Articles for Palestine

On 26 November 2015, Mohammed Mahdi Saleh Suleiman − a Palestinian teenager arrested on 15 March 2013, tortured and arbitrarily detained for more than two years awaiting trial − was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and to pay fine of 30,000 Shekel by the Salem Military Court for, among several other charges, "throwing stones." Mohamed is one of the five Palestinian boys from Hares – the 'Hares Boys' case – accused of "attempted murder" by way of throwing stones who have been detained since their arr

On 28 October 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) held a special session, which convened together Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR) to address the current situation of increased violence and human rights violations in t

Alkarama welcomes the release, on 22 September 2015, of Palestinian teenager, Amer Bajawi, who had been sentenced by an Israeli military court for "throwing stones" two months earlier.

On 18 September 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas Aguilar, regarding the case of Ali Mustafa Ahmad Hanoon, a blind Palestinian Imam held in administrative detention since his arrest in May 2014.

On 3 August 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Amer Bajawi, a Palestinian teenager arrested on 23 May 2015 and sentenced to four months of imprisonment by a military court for "throwing stones." The case of Amer fits into a broader pattern of judicial harassment of Palestinian

On 7 July 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Mohammed Mahdi Saleh Suleiman, a Palestinian teenager arrested on 15 March 2013 for "throwing stones" and arbitrarily detained pending trial to this day.

On 19 June 2015, Alkarama submitted a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Ali Mustafa Ahmad Hanoon, a blind Palestinian Imam and father unlawfully detained since his arrest in the West Bank by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) a month earlier.

The facts

On 29 June 2015, the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict (CoI on Gaza) presented to the Human Rights Council (HRC) the conclusions of its inquiry into violations of International Humanitarian Law (

Geneva, 17 March 2015

On 18 December 2014, less than a week after Layla and Tarek Issawi's return from Geneva where they had gone to receive the 2014 Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders on behalf of their daughter, Shireen, still detained by Israel, their youngest son, Shadi, a law student, was re-arrested by the Israeli forces at a checkpoint. His arrest is part of a broad campaign of reprisals against the Issawi family.