Jericho Prison News Today

The crackdown comes on the eve of the elections for the student council at Bir Zeit University, north of Ramallah, which are scheduled to be held later this week.

Palestinian sources said gunmen operate under the name of a group called Aqbat Jaber Camp Battalion, the first of its kind in the Jericho area.

Security forces fired tear gas and assaulted a number of Palestinian protesters, who chanted slogans in support of the Lions’ Den and against the continued detention of certain detainees.

On Wednesday the Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Commenting on the Israeli killing of a Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank, the PA co...

A Palestinian Authority court in Jericho ordered the release of two senior political prisoners on Tuesday whose detention 16 days ago triggered an angry reaction in the occupied West Bank city of Nabl...

Dozens of Palestinian families, activists and factional leaders organised a protest on Saturday in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. They called for the Palestinian Authority (PA)...

In the months following the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian journalists have faced intensified repression from both Israeli forces and the Palestinian Authority.

The detainees who are being held in PA prisons include university students, academics, political activists, as well as people suspected of affiliation with Hamas.

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March 2, 2021 at 4:14 pm Security services of the Palestinian Authority (PA) have arrested several Hamas members and activists in the occupied West Bank and put them in Al-Junaid Prison in the city of Nablus. They were later moved to the notorious Jericho Prison, which has been known to hold Hamas members and leaders, as well as critics of the PA. This came just a few days after the presidential decree which was issued to ban the detention and prosecution of individuals for reasons relating t...