IAPL
Salah Hamouri held under administrative detention; was picked up day after publishing op-ed criticizing ‘Israeli apartheid’; rights groups say his phone was hacked with NSO spyware
A French-Palestinian lawyer will spend at least three more months detained without charge under a controversial Israeli practice, court documents show.
Israeli authorities overnight Sunday-Monday extended the detention of Salah Hamouri, 37, under what is known as administrative detention, according to the documents.
The practice allows suspects to be detained for renewable periods of up to six months.
An Israeli military court sentenced Hamouri to administrative detention in March. It accused him of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and said he “endangers security in the region.”
Hamouri, who holds French citizenship, denies being a member of the PFLP.
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