Administrative detention is a controversial measure allowing Israel to incarcerate suspects without formal accusation. It had to end or be renewed on June 6, and is thus renewed until September 5.
Le Monde with AFP
The Israeli authorities renewed on Sunday, June 5 to Monday, June 6, the detention of the Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri for three other months. His administrative detention, which was to end or be renewed on June 6, is thus renewed until September 5, according to the documents of the military justice transmitted to its lawyers and consulted by the France-Presse agency.
m. Hamouri, 37 years old, was sentenced in March to three months of administrative detention – a controversial measure allowing Israel to incarcerate suspects without formal accusation – by Israeli military justice, who considers him as a member of the Popular Front Liberation of Palestine (FPLP), what he denies.
The FPLP is a Marxist organization considered “terrorist” by the Hebrew State and the European Union. The Israeli authorities accuse Palestinian NGOs, such as Addameer, for which Mr. Hamouri works, of links with the FPLP, which they also deny.
At the end of April, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs had hoped that Salah Hamouri “be released and that he could lead a normal life to Jerusalem, where he was born and where he resides, and that his wife and children get the right to go there to find him “.
hacked by the Pegasus software
This activist for the rights of Palestinians had been imprisoned in Israel between 2005 and 2011 for participation in the assassination attempt by Ovadia Yossef, former Grand Rabbi of Israel and founder of the Shass Ultraorthodox Party, before being released 2011, shortly before the end of his sentence, as part of an exchange of prisoners who allowed the release of the Franco-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Since last November, human rights organizations had claimed that his mobile phone, as well as that of several other Palestinian activists, had been hacked by the Israeli spy software Pegasus of the company NSO Group.
In the process, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), the League for Human Rights (LDH) and Mr. Hamouri filed a complaint in April before the Prosecutor of the Republic of the Tribunal judicial of Paris against NSO Group to “have illegally infiltrated” his laptop.
stress that Mr. Hamouri has French nationality and that his phone had been under surveillance by Pegasus while he was in France, these organizations consider the competent French justice to judge this sensitive affair in relations between Israel and France.