Punitive measures being taken against Triago and Rima. Please let your networks know. Adalah Update on Freedom Flotilla Volunteers Held in Israeli Custody
11 June 2025, 6pm Jerusalem Time
Today, Adalah’s lawyers visited the detained volunteers. During the visit, they received updates on the conditions of detention, including recent punitive measures taken against them. The Israeli authorities transferred two of the volunteers — the Brazilian volunteer Thiago Ávila and the French-Palestinian European Parliament member Rima Hassan — to separate prison facilities, away from the others, and placed them in solitary confinement.
Tiago Ávila was placed in isolation in Ayalon Prison due to his ongoing hunger and thirst strike, which he began two days ago. He has also been treated aggressively by prison authorities, although this has not escalated to physical assault.
Rima Hassan was placed in isolation under inhumane conditions in Neve Tirza Prison after writing “Free Palestine” on a wall in Givon Prison. She was moved to a small, windowless cell with extremely poor hygienic conditions and has been denied access to the prison yard.
The act of isolation and transfer to separate prison facilities constitutes a serious violation of the volunteer’s rights and a clear attempt to exert mental and political pressure on them.
Adalah is demanding that the Israeli authorities release the volunteers from solitary confinement, cease all retaliatory actions against them, and immediately release all eight of them — either allowing their return to the ship to continue their humanitarian mission or facilitating their return to their countries of origin.
Adalah Update – 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
Six Freedom Flotilla Volunteers En Route to Airport for Deportation; Two Remain in Israeli Custody
After more than 72 hours in Israeli custody following the unlawful interception of the Madleen Freedom Flotilla in international waters on Sunday night 8 June, Israeli immigration authorities informed Adalah’s lawyers that six volunteers are now being transferred to Ben Gurion Airport for deportation.
The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are: Mark van Rennes (The Netherlands), Suayb Ordu (Turkey), Yasemin Acar (Germany), Thiago Avila (Brazil), Reva Viard (France), and Rima Hassan (France). So far, Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
Two other volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon Prison, under the authority of the Israel Prison Service, awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.
While in custody, volunteers were subjected to mistreatment, punitive measures, and aggressive treatment, and two volunteers were held for some period of time in solitary confinement. Adalah protested this inhumane treatment to the Israeli authorities and demanded that it cease.
Adalah calls for the immediate release of all eight volunteers and for their safe passage to their home countries. Their continued detention and forced deportation are unlawful and a part of Israel’s ongoing violations of international law.
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[11:26 AM, 6/12/2025] Lee Siu Hin: From Adalah, re: Freedom Flotilla:
“After more than 72 hours in Israeli custody following the unlawful interception of the Madleen Freedom Flotilla in international waters on Sunday night 8 June, Israeli immigration authorities informed Adalah’s lawyers that six volunteers are now being transferred to Ben Gurion Airport for deportation.
While in custody, volunteers were subjected to mistreatment, punitive measures, and aggressive treatment, and two volunteers were held for some period of time in solitary confinement. Adalah protested this inhumane treatment to the Israeli authorities and demanded that it cease.
Adalah calls for the immediate release of all eight volunteers and for their safe passage to their home countries. Their continued detention and fo…
[11:28 AM, 6/12/2025] Lee Siu Hin: #CAIRO—-Latest update from this AM from the Intl Security Group:
Regarding #MarchToGaza
Update on detained participants from information shared to date:
-20 French delegates arrested, interrogated and luggage searched.
-2 Dutch delegates deported, 20 detained in airport.
– 70 Algerian delegates detained for over 24 hours in Cairo airport,40 deported and others still held
– 10 Delegated from Norway deported. Egyptian authorities went to the hotel where 2 Norwiegen delegates are staying, and no communication has been established with them since.
– 26 Spanish delegates arrested and detained
– 1 Swedish delegate arrested and detained.
– 1 Finnish delegate with unconfirmed welfare status
-12 Morroccans delegates deported
– 6 German delegates deported
-2 Belgium delegates deported
-30 Greeks under interrogation in airports
– 1 US Delegate detained and interrogated at hotel, then places on a bus for deportation.
– 14 Polish delegates arrested
– 5 Portugese delegates deported
– 25 From Holland detained
– 2 Costa Rican delegates deported, no communication in the last 4 hours
– 1 UK delegated deported
– 2 Australians detained, and another lost communication