Ofer Military Court Extends Dr. Dima Amin’s Detention by Three Days to File an Indictment

Today, the Israeli occupation court extended Dr. Dima Amin’s detention for an additional three days, until Thursday at 10:30 a.m., for the purpose of filing an indictment against her.

The police had initially obtained a decision to extend Dr. Amin’s detention for five days, allegedly to complete their investigation. However, during that period, no additional interrogation session was conducted.

Yesterday, Monday, the police requested a further four-day extension of her detention, again citing the need to interrogate her. However, as of this morning, she had still not been interrogated, before the police subsequently referred her case file to the military prosecution.

During the court hearing, Dr. Amin’s lawyer objected to the request to extend her detention, stressing that the failure to use the previous detention period to conduct an effective and objective investigation undermines her rights as a detainee, particularly given that the investigation cited by the police as the basis for the repeated detention extension requests had not taken place. The lawyer also called for her release, arguing that her continued detention, despite the failure to conduct the investigations used to justify the extensions, constitutes an infringement of her legal rights. He further emphasized that the request for her release was also based on her health condition and the poor conditions of detention, which fail to provide her with adequate care and suitable conditions.

Despite this, the court decided to extend Dr. Amin’s detention for three additional days and set Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for consideration of the filing of an indictment against her.

The continued detention of Dr. Amin comes within a broader context of the targeting and detention of healthcare workers and human rights defenders, underscoring the need to ensure respect for her procedural rights and to prevent detention from being used as a means of punishment or pressure against detainees.