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In addressing these violations, ICHR sent written correspondence to all the
competent authorities in the Government in Gaza (Director General of Police,
Director General of the Internal Security Service, Moderator of the Interior
Ministry, and the Interior Minister). It also held several meetings to investigate
these cases and take necessary actions and measures to hold accountable those
found responsible for committing any of those abuses, and to ensure no
recurrence. As for the responses, there were no responses to the complaints filed
with the Internal Security Service since the beginning of the year 2010. There
have been some responses to the complaints submitted to the Police, most of
them typical, and without achieving any satisfactory result.
The most significant violations received by ICHR as citizens’ complaints during
2010 include violation of citizen's right to personal liberty through arbitrary
detention with the absence of the proper legal procedures in the arrest and
detention process, including arbitrary detention on political grounds. The number
of violations recorded by ICHR in this regard was (326) violations.98
ICHR monitored, through field visits to prisons and detention centers, and
exceeded (193) visits in the Gaza Strip, the presence of (34) detainees arrested
arbitrarily on political grounds to the end of the year 2010. The number of
violations recorded by ICHR as arbitrary detentions due to political affiliation
amounted to (60) violations, carried out by the Police and the Internal Security
Service of the Interior Ministry in the Deposed Government in Gaza. Violations
targeted Fatah Movement activists and former employees in the Palestinian
Security Services. Citizens claimed in their complaints that the Security Services
(Internal Security or Police) detained or arrested them on political grounds, and
political activists were often detained in the Gaza Strip, with claims that they had
committed criminal offenses, or transferred information “to Ramallah
Government”.
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Of the complaints received by ICHR, among them is a complaint by Yousef Samir Aweis, 21, from
Jabalya, demanding the Director General of the Internal Security Service investigate his arrest on the
background of his political affiliation with Fatah Movement on 02/01/2010 at the Internal Security
Service, and being attacked while in detention. On 18/01/2010, he was referred to the military
prosecution and was investigated on the background of being part of a revolutionary unit. Another
complaint submitted by the family of Mohammed Omar, 30, from Nusseirat, demanding the Director
General of the Police investigate his detention on 25/08/2010 by the General Intelligence Service for
distributing political leaflets of Hizb el‐Tahrir “The Liberation Party”, concerning the negotiations between
the PNA and Israel.
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