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Palestinian women chant slogans during a rally in Gaza City in support of more than a thousand prisoners who are on an open-ended hunger strike in Israeli jails on April 30, 2012.
Wednesday, May. 02, 2012

Open quoteDetainees must be able to effectively challenge administrative detention orders. Close quote

  • ROBERT FALK,
  • U.N. Special Rapporteur, on a practice that allows Israeli authorities to hold prisoners without charge or trial that has prompted mass hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in recent months
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