The Israeli authorities released journalist Asmaa Harish yesterday after holding her for six months in administrative detention in Damon Prison, the Palestinian Information Centre has reported. So called administrative detention means that Harish, from Ramallah, was held with neither charge nor trial.
She was detained in April of this year, and has been since subjected to ill-treatment and serious violations as part of the systematic and unprecedented retaliatory measures imposed on male and female prisoners since the start of Israel’s Gaza genocide almost exactly a year ago.
Israel continues to hold 96 Palestinian women in its prison, including 27 administrative detainees. This figure does not include those prisoners from Gaza held by the occupation state.
The release of Harish means that Israel is now holding six women journalists in its prisons.
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