Report: Quarterly Update on Palestinian Prisoners 15 October 2010–15 January 2011

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association [PDF]- CURRENT ARREST AND DETENTION STATISTICS...

Detention of Palestinian officials
On 10 December, former Minister of Prisoner Affairs Wasfi Qabha was detained at Bart’a checkpoint near Jenin. He was reported to have suffered a diabetic attack during the arrest and was transferred to Al-Khadeera hospital before being released on 17 December after a judge reviewed his medical file. Mr. Qabha was last released from Israeli prison in April 2010 after spending nearly three years in jail...

CHILD PRISONERS
As of 31 December, there were 209 Palestinian children under the age of 18 in Israeli detention, including 29 under the age of 16. At least 342 children have been arrested thus far in 2010, including at least 81 between 30 September and 31 December. During the reporting period, Addameer represented 46 children...

HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND ANNEXATION WALL-RELATED ARRESTS
As of 15 January, there were at least 22 Palestinian human rights defenders held in Israeli custody from the occupied West Bank villages of Bil’in, Ni’lin, Silwan and Jayyous. There are currently 7 activists from Silwan in prison; 2 from Bil’in; 5 from Ni’lin; and 8 from Jayyous...

Blogger arrested
On 31 October, Walid Hasayin, a Palestinian blogger, was arrested by the PA in the West Bank on suspicion of posting messages on the Internet and writing blogs that criticized Islam and other religions and in which he called himself god...

West Bank PA prisoners on hunger strike released
In late November 2010, six Hamas-affiliated Palestinians held by the West Bank PA in Jericho Prison without charges started a hunger strike to protest their continued imprisonment despite standing orders from the Palestinian High Court of Justice ordering their release...Read more [PDF]