The IPU on Wednesday unanimously adopted a report by the Human Rights Committee of parliamentarians on human rights violations against several parliamentarians around the world, including Palestinian parliamentarians detained by the Israeli occupation authorities. 

The report, concerning the Palestinian deputies, condemned the Israeli delegation lack of interaction with the union and refraining from attending a hearing on the circumstances of the detention of prisoners, despite repeated requests from the Committee to members of the delegation of the Israeli Knesset. 

The ruling council of the Union today adopted two separate resolutions on Member of Parliament, MP Marwan Barghouthi and MP Ahmad Saadat, in addition to a clause concerning the rest of the detained prisoners, including MP Khaleda Jarrar. The report presented a summary of the background and conditions of their detention. The ruling council reiterated its deep regret at the continued detention of Barghouthi on the basis of an unfair trial 15 years ago, despite the fact that Israel is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and is obliged to respect it. 

The ruling council also expressed concern about reports of the occupation authorities' threat to retaliate against Barghouthi for exercising his right to Hunger strike. The ruling council demanded information on the outcome of the agreement between Barghouthi and the Israeli prison administration, which led to a halt to the hunger strike. 

The ruling council called for the immediate release of Barghouthi and Saadat, and until this happened, he called for improving the conditions of their detention and granting them the right to visit and providing official information from the Israeli side. Regarding the other deputies, the ruling council, in its decision, condemned Israel's resort to punishing Palestinian lawmakers through their arbitrary and repeated detention, and placing them under administrative detention without providing a legal evidence, and always relying on the so-called secret file.

The ruling council called on the Israeli authorities to present a copy of the indictment, which Israel is trying to prosecute, and called for their immediate release. 

The ruling council included a reference to a report prepared by B'Tselem for human rights on the situation of the imprisoned parliamentarians and violations of their rights.

The Commission on Human Rights for parliamentarians in the Union has heard the Palestinian delegation, which reported on the conditions of detained prisoners in prisons under Israel's occupation