Israel can arrest any Palestinian on “secret evidence” charges off and on for months – PB/TK
Israel arrests Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh – By Patrick Strickland / May 14 2017
Israeli forces have carried out raids on homes across the occupied West Bank and detained at least 14 Palestinians on Sunday, among them a prominent intellectual and former political prisoner.
Suha Barghouti, the wife of Ahmad Qatamesh, said “a large force” of Israeli soldiers arrived at their home in the West Bank city of al-Bireh at 4:30 am local time and detained her husband.
“Until now, we don’t know what is going on or where he is,” she told Al Jazeera by telephone on Sunday morning, explaining that Israeli soldiers also searched her brother-in-law’s nearby home.
In 2013, Qatamesh, a prominent 66-year-old writer, was deemed a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International while he was in an Israeli jail.
Throughout two stints in prison, he spent more than eight years behind bars under Israel’s practice of adminstrative detention, in which Palestinians are held on “secret evidence” for renewable six-month intervals with no trial or charges
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