The imprisonment of the human rights defensor has been extended by three months, without any charge being notified to him, under the system of administrative detention, an arbitrary regime, renewable indefinitely.
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There was no judgment this time, not even a passage to court. Sunday, June 5, the administrative detention of Salah Hamouri, a 37-year-old Franco-Palestinian lawyer in prison since March 7, was extended by three months. The Israeli authorities have sent the order directly to his lawyer. The accused still ignores what is criticized for him; His file is secret. In all, given his previous administrative detentions, especially in 2018, Salah Hamouri has already spent almost two years in prison under this regime.
This system allows Israel to incarcerate accused without having access to their file, for periods of three to six months, renewable indefinitely. Nothing says that Salah Hamouri will be free on September 5. The lawyer joined the other Palestinian administrative prisoners who, since the beginning of the year, protest against this arbitrary regime. They boycott the military courts supposed to renew periods of incarceration.
“The problem of this mode of detention is that we cannot project ourselves. Unlike a normal detainee, we have no end of pain, explains his wife, Elsa Lefort , prohibited from entry into the territory in Israel and in the Palestinian territories occupied since 2016. It is particularly stressful to be in this vagueness: the vagueness on the dates of its release and the vagueness on the reasons for its imprisonment. ” She has not had any contact with her husband since March 7, not even a phone call, and has not seen her since the birth of their daughter, thirteen months.
Accused of belonging to the FPLP
Salah Hamouri had already been imprisoned between 2005 and 2011, to have, according to Israeli justice, participated in a plot aimed at assassinating an Israeli religious and political leader. Even if no concrete element appeared in the accusation file, the young man then had, as many Palestinians do, agreed to plead guilty against a reduction in sentence. The human rights activist is also under a procedure for the revocation of his residence in Jerusalem. This precarious status, under which lives the vast majority of Palestinians in the Holy City, failing to be citizens, can be removed by Israel at any time.
The Hebrew state believes that the lawyer is guilty of “serious violation of most of his commitment as an Israeli resident”. He accuses him in particular of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FPLP), a classified organization terrorist by the European Union and Israel – which the interested party denies. A hearing is fixed at the Supreme Court, as a last resort, on February 6, 2023. Salah Hamouri fears that his current detention is a way to “accelerate her expulsion from Palestine”, specifies Elsa Lefort, who stresses that her husband was already under The blow of many movement restrictions and could no longer exercise his profession, failing to be authorized to enter the courts and prisons. “It is also a way of making it suffer,” she said.
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