Israel extends administrative detention for circus performer

posted on: Jun 19, 2016

BY NANDINI MAJUMDAR

The Wire
Israel has been holding a Palestinian circus performer without charge or trial since December 2015 and has decided to renew his detention for another six months.

Mohammad Abu Sakha, 23, was on his way to the Palestinian Circus School in Birzeit, where he teaches, when he was arrested. Israel’s military court claims that Abu Sakha was involved in “illegal activities” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a political party with an armed wing that Israel has banned. Abu Sakha has spent six months behind bars without being charged.

International law permits the use of administrative detention only in exceptional, security-related cases. There are more than 600 Palestinians in Israeli prisons on administrative detention.

Source: thewire.in