Khalida Jarrar

Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar details her 20-month ordeal in an Israeli prison without charge

Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar details her 20-month ordeal in an Israeli prison without charge

""They wouldn’t allow us to stop and use the bathroom. Our only stop was the court. They’d take us out, we’d receive our sentences and then they would put us back in our cages and drive us back in the same condition." The hearings in Haifa meant another six-month extension to her administrative detention, a tactic used by Israel to incarcerate people without trial or charge, based on allegations that they might commit a future offence."

Israel Releases Palestinian Lawmaker Held for Nearly Two Years Without Trial

Israel Releases Palestinian Lawmaker Held for Nearly Two Years Without Trial

"Jarrar is a well-known figure on the Palestinian political scene and was active for many years as an advocate on behalf of prisoners’ rights and with human rights organizations. Mahmoud Hassan, Jarrar's lawyer said that he and Jarrar's family had been told in advance that the administrative detention, issued by the OC Central Command, will not be renewed unless significant new information is received."

Israel Still Holding Palestinian Lawmaker Indefinitely as Political Prisoner

Israel Still Holding Palestinian Lawmaker Indefinitely as Political Prisoner

"Ghassan Jarrar says his life is meaningless without Khalida. In his office at the children’s toys and furniture factory he owns in Beit Furik, east of Nablus, its chairs upholstered with red fake fur, the face of the grass widower lights up whenever he talks about his wife. She’s been incarcerated in an Israeli prison for 20 months, without trial, without being charged, without evidence, without anything."