Fobzu and UCU present EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION The growing attack on Palestinian students: Education and arbitrary detention under military occupation with Aleisha Ebrahimi Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and Associate Lecturer in Law at…
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows Israeli military authorities to detain prisoners for indefinite periods on no charge and without trial or access to the evidence against them. It has been used by Israel since 1967 to repress opposition…
Highlighting the systematic targeting of Palestinian university students for prolonged arbitrary military detention by Israel’s military authorities London and Ramallah, 24 January 2021 – On UNESCO’S International Day of Education that celebrates the role of education for peace and…
This month UK based charity Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) launched a new campaign to tackle the growing number of Palestinian students arbitrarily arrested and detained by Israeli military forces, which has risen dramatically since August 2019, according to…
On Saturday, the Israeli army fired tear gas at scores of students marching to Ofer prison, west of Ramallah. This was one of a series of demonstrations organised by Birzeit University students over recent weeks in solidarity with political prisoners…
