Hasan Safadi
Journalist Hasan Safadi has been detained without trial for speaking against Israel’s occupation
Palestinian journalist and human rights defender’s interrogation extended once more by Israeli court
Hasan Safadi is a journalist and Arabic media coordinator for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Hasan has also contributed to numerous publications about the situation of human rights in Palestine, including Assafir, a newspaper published in Lebanon.
ADDAMEER (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. Established in 1992 by a group of activists interested in human rights, the center offers free legal aid to political prisoners, advocates their rights at the national and international level, and works to end torture and other violations of prisoners' rights through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.
Human rights defenders in the OPT are subjected to acts of harassment, restrictions on freedom of movement, stigmatisation, abductions, long periods of arbitrary detention usually under administrative detention orders, illegal searches of their homes and offices and killings. Many of the violations are state-sanctioned, or if not sanctioned at the highest levels of the Israeli political and military establishment, then condoned by the ongoing policy of impunity which permeates the military and judicial system in relation to the OPT.
