'INVISIBILITY CLOAK'
A village and a detainee
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:TIME SLIPS THROUGH OUR FINGERS
SAVE ATIR-UMM EL-HIERAN
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For over 10 years, the Arab Bedouin residents of Atir-Umm el-Hieran, twin unrecognized villages in the Naqab (Negev), have challenged the Israeli government’s efforts to demolish their homes and evict them from their land. Adalah is representing the villagers before Israeli courts and planning committees and has managed to delay this mass displacement, but the villagers know that time is running out.
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The arrest and incommunicado detention of Adalah's web editor and journalist Majd Kayyal following his return from the 40th anniversary conference of As-Safir newspaper in Lebanon is stirring up renewed conversation about secret arrests in Israel. Israeli law grants the courts and the General Security Service (GSS, Shabak) the authority to impose conditions and engage in practices that strip the detainee of his or her rights to a fair due process. These practices include the imposition of sweeping gag orders, the prohibition on meeting with legal counsel, the use of secret evidence, and exemption from audio and video recordings of interrogations. Together these practices amount to “secret arrests†and recall the practices of history's dark regimes.
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