Resources
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 [...]
Arafat Jaradat autopsy report released, shows death due to torture
2 months ago
Al-Haq and Addameer released an unofficial English translation of the autopsy report for Arafat Jaradat conducted by Dr. Saber al-Aloul of the Palestinian Medico-legal institute on Friday March 1, revealing that Jaradat’s body was bruised and injured while his heart appeared healthy and had no signs of damage. Arafat Jaradat Autopsy – Arabic Unofficial Translation [...]
Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh’s detention extended
2 months ago
Update from friends and supporters of Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh, who is being held under interrogation since February 16: A military court in the city of Ashkelon extended the detention of Mohammad Saba’aneh, a Palestinian cartoonist for Al-Hayat al-Jadida, for a second time, Saba’aneh was arrested on February 16 while crossing the Allenby Bridge checkpoint [...]
Samidoun’s Khaled Barakat radio interview about Palestinian political prisoners
2 months ago
Khaled Barakat of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network was interviewed on “The Friday Morning After,” on Montreal’s CKUT 90.3 FM by host Sara Shaltony. The interview aired on February 22, 2013 and covered prisoner hunger strikes, including the strike of Samer Issawi, and the protests breaking out across Palestine in support of the thousands of [...]
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 [...]
Factsheet and Banners: Resources on Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strikes
4 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 [...]
Over 75,000 Palestinians arrested since beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada
7 months ago
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Former Political Prisoner, Palestinian Researcher, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, issued a report marking the 12th Anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (September 28 2000), and said Israeli soldiers conducted more than 75.000 arrests, and deported hundreds of residents. Farawna said that more than 9000 children were kidnapped by the army in [...]
Video: First public speech by freed prisoner Woroud Qasem
8 months ago
Released prisoner Woroud Qasem spoke in public for the first time on August 9 since her liberation from occupation prisons. Translation and video via Translators for Palestine. Follow their excellent work on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/TranslatorsForPalestine She is from al-Tira’ in Occupied Palestine ’48 and was one of the few women prisoners not released in the [...]
Addameer releases August 2012 statistics on Palestinian prisoners
9 months ago
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association released their monthly statistical report on Palestinian political prisoners for August 1, 2012 as below: Addameer Monthly Detention Report – August 2012 -there are 4,660 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails -there are 285 Palestinians held in administrative detention including 14 PLC members -there are 6 female Palestinian [...]
