Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was the
Ban in 2016
Ban, left, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in January 2006
Left to right: Peter Krämer, Yoo Soon-taek, Jaka Bizilj, and Ban at Sports for Peace in July 2010
Ban Ki-moon with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Moscow in April 2008
The future of Palestinians detained by Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is considered central to progress in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Cases of prison sentences i
Palestinian in Israeli custody, 2010
Damon prison, located at the depopulated Palestinian village of Khirbat Al-Dumun
Jalame Prison (Kishon Detention Center), located at the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Jalama, Haifa
Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militia, convicted by Israeli court on five counts of murder and sentenced to five life sentences and forty years in prison.