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Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Held Without Charge in Israeli Prison

HeadlineFeb 14, 2024

In more news from the region, Al Jazeera is reporting the Palestinian human rights lawyer Diala Ayesh has now spent nearly a month in jail without charge. She was detained on January 17 at an Israeli checkpoint. Prior to her arrest, she had helped form a new collective of women lawyers to work on the unprecedented number of Palestinians being jailed in the West Bank and Jerusalem following the October 7 Hamas attack.

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