Muslim Legal Fund of America has been working hard to get the Holy Land Foundation clemency petition in front of President Obama, and it is their understanding that Obama is currently reviewing it. The clemency petition is asking Obama to commute, or reduce, their sentences to “time served” so they can be released from prison. MLFA […]

An Israeli court in Jerusalem today sentenced two 13-year-old Palestinian boys from occupied East Jerusalem to two years in an Israeli juvenile detention centre after the two were charged with attempted murder and possession of knives. Muhammad Mahmoud, a lawyer for the defence, told Ma’an that Shadi Anwar Farah and Ahmad Raed Zatari were sentenced […]

Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi, 59 has been imprisoned for 36 years in Israeli jails, and he is the longest-held Palestinian political prisoner. Today, on the basis of so-called “secret evidence,” he is threatened with the re-imposition of life imprisonment with no charges and no legitimate trial. Along with over 1,000 fellow prisoners, he was released […]

Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association released a documentary short film produced by Odeh Film titled “Precarious Childhood: Arrests of Jerusalemite Children.” The video depicts the lives of several Jerusalemite families whose children are taken by force, arrested and imprisoned by Israel. The children narrate their experiences of arrest, interrogation, and treatment by Israeli […]

Cold weather and heavy rain are causing “catastrophic conditions” inside the cells in which Palestinians are being held by Israel in Etzion Prison, the Palestinian Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs Commission reported on Thursday. Rainwater, it is alleged, has flooded the cells, soaking prisoners’ bedding and clothing. Lawyer Hussain Al-Sheikh toured the prison recently on behalf […]

The Israeli magistrate’s court in Jerusalem on Sunday sentenced a 19-year-old Palestinian girl to 16 years in prison, after she was accused of attempting to stab an Israeli settler in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem in Oct. 2015.  Members of Shurouq Dwayyat’s family told Ma’an that the sentence also included a fine of […]

The Israeli Ofer military court sentenced wounded Palestinian child prisoner Natalie Shokha, 15, to one and a half years in Israeli prison on Monday, 19 December. Natalie, from the village of Rammun near Ramallah, was shot by occupation soldiers on 28 April with a live bullet in her back and chest. She and another minor […]

On Friday, Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Fara will reach their 91st day on hunger strike against their “administrative detention” without charge or trial by Israel. On Saturday, Palestinian doctor Mohammed Jadallah, who had visited the two in Assaf Harofeh hospita, said in a report that the coming hours were critical for the lives of […]

Today, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade announced that a grand jury she had empaneled returned a new, superseding indictment against Rasmea Odeh for unlawful procurement of naturalization. This new indictment, just four weeks before her retrial, is a vicious attack by prosecutors desperate after a series of setbacks in their case against the Chicago-based Palestinian American […]

The Israeli government has decided to hand over the bodies of seven Palestinians back to their families to bury them after holding their bodies for months. The decision came following a petition made by Al-Quds human rights organization based in Jerusalem to the Supreme Israeli Court. Ameen Albayed of the Committee to Regain the Bodies […]