Without hearing, IDF orders Palestinian lawmaker's 6-month detention

Palestinian officials question timing of arrest of Khalida Jarrar, part of a group monitoring ties to ICC in The Hague, after PA joined the court last week.

Israel Defense Forces Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Roni Numa has ordered the six-month administrative detention of Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian parliament. She was arrested last Thursday at home in the town of El Bireh, near Ramallah. Numa signed the order without citing any formal charges against Jarrar and without any hearing.

Jarrar’s lawyer, Mahmoud Hassan, told Haaretz that the order was signed on the day of her arrest, April 2, implying that it was prepared in advance. She will be brought before a military judge at the Ofer base on Wednesday, according to routine procedures. Her lawyers will ask for the detention period to be detained.

The Israeli defense establishment claims that Jarrar, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was arrested for violating travel restrictions imposed on her last August that permitted her to remain only in the Jericho area. According to her lawyers, she was questioned at Ofer after her arrest, and then transferred to Hasharon prison.

According to Kaddoura Fares, head of an organization that looks after the welfare of Palestinian prisoners, Jarrar is a member of a Palestinian national committee that monitors procedures connected to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The timing of her arrest, just after the Palestinian Authority has joined the ICC, attests to what Fares calls persecution and vengefulness on Israel’s part. Indeed, the claim by attorney Hassan that the detention order was signed upon her arrest is seen by some as supporting that perception.

MK Aida Touma-Suliman (Joint List) condemned the detention order on Sunday. “This is just one more wrongdoing committed by the occupation. The denial of freedom to an entire people, including members of parliament, was carried out of all days on the day on which Jews celebrate their Exodus from slavery to freedom,” she said.

Saliman called on parliamentarians in Israel and abroad to work to revoke Jarrar’s detention order and also to free 16 other members of the Palestinian parliament who are imprisoned in Israel, including senior politician and Hamas member Aziz Dweik.

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Democracy? Like hell!

Nothing to do with democracy lol
If she has committed a crime, then they should answer for that.
She violated an injunction, which means she broke the law.
She is banged to rights.

What the article and the terrorist sympathizer omitted:


The PFLP organization has been behind a number of attacks on Israeli civilians over a period of some 40 years.

As recently as November of last year, it took responsibility for a terror attack in which five people were shot and hacked to death with meat cleavers in an assault on a Jerusalem synagogue.

Last year, the military confined Jarrar’s movements to the city of Jericho and its surroundings.

The army said the restraining order was based on her “incitement and involvement in terror.”

She had long flaunted the Israeli ban

Read more: PA lawmaker sent to six months in jail without trial | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/arrested-pa-lawmaker-sentenced-to-administrative-detention/#ixzz3WWtq2zYt

if they are so sure of what she did...why havnt they given "due process"..i.e a FAIR and open trial?
by a "competant" tribunal

(HUMAN RIGHTS ACT)

Because they don't, nobody gets a fair trail and a chance to state their case, they just lock them up.