Months after "withdrawing his identity" - lawyer Salah Hammouri was transferred to administrative detention
On Thursday, the occupation authorities transferred the Jerusalemite lawyer, Salah Hammouri, to administrative detention for a period of 4 months.
Last Monday, the occupation forces arrested Salah Hammouri, 36, after storming his house in Kufor Aqab, north of Jerusalem, and transferred him to the Ofer detention center and then to the Al-Maskobyeh detention center.
The prosecution of Hammouri began 21 years ago, and he explained in a previous interview that he was arrested for the first time in 2001 for a period of 5 months, and in 2004 he was detained under administrative detention for 4 months, and in 2005 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison, then he was arrested in 2017 for a period of 13 months under administrative detention.
In 2020, the occupation intelligence handed a decision to the freed prisoner Salah Hammouri about the “intent of the Minister of Interior in the occupation government to withdraw his residency in Jerusalem, “identity”, under the pretext of posing threat to the occupation state and his disloyalty to it andbeing an active member in the Popular Front.” In October 2021, the "Minister of Justice in the occupation government and the legal advisor approved the decision to withdraw his identity.
The occupation authorities dispersed Salah Hammouri’s family after his French wife was deported to France in 2016, while she was seven months pregnant. She was detained in the airport for three days while coming home to her house in Jerusalem, and was deported and banned from entering the country for 10 years.
During the past years, the occupation authorities prevented Hammouri from entering the West Bank for two years.
