Urgent Action Update: Lawmaker’s administrative detention renewed

Ofer Military Court in OPT approved the renewal of Khalida Jarrar’s administrative detention for another four months.

Israel renews, for the third time and without charge or trial, the administrative detention of Khalida Jarrar for further four months. She is a Palestinian lawmaker and prominent political figure.

Take action

Please write immediately in English, Hebrew or your own language calling on the Israeli authorities to:

• Release Khalida Jarrar and all other administrative detainees or promptly charge them with an internationally   recognizable criminal offense and try them in proceedings that adhere to international fair trial standards.
• Take immediate steps to end the practice of administrative detention.
• Not to punish prisoners and detainees for protesting their prison conditions.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 DECEMBER 2018 TO:

Minister of Defence

Avigdor Lieberman

Ministry of Defence

37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya

Tel Aviv 61909, Israel

Email: [email protected]

[email protected]

Fax: +972 3 691 6940

Salutation: Dear Minister

Commander of the IDF – West Bank

Major-General Roni Numa

GOC Central Command

Military Post 02367, Battalion 877

Israel Defence Forces, Israel

Fax: +972 2 530 5741, +972 2 530 5724

Salutation: Dear Major-General

And copies to:

Minister of Public Security

Gilad Erdan

Kiryat Hamemshala

PO Box 18182

Jerusalem 91181, Israel

Fax: +972 2 584 7872

Email: [email protected]

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. HIS EXCELLENCY MR MARK REGEV, Embassy of Israel, 2 Palace Green Kensington W8 4QB, 020 7957 9500, [email protected]

Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.