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26.05.2022
For over two years, the Israel Prison Service prevented a mother from visiting her prisoner son, held separately from other inmates due to his mental health condition: The mother finally visited her son following HaMoked’s petition
28.03.2022
After a two-year visit-ban: children from the oPt can again visit their parents incarcerated in Israel
16.02.2022
After almost two years and following High Court petition by HaMoked and Al-Mezan: The State agreed to renew family visits to Gaza residents incarcerated inside Israel
22.12.2021
Cut off from their families for 21 months: HaMoked and Al Mezan petitioned the High Court of Justice to renew family visits to 250 Palestinian inmates from Gaza who are held inside Israel
01.11.2021
“A child must not be punished over the circumstances of his birth”: Only following HaMoked’s petition, the IPS allowed a toddler to visit his imprisoned father after a two-year-long ban
17.10.2021
The Israel Prison Service refuses to hold a hearing before banning family visits to a prisoner: “visits are not a right, but merely a privilege”
09.06.2021
HaMoked in an urgent letter to the Israel Prison Service: stop the prolonged blanket ban on family visits from the oPt to Palestinian “security prisoners”
31.12.2020
HaMoked and other human rights organization petition the HCJ: Palestinian “security” inmates must have regular phone contact with their families so long as the Coronavirus pandemic restricts prison visits
13.07.2020
HaMoked and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel to the Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee: prison visits by family and lawyers must not be banned due to the pandemic; legislation must ensure regular contact between inmates and the outside world when visits are suspended
05.08.2019
Following a petition to the court: a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem succeeded to visit his incarcerated brother, after a two-year forced separation