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Current Urgent Appeal

Request release of Hana Al-Shalabi from Israeli administrative detention
Posted on: Sunday, August 07, 2011

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URGENT APPEAL: Ref: UA 09/ 11.

NAME: Hana Al-Shalabi

VIOLATIONS: Palestinian female prisoner held without charge or trial for two years by Israel

Since 1967, more than 700,000 Palestinians have been arrested and detained in Israeli prisons and detention centres. Approximately 10,000 were women. Today 34 women remain in Israeli prisons in substandard conditions that violate International Law and International Humanitarian Law.

Hana Al-Shalabi, from Jenin, was kidnapped and put into administrative detention in 2009. She has now been held in Hasharon Prison in Israel for two years without know why she has been detained.

Please press the TAKE ACTIONBOX to send letter of protest toDr. YAKIN ERTURK, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, H.E.RIYAD H MANSOUR, Ambassador, Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine and H.E. RON PROSOR, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations .

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For further information

http://www.addameer.org/index_eng.html

http://www.un.org/depts/dpa/qpal/docs/2011%20Vienna/p1%20fabrizia%20falcione.pdf

http://www.unwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Booklet-UN-Women-Suspended-Lives-en-ar.pdf

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/palestinian-women-prisoners-video/

http://avoicefrompalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/on-international-women%E2%80%99s-day-remember-palestinian-female-prisoners/

Appeal

Dr. YAKIN ERTURK,

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women

Your Excellency

I appeal to you to demand that the government of Israel immediately and unconditionally releases Hana Al-Shalabi from Jenin who was kidnapped and put into administrative detention in 2009. She has been held in Hasharon Prison in Israel for two years without charge or trial and without knowing the reason for her detention.

Her trial has been repeatedly delayed without legal justification and she has been denied contact with her family since her incarceration.

The practice of administrative detention has been condemned by prisoner rights groups around the world.

The UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE (United Nations Office at Vienna, 7 and 8 March 2011) addressed The urgency of addressing the plight of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention facilities. The paper is a searing indictment of Israeli violations of its obligations to prisoners under International Law and International Humanitarian Law. The conditions under which Palestinian women are detained are illegal and inhumane.

At a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting, sixty five countries voted in favour of a resolution condemning the deteriorating health of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.

It is of great concern that PM Netanyahu has recently intensified the punishments and suppression of Palestinian prisoners.

I urge you to use your good offices to further demand from the Government of Israel prompt implementation of international treaties and accords that protect rights and health conditions of prisoners in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel.

Sincerely

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