Editing Marwan Barghouti (section)

== Conditions of imprisonment and alleged mistreatment ==
Barghouti was held in solitary confinement for three years following his 2002 detention and has frequently been returned to solitary confinement since.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ashly |first=Jaclynn |title=The love story of Fadwa and Marwan Barghouti |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/28/the-love-story-of-fadwa-and-marwan-barghouti |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref> Since 7 October 2023, Barghouti has been interred in solitary confinement. Shortly after that date, the governor of [[Ofer Prison]] ordered Barghouti to kneel before the governor, according to his son, Arab Barghouti.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Fl5TQiDGlhJGxKGT&t=708&v=uQKN8xvR800&feature=youtu.be |title=The Case of Marwan Barghouti: How Israel Imprisoned Palestine's Most Popular Leader |date=2025-01-18 |last=Zeteo |access-date=2025-03-23 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Arab described the order as an attempt to humiliate Barghouti, and by extension the watching prisoners, who saw Barghouti as a leader. Arab added that when his father refused to comply he was forced to his knees by prison guards, dislocating his shoulder.

In December 2023, his lawyer claimed, Barghouti was beaten on several occasions, and on one occasion "dragged on the floor naked in front of other prisoners."<ref name=":15">{{Cite news |last=Michaelson |first=Ruth |last2=Taha |first2=Sufian |last3=Kierszenbaum |first3=Quique |date=2024-05-18 |title=Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti 'amounts to torture' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> In March 2024, Barghouti told his lawyers that he was dragged to an area of [[Megiddo prison]] without security cameras and assaulted with batons by prison guards.<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":16">{{Cite news |last=Khoury |first=Jack |title=Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti 'beaten with clubs' by guards, family claims |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-19/ty-article/.premium/jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-beaten-with-clubs-by-guards-family-claims/0000018e-5398-d37a-a1ae-5bf8d11b0000 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250107093617/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-19/ty-article/.premium/jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-beaten-with-clubs-by-guards-family-claims/0000018e-5398-d37a-a1ae-5bf8d11b0000 |archive-date=2025-01-07 |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=Haaretz.com |language=en}}</ref> The Guardian reported, "He recalled bleeding from the nose as he was dragged across the floor by his handcuffs, before he was beaten unconscious."<ref name=":15" /> According to his family, speaking in February 2024, Barghouti was held in the dark, with loud music playing into his cell for days at a time.<ref name="thetimes.com"/> In May 2024, The Guardian reported that Barghouti "spends his days huddled in a cramped, dark, solitary cell, with no way to tend to his wounds, and a shoulder injury from being dragged with his hands cuffed behind his back,".<ref name=":15" /> The [[Public Committee Against Torture in Israel]] said that Barghouti had been subjected to treatment amounting to torture, which they said had "become standard across all detention facilities since 7 October."<ref name=":4" />

Israeli prison authorities were accused of "brutally assaulting" Barghouti in September 2024.<ref name=":16" /> The Israeli prison service said in October 2024 that they had rejected two complaints of mistreatment by Barghouti over the past year on the grounds that there had been no violation of the law.<ref name=":6" />