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Israeli occupation authorities have recently issued 47 administrative detention orders against Palestinian prisoners, including a member of parliament, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) reported on yesterday.
Prominent Hamas leader Hassan Yousef from the outskirts of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah was the only MP to be placed under administrative detention.
According to the PPC, Yousef, who was kidnapped from his house after it was searched and damaged in February 2015, spent a total of more than 18 years in the Israeli jails.
Thirteen administrative detention orders were issued against prisoners who were arrested for the first time, the PPC revealed.
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Administrative detention is the jailing without charge or trial of prisoners for renewable periods of up to six months.
Rights groups say that there are more than 6,500 Palestinian prisoners inside 22 Israeli prisons, including 56 females, 350 minors, 12 MPs and about 500 who are being held under administrative detention.
