Palestinian circus performer Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha’s appeal against his six month administrative detention order was rejected on 31 March by a military judge. Administrative detention allows Israel to detain people without charge or trial while denying them the right to defend themselves or effectively challenge the legality of their detention because the authorities largely withhold from them and their lawyers the “evidence” against them. Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha’s detention order will expire on 13 June 2016, although it is renewable indefinitely.
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