Administrative detention is an official Israeli policy, codified into law, whereby Palestinians can be arrested without a charge for so-called “security reasons.”  Detainees are held without trial and without being told about the evidence against them.  In most cases, they are simply informed that there is ‘secret evidence’ which neither they nor their lawyer can see. More

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