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Addameer launches Stop Administrative Detention Campaign for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
1 month ago
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has created a new website of factsheets, materials, reports and invaluable information for all advocates for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, as part of its new campaign to stop administrative detention: www.stopadcampaign.com Join Addameer’s Global End Administrative Detention Campaign! Addameer calls on activists and people of conscience to stand in [...]
On International Women’s Day, freedom for Palestinian women prisoners
2 months ago
Palestinian women have been part of all aspects of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, including behind bars in occupation prisons. Since 1967, over 15,000 Palestinian women have spent time in Israeli jails. This report by UNWomen, Suspended Lives, looks at the lives and experiences of selected Palestinian women prisoners. There are currently fourteen [...]
Washington, DC protest targets AIPAC, stands with Palestinian prisoners
2 months ago
Activists with CODEPINK, Interfaith Peace Builders, the US Campaign to End the Occupation, the Fellowship of Reconciliation and other organizations gathered in Washington, DC on March 3 for ExposeAIPAC, a protest outside the America Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference. AIPAC is the leading Israel lobby organization in Washington, DC and is closely linked [...]
Israeli Apartheid Week Resources on Palestinian Prisoners: Factsheets, Posters, Leaflets
2 months ago
Israeli Apartheid Week is fast-approaching, and hundreds of cities and campuses around the world will be holding events throughout the week to expose the realities of Israeli apartheid, including the mass imprisonment, administrative detention, and torture of Palestinian prisoners. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is providing the following materials to help support campus and community [...]
Addameer: HUNGER STRIKES ESCALATE: 12 Detainees on Hunger Strike, some nearing death as the Israeli Prison Service denies Addameer’s lawyers visitation rights
2 months ago
Occupied Ramallah, 26 February 2013 – Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association can confirm that the number of prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli Occupation’s jails has increased to twelve. Detainee Ayman Sharawna (36 years old) from Dura Al Khalil: Sharawna started his hunger strike on 1 July 2012 in protest of his re-arrest under Article 186 of [...]
Arafat Jaradat Was Tortured To Death, Autopsy Concludes
2 months ago
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies From the IMEMC: Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported on Sunday evening that the autopsy report of detainee Arafat Jardat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, revealed that the detainee died due to extreme torture. In a joint press conference, held in the central West Bank city [...]
Factsheet and Banners: Resources on Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strikes
3 months ago
Four Palestinian prisoners are currently on hunger strike: Samer Issawi, Jafar Ezzedine, Tareq Qa’adan and Yousef Shaaban Yassin. Many groups and organizations are planning actions and banner drops, including those organized by the Free Samer Issawi campaign, to publicize the cases of these hunger strikes as their situations reach a further crisis point. The following [...]
Addameer: Concern Mounts for Palestinian Hunger strikers
4 months ago
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association issued the following statement on January 15, highlighting the urgent situations of Palestinian hunger strikers: Ramallah, 15 January 2012 – Addameer is deeply concerned for the lives of four Palestinian hunger strikers as their health continues to deteriorate. Addameer lawyer Fares Ziad recently visited three hunger strikers Jafar Azzidine, [...]
VOTE NOW for G4S as Worst Company of the Year!
4 months ago
G4S – the world’s largest private security and military company, which provides services and equipment to Israeli occupation prisons - has been nominated as “Worst Company of the Year” in the 2013 Public Eye People’s Choice Awards. Vote now for G4S, which provides services and security equipment for Israeli prisons, settlements, checkpoints, and police, as “Worst Company [...]
January 7: Global solidarity hunger strike to support Samer Issawi: Events and actions
4 months ago
Palestinian and solidarity activists working for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners have called for an international day of action to free Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Samer Issawi on Monday, January 7, 2013. January 7 will mark the 160th day of Samer’s hunger strike, demanding his freedom. Tweet now: Global Actions 1/7 for #SamerIssawi #PalHunger prisoner [...]
