Summary
Amendment No. 43 (2012) to the Prisons Ordinance, passed 14 May 2012, allowing the Israel Prison Service Director to restrict the number of lawyers able to visit a prisoner or group of prisoners, which Adalah’s Discriminatory Laws Database presents in a Description-only entry (Discriminatory Laws Database, lines 1341-1371).
Details
- The Director’s restriction runs for three months, extendable by a further three months with the Attorney General’s approval (lines 1353-1357).
- A district court may extend the prohibition for up to six months at a time, without examination of any evidence against the prisoner or group (line 1358).
Related pages
Discriminatory Laws Database, Adalah, Prisons Ordinance Amendment No. 40 — meetings with lawyers, 2011