The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned over the restrictions imposed by the Internal Security Service (ISS) against lawyers’ visits to their clients, who are detained at detention centers of the ISS, which is considered a violation of legal principles.
In the past few days, PCHR’s lawyers tried to visit a number of their clients held in these detention centers in accordance with a verbal agreement lately reached with the Director of Central Detention at ISS.
This agreement requires PCHR to send a written letter listing the detainees to be visited, in order for the lawyers to conduct the visits within a two-day period from the date of the letter.
On 15 April 2012, PCHR sent a written letter to allow its lawyers to visit five of their clients according to the above-mentioned agreement. On 18 April…
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