page_title: Khalida Jarrar
section_title: Administrative detention and trial
hierarchical_section_title: Khalida Jarrar / Administrative detention and trial
caption_attribution_description: English: Palestinian parliament member Khalida Jarrar with MK Ayman Odeh Head of the Joint List after the Israeli authorities released her
context_page_description: Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian politician. She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Legislative Council. She was elected to the PLC in January 2006 as one of the PFLP's three deputies and has continued to serve as an elected representative ever since. She is also the Palestinian representative on the Council of Europe and is currently head of the Prisoners Committee of the PLC. She played a major role in Palestine's application to join the International Criminal Court.
  She has been arrested multiple times by the Israeli authorities. Several of these arrests resulted in administrative detention without any charges being brought. She has also been charged and convicted of "incitement and involvement in terror" by an Israeli military court, and sentenced to 15 months in prison, of which she served 6, before being released after an international campaign on her behalf.
  She is presently again being held in administrative detention, after being arrested by the Israelis at her home in Ramallah, in late October, 2019.
context_section_description: On 2 April 2015, at around 1:15 a.m., Jarrar was arrested at her home by Israeli soldiers. Her husband says that a unit of 50–60 soldiers smashed the front gate and broke into the house, but otherwise did not act violently. No reason was given him for the arrest, though a commander, a Captain Yihye, said she had flouted an earlier army order to leave her home. Soldiers tried to prevent the husband and wife from embracing as she left, but Yihye intervened to allow them to do so. One of their daughters was found by her father bound by plastic handcuffs, after Khalida was taken away. According to the arrest warrant, she was involved in 'incitement and involvement in terror.' She was incarcerated in HaSharon prison. Two computers and a mobile phone were confiscated. A six-month administrative detention, which can be renewed indefinitely, was issued against her by Central Command Chief Gen. Roni Numa and was reviewed by a military court on April 8, where it was confirmed, despite international protests.  Her detention without trial was condemned by Israel's Haaretz newspaper, which claimed Israel at times adopts the procedure excessively. Though International humanitarian law does accept administrative detention in exceptional cases and only as a last resort, human rights groups argue that Israel, which claims the detentions thwart militant attacks, exceeds the limits by its extensive recourse to the practice.
  Israel's Palestinian Arab MPS, including Ahmad Tibi, called for her immediate release and Aida Touma-Suleiman called it 'a political detention of an elected official who is opposed to the occupation.' A Palestinian prisoner advocate who tracks the welfare of Palestinian prisoners, Kaddoura Fares, said the timing of the arrest aroused suspicions that Israel's measure against Jarrar was motivated by vindictiveness, given her role in monitoring International Criminal Court (ICC) procedures, and the fact that the order for her detention was implemented immediately after the Palestinian National Authority was accepted as a member of the ICC and was arrested just after the Palestinian Authority joined the ICC. Her husband also stated it may be a possible retaliation for Palestine's membership of the ICC. Amnesty International noted that Jarrar suffers from chronic health problems, with the prospect of facing indefinite detention without charge or trial. 58 Members of the European Parliament protested her arrest in an open letter to Federica Mogherini, stating that attempts to forcibly transfer a person under occupation, to which she was subject in August 2014, constituted a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Haaretz stated at the time of her arrest:
  'If Jarrar broke the law, Israel must put her on trial and prove she committed a crime. If, on the other hand, the reason for her detention is revenge, she must be released immediately.'
  Her administrative detention led to formal imprisonment pending a trial, which began with a closed session on April 15, at a military criminal court at Ofer Prison where the prosecutor at the Israeli military court laid 12 charges against her, based on her association with the PFLP, including membership of an organization Israel classifies as illegal; participation in protests, and incitement to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Several counts refer to her having given interviews, speeches and lectures, participating in marches and a politicized book fair, calling for Palestinian prisoners to be released, and opposing the Israeli occupation. The indictment also spoke of suspicions she had visited the homes of prisoners’ families, and of having attended a book fair, of  calling for the release of Ahmad Saadat, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
  Haaretz has called the trials "a Kafkaesque perversion of military law".  According to Addameer, the presiding judge confirmed the administrative detention order, which means she cannot be released on bail. A date of 29 April was set for a judicial review of the charges, in a hearing that will determine if she is to be detained on 
caption: Palestinian parliament member Khalida Jarrar with MK Ayman Odeh Head of the Joint List after the Israeli authorities released her
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