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Update: 6 December 2022 On December 06, Salah Hammouri and his legal representatives, including Adv. Lea Tsemel, Adv. Mahmoud Hassan, and HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual, attended two hearing sessions regarding Salah’s deportation and residency revocation.  From the deportation hearing:Salah and his legal representatives were present, as well as a representative from …

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Salah had a hearing today 5 December in Givon prison/ at Al-Ramleh, where he again didn’t have the chance to be represented by his lawyers and Salah refused to proceed with any hearings without his lawyers. The French consul in Tel Aviv was present and could briefly speak with Salah.

“Hamouri’s deportation would pave the way for later deportation of Jerusalemite Palestinians, which means, which will further threaten Palestinian presence in the city,” said Sahar Francis, director of the Addameer Prisoners’ Support Association.

French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri remains held without charge or trial.

French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri remains held without charge or trial.

The Secretary-General is closely following the case of Hammouri and other Palestinian administrative detainees.

Stephane Dujarric made the demand at a press conference on Saturday, stressing that the UN is closely monitoring the situation of the prisoners held under the “administrative detention,” including prominent French-Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hammouri.

The spokesman’s remarks came after independent experts had called on Israel to immediately release Hammouri, who recently ended a 19-day hunger strike in objection to the systematic policy of administrative detention.

The UN has called on Israel to either release or charge Palestinian prisoners held under administrative detention without trial, drawing particular attention to the case of human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri