Palestinian leftist legislator, feminist, and prisoners’ advocate Khalida Jarrar was released after 14 months in Israeli prison on Friday, 3 June, where she was met by a crowd of supporters at the Jubara checkpoint near Tulkarem. Jarrar will hold open receptions tonight, 4 June and tomorrow, 5 June, at the Palestinian Legislative Council offices, celebrating […]

Palestinian prisoner and former hunger striker Sami Janazrah has joined fellow administrative detainee and professor Imad Barghouthi – facing charges for so-called Facebook “incitement” following international campaigns to end their administrative detention without charge or trial. Despite earlier reports that charges of “incitement” against Janazrah had been denied, the military prosecution is now charging Janazrah […]

On Thursday, 26 May, prison contractor and massive global security corporation G4S will convene its Annual General Meeting of shareholders in London. The British-Danish corporation has been hit by the rising international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions, highlighting its role in profiting from Israeli imprisonment, occupation and siege of Palestinians, as well as in […]

Mohammed Al-Qeeq, the 33-year-old Palestinian journalist who waged a 94-day hunger strike while in Israeli custody was finally released last week. His message to his fellow prisoners is: stand up to Israel’s unjust detention policies. In an interview with Anadolu Agency he referred to his imprisonment as, “a bitter experience, but it taught me to […]

By Anees Bargouthi HEBRON, Palestine In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Mohammed al-Qeeq, a 33-year-old Palestinian journalist who waged a 94-day hunger strike while in Israeli custody — and who was finally released last week — called on his fellow prisoners to stand up to Israel’s unjust detention policies. “It’s been a bitter experience, […]

3000 Nights opens on a dark, pouring night where we first see the main character, Layal. The film’s hauntingly beautiful and crisp cinematography shines through its immediate construction of the prison’s cruel atmosphere and the air of hostility between the inmates and the prison guards. Layal is in a nightgown, blindfolded, and barefoot when she […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says a Palestinian prisoner who ended a 94-day hunger strike in February has been released to his home in the West Bank. It says Mohammed al-Qeq was freed on Thursday. Al-Qeq went on hunger strike in November to win release from administrative detention, a practice that can […]

Muhammad alQeeq , the journalist who went on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention ,reunited with his wife Fayhaa who worked with us on the Prisoners Diaries.  

Hebron, Occupied West Bank –  In al-Fuwwar refugee camp south of Hebron, Palestinians trickled into a tent set up more than 70 days ago by camp residents when Sami al-Janazreh, 43, launched a hunger strike against his detention and mistreatment in Israeli prison. Visitors discussed the [hunger] strike inside the makeshift tent whose walls are […]

As these words were being written, three Palestinian prisoners were on hunger strike in protest against their imprisonment without trial, a practice cloaked by the anodyne sounding term “administrative detention”. Sami Janazra was on his 69th day and his health has sharply deteriorated, Adeeb Mafarja was on his 38th day, and Fuad Assi was on […]