Status of Human Rights in Palestine
Bethlehem correction and rehabilitation center due to the problems and
conditions which compromise the human rights and inmates’ rights. It
also recommends permitting and applying snap visits to the correction and
rehabilitation centers, finding legal mechanisms to expedite resolution of
inmates’ files, and apply the article which stipulates release after serving
two thirds of the sentences which would reduce the number of inmates
held in the correction and rehabilitation centers.
3.3.2
Police Holding Facilities
Nothing has changed with respect to the conditions of the Police Detention
Facilities. They still lack the minimum level of detention requirements,
whether in terms of spaces, or the living standards or health conditions.
These facilities are affected by limited spaces, high humidity, inadequate
ventilation, and insufficient natural lighting. Sanitary toilets are also
lacking, resulting in a repulsive smell.
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ICHR recommends establishing correction and rehabilitation centers in
the governorates which have no centers, and expand the same in order to
prevent transferring the Police Detention Facilities in these governorates
to permanent detention facilities. It also recommends the rehabilitation
and maintenance of these Police Detention Facilities in terms of the
infrastructure, and fixing their health and environmental conditions until
correction and rehabilitation centers are established. ICHR recommends
providing military medical service clinics in these Police Detention
Facilities which should be open 24-hour a day and should contain all
medicines. ICHR recommends observing the arrest periods stipulated in
the law and not to exceed the statutory periods permitted by the law for
detention in such detention facilities, which is a maximum of 24 hours.
3.3.3
Detention Facilities affiliated to the Security Agencies
The 3 securities agencies in the West Bank; namely the Preventive Security,
General Intelligence, and Military Intelligence, continued pursuing their
duties as usual, being vested with judicial duties, where they detain
persons in the centers of the security agencies for extended periods of
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