Prisoners' institutions (the Prisoners' Authority, the Prisoners' Club, and the Addameer Prisoner Care Foundation) said that the legal teams in the institutions specialized in prisoners' affairs face great difficulties in following up on detainees. Since 10/7/2023, the occupation courts have imposed a number of restrictions on the work of lawyers in Follow-up of detainees, some of which was through the activation of military orders used in a state of emergency, in addition to difficulties in the process of obtaining information regarding new detainees.

The prisoner institutions stated in a statement today, Wednesday: “Among the procedures that the institutions monitored through their lawyers: Palestinian lawyers who represent Palestinian detainees before the military courts were informed of the activation of Article (33) of Military Order No. (1651), which stipulates the arrest procedures” in A military campaign to confront terrorism, which allows a person to be detained for 8 days before being brought to court instead of 96 hours, and he is automatically prevented from meeting his lawyer for two days.

The statement added that there are difficulties in knowing where the detainee is being held, as the lawyer needs 48 hours to know where the detainee is being held, in addition to the military courts (Ofer and Salem) postponing all pleading sessions.

In addition, all extension sessions are conducted via video conference, which has contributed, in the past and today, to creating difficulties in communication between the detainee and his lawyer, and an imbalance in the data related to his case.

Lawyers face restrictions and obstacles within the courts, regarding procedural matters and dealing with them.

As for following up on the issue of administrative detainees, the occupation continues, as before, to escalate in issuing more administrative detention orders, in addition to postponing all appeal sessions scheduled for administrative detainees.

Visits by lawyers to prisoners inside prisons were stopped, and prisoners were placed in a double isolation process, as well as visits to detainees in detention and investigation centers.