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Scoop:: ‘Unlawful Combatants’: Excuse for Indefinite Detention

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28 August 2011

Special report by UFree Network Executive Summary The right to liberty is one of the pillars of human rights.
International law –most significantly, the Geneva Conventions and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – state unequivocally that imprisonment without opportunity for appeal is a breach of the fundamental principles of justice.
However, the Israeli occupation has detained Palestinians without charge or trial for years, and attempted to legitimize the practice with the adoption of the Internment of Unlawful Combatants Law in 2002.
Because the law allows detainees to be held as long as actions labeled as “hostilities against Israel” continue, the government can imprison individuals for an unlimited period of time without trial, since the occupation of Palestinian territories the Israeli government shows no sign of being willing to negotiate a mutually acceptable end.
In fact, although Israel ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, it stipulated simultaneously that, from the time of its founding in 1948, it has been in a state of emergency that justifies exceptions.

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