The Baltimore Sun · Baltimore, Maryland · 6 February 1991
CP-1991-001
‘Administrative detention’: Israelis skip due process
Doug Struck, Sun staff correspondent
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“JERUSALEM — He still does not know the crime that sent him to a prison camp in the desert, said Jad Isaac. He is Palestinian, and that is offense enough, he said. Dr. Isaac is a professor of biochemistry at Bethlehem University and was placed under ‘administrative detention’ by Israeli authorities in 1988.
His case is strikingly similar to that of Sari Nusseibeh, another professor and moderate supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who was arrested by Israeli authorities last week, accused of spying for Iraq during the Persian Gulf war. Mr. Nusseibeh was ordered held under administrative detention. Mr.
Nusseibeh’s arrest has again drawn attention to the detention procedure that has been used by Israeli authorities to imprison 14,000 Palestinians or their supporters in the past three years, according to the military’s own count. An arrest under administrative detention requires little more than the signature of a military officer. There are no charges. There is no trial.
The person detained may appear with a lawyer before a judge,—” (See DETAIN, 9A, Col. 3)
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The paper puts the term in quotation marks and calls it what it is in the same line. The figure of fourteen thousand is attributed to the military’s own count.
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"‘Administrative detention’: Israelis skip due process," The Baltimore Sun, 6 February 1991, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1991-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1991-001
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