Monthly Newsletter- January 2022

Since January 1st, 500 Palestinian administrative detainees have been boycotting Israeli military courts under the campaign "Our Decision is Freedom ... No to Administrative Detention". This includes the initial judicial review to uphold the detention order, as well as appeals and later sessions at the High Court. That means both the detainee and their lawyer are refusing to attend court sessions.

Now, the Palestinian administrative detainees in Ofer, Megiddo, and Naqab prisons are escalating their boycott, increasingly taking collective and coordinated actions like refusing meals or medicine for the day or the week. Their boycott highlights the struggle of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners imprisoned by the Israeli military judicial system, which sustains Israel's violent apartheid regime.