International Solidarity Movement -- Adeeb Abu Rahme, a leading Palestinian non-violent peace activist was arrested in the weekly Bil’in demonstration against the Apartheid Wall (see the video, Adeeb is the protester in the orange shir

On July 7, the political prisoner that has spent the longest time in prison in Europe marks 29 years since he was first imprisoned. Hailing from Zornotza (Biscay), José Mari Sagardui, "Gatza", started his imprisonment, being taken from one Spanish prison to another, even in spite of the fact that, according to the Spanish regulation, he should have been released in 2005.

Jenin / Ali Samoudi for PNN – The number of Palestinians who have spent more than 20 years in Israeli prisons has reached 106.

by Cynthia Mc Kinney - reprinted by IMEMC from freegaza.org

Radhika Sainath
The Electronic Intifada, 13 July 2009

By Lisa Hajjar*
Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Newsletter Volume 61, June 2009

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has been denied access to clients detained by the Internal Security Service (ISS) of the Government in Gaza. PCHR affirm that such measures violate Palestinian law and relevant international standards, including the detainees' right to have access to legal counsel.

Southern city's hospitality replaces by fear, aversion and loathing towards African infiltrators, with residents setting up committee to thin out their presence in area. 'The future is black,' one resident says

Ilana Curiel
YNet - 13 July 2009

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- Israel Planning Mass Deportation of Asylum Seekers, Migrant Workers
- Planned Mass Deportation in Israel will Hurt Many Asylum Seeking and Migrant Children

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
1 July 2009

Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, according to Israeli human rights groups.