Summary
Amendment No. 40 (2011) to the Prisons Ordinance allowing the Israel Prison Service to bar a security prisoner’s meetings with lawyers on suspicion of information transfer to a terror organization, for periods far longer than before, which Adalah’s Discriminatory Laws Database presents as targeting security prisoners, who are overwhelmingly Palestinians, and their generally Palestinian lawyers, in a Description-only entry (Discriminatory Laws Database, lines 1372-1397).
Details
- The periods under the amendment: an IPS prohibition of 96 hours (previously 24), extendable to 14 days with the state prosecutor’s approval (previously 5); a district court may extend to six months (previously 21 days) up to a maximum of one year (previously three months); and the Supreme Court may extend for unlimited periods after one year (previously Supreme Court supervision was required after three months) (lines 1384-1388).
- As of May 2012 there were over 4,600 Palestinian political prisoners held as “security prisoners”, in the entry’s figures (line 1384).
Related pages
Discriminatory Laws Database, Adalah, Israeli Supreme Court, Prisons Ordinance Amendment No. 43 — prisoner-attorney meetings, 2012