Held Without Charge: Webinar
Event Date: 21st January 2025
Location: Internet 6pm
Tuesday 21st January, 6pm (UK)At 4:00am on Saturday the 6th April 2024, Layan Nasir was taken away at gunpoint from her parents’ home in the West Bank town of Birzeit, after 15 soldiers burst into her house to arrest her.She was held without charge on administrative detention in Damon women’s prison until her release shortly before Christmas. Since 7th October 2023, Israel has arrested or detained over 14,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem and the West Bank and countless more from Gaza.
Currently, over 3,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Jerusalem are held without charge on rolling administrative detention. Many of these have been detained for posts on social media or at ‘flying’ Israeli checkpoints.
Layan’s case gained international attention, including condemnation by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as she was the only Palestinian Christian woman in Israeli detention.
Even before 7th October 2023, Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he wanted harsher conditions for Palestinian prisoners. That has become a reality, exacerbated by overcrowding.
Tala Nasir is a human rights lawyer at Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. She holds a master’s degree in law from Birzeit University.Layan and Tala Masir, a lawyer at Addammeer Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, will join us to discuss Layan’s experience and that of thousands of other Palestinians in the Israeli judicial system.REGISTER NOW
They will discuss the appalling conditions in Israeli jails and the widespread hunger, physical, sexual and psychological abuse of Palestinian prisoners — including children, as well as Tala’s work at Addameer. Please join us.
