Protesters call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation on Monday, February 8 outside the Jerusalem courthouse where his trial is about to resume. The caption beneath the live broadcast image reads: "Prime Minister Netanyahu is about to arrive at court."

Protesters Carry “Crime Minister” Banners outside Netanyahu’s Trial

Hundreds demonstrated on Monday, February 8, outside Jerusalem’s district courthouse where far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has resumed after more than a half-year hiatus. Among the banners and signs carried by protesters were ones reading “Crime Minister,” one of the leading anti-Netanyahu organizations. The prime minister pleaded not guilty as he appeared before…

Salah Hamouri and Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, at the Fête de l’Humanité Communist daily newspaper near Paris in 2012.

Israel Sentences Salah Hamouri to Detention without Charge or Trial

An Israeli court sentenced Salah Hamouri, a human rights defender and field researcher for Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, to six months of administrative detention − imprisonment without charge or trial − on Tuesday, August 30, in what  Addameer said was “part of a systematic policy of disempowerment.” According to Addameer’s statement, the court’s initial…

Palestinians protest in front of the offices of the Red Cross in the West Bank city of Nablus, calling for immediate intervention to release prisoners from Israeli prisons, especially women and children, Nablus, West Bank, March 12, 2015.

500% Increase in Palestinians Detained without Trial in 2015

Israeli occupation authorities have issued 319 administrative detention orders for Palestinians since the beginning of 2015, a rights group said Friday, April 3, six times as many as they did the previous year. The statistics, released by the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies, suggests a massive increase in Israel’s incarceration of Palestinians without charge or trial…