JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities have renewed the detention of a former Minister of Detainee Affairs until June 2012, a Hamas statement said Friday.
Wasfi Izzat Qabha, 52, was due to be released on Dec. 10 but Israeli authorities extended his sentence until June 10. He has not been tried or informed of any charges against him.
Qabha has been detained nine times and spent 13 years in Israeli jails.
He is one of hundreds of Palestinians held in administrative detention, whose imprisonment is authorized by an administrative order rather than a judicial decree.
On Thursday, an Israeli military court renewed the administrative detention of Fatah lawmaker Hussam Khader for a further six months.
The Israeli rights organization B'Tselem says the practice of detention without charge "is carried out under the thick cover of privilege, which denies detainees the possibility of mounting a proper defense."
At times, Israel has held thousands of prisoners in administrative detention, without informing them of charges against them or prosecuting them.
The practice makes "a mockery of the protections specified in Israeli and international law to protect the right to liberty and due process, the right of defendants to state their case, and the presumption of innocence," B'Tselem says.
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