EUs EMHRN Issues Political Statement Backing Palestinian Positions
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network sent an open letter to Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on 21 February 2006 demanding that two arrested workers of its member organisations be immediately brought to trial or released. It asserted that "administrative detention is a violation of international human rights and humanitarian legal standards", and condemned Israel for "acts of harassment, intimidation, threats, and deliberate attacks on human rights defenders in the OPT [