induced-desperation-psychological-torture-administrative-detention">Several studies</a> </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>on the effects of administrative detention showed the element of unpredictability</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>, loss of control, and the </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>absence of </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>a </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>specific end date are all contributing factors to causing acute pressure on detainee</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>s and their families</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span> that </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>force them</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span> to live in a </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>"</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>permanent state of waiting</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span><span><span>."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>The arbitrary arrest and detention of Salah Hammouri are made more urgent and exceptional in light of the <a href="https://www.addameer.org/index.php/news/4687">Israeli Minister of Interior's unlawful decision</a>,
on 18 October 2021, to revoke his permanent residency status in
Jerusalem based on a "breach of allegiance to the State of Israel." The
initiation of his residency revocation under Amendment No. 30 to the
Entry into Israel Law of 1952 entails profound violations of
international law and puts him at imminent risk of forced deportation</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Since the revocation,
Salah Hammouri's defense counsel submitted an appeal against the
residency revocation, along with a petition to suspend the procedures
associated with the residency revocation—most prominently freedom of
movement beyond the </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span>neighborhood</span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span> of Kufur Aqab, the travel ban, and halting of residency social security and health insurance benefits.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><a href="http://addameer.org/prisoner/2992">Salah Hammouri</a>,
36 years old, is a Palestinian-French Jerusalemite, long-time human
rights defender (HRD), a lawyer with Addameer Prisoner Support and Human
Rights Association, and a former political prisoner. Salah has been <a href="http://addameer.org/news/4790">the subject of Israeli persecution</a>
since he was 15 years old when he sustained a bullet injury in 2000. He
was first arrested at the age of 16 and has since then been facing
continuous judicial and administrative harassment by the Israeli
occupation authorities, including six periods of imprisonment and <a href="https://www.fidh.org/en/issues/human-rights-defenders/israel-opt-arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-of-mr-salah">arbitrary arrests</a>, several travel bans, excessive bail and fines, house arrests,</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span> and </span></span></span><span lang="EN"><span><span><a href="https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/israel-palestinian-territories/news/2018/article/israel-release-of-salah-hamouri-30-09-18">separation from his family</a>, <a href="http://addameer.org/news/4743">surveillance and spyware attack</a></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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