by B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Jun 20, 1998

On June 16, 1998 a military judge heard Ossama Barham's appeal of administrative detention. Ossama was represented by Adv. Tamar Pelleg-Sryck of HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual. This appeal was rejected.

Ossama Barham is from Ramin in Tulkarm district. He was a journalism student at the Ibrahimi College in November 1993 when he was detained and held in administrative detention for ten months. He was released on September 3, 1994. Two weeks later, he was re-arrested and given a six-month administrative detention order. This detention order has been extended every since. Ossama's current administrative detention order expires in September, 1998 -- totaling four consecutive years in administrative detention.

You can help put a stop to prolonged detention without trial. Write to those responsible urging them to release Ossam Barham.

Faxes should be sent to the following people: (if the fax is temporarily out of order, keep trying. These are the correct numbers)

• Major General Uzi Dayan, Central Region Commander, fax: 972-2-530-5741
• Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, fax: 972-3-696-2757
• Military Advocate General, Brigadier General Uri Shoham, fax: 972-3-569-4370

SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Major General Dayan,
I urge you to put a stop to the endless administrative detention of Ossama Barham, who by the time the current detention order expires will have spent four years in administrative detention. There can be no justification for such a prolonged use of administrative detention. If Mr. Barham is suspected of committing a crime, he must be charged and tried for it. If he is not to be tried, he must be released. People cannot be detained for years with no due process.

Mini-conference on Administrative Detention to be held

The programs is as follows:

09:30-10:00	Coffee and cakes
10:00-12:00	Does the Security of the State Justify the Limitation of Human Rights?
	Chair:	Dr. Dan Simon, University of Haifa
	Speakers:	Prof. Leon Shelef, Tel Aviv University Prof. Gideon Fishman, Tel Aviv University Dr. Imanuel Gross, Tel Aviv University
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break
13:30-14:00	Special presentation: Bagatz Plonim V. Ministaer of defense, Dr. Yonathan Yovel, University of Haifa
14:00-15:30	Field report: The Daily practices of Administrative Detetion
	Chair:	Dr. Yuval Yonay, University of Haifa
	Speakers:	LL.B. Tamar Peleg, Hamoked Lehaganat Haprat Mr. Samir Shalalde, an administrative detainee Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University and Open Doors LL.B. Yaakov Anoh

For more information on the Haifa conference, contact Professor Yuval Yonay: rsso231@soc.haifa.ac.il.

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