Statements
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 [...]
Imprisoned leader Sa’adat mourns the loss of President Hugo Chavez, friend of Palestine
2 months ago
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, expressed his deepest condolences for the loss of international leader Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, inheritor of the struggle of the Venezuelan people and Latin American leader Simon Bolivar and a leader of [...]
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 [...]
In light of findings of Arafat Jaradat autopsy, PCHR calls for independent International investigation
2 months ago
The autopsy report prepared by Dr Saber al-‘Aloul, Director of the Palestinian Medico-legal Institute on Arafat Jaradat, a Palestinian detainee who died in an Israeli prison, has concluded that Jaradat’s death was caused by nervous shock resulting from severe pain, which was caused by multiple injuries inflicted through direct and extreme torture. Arafaf Shalish Shaheen [...]
BREAKING: Addameer Offices Raided by Israeli Occupying Forces This Morning
5 months ago
Via Addameer: http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=549 At 3 am this morning, 11 December 2012, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights office was raided by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Four laptops, one hard disk and a video camera were taken among other materials. The IOF destroyed the office; desks, ransacked filing cabinets and files and scattered files [...]
Khaled Barakat: Palestinian and Arab struggles in the face of Canada’s ‘War on Terror’
6 months ago
The following speech, on the topic “Organizing in solidarity with Palestinian and Arab struggles in the face of Canada’s ‘War on Terror’” was delivered by Palestinian writer and activist Khaled Barakat of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in Toronto, Canada on Friday, November 9, 2012 at the Right to Resist, Right to Exist conference sponsored by the [...]
October 25: Day of Action to Free the Holy Land Five
6 months ago
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network strongly supports the following call for the October 25 National Day of Action in the U.S. for the Holy Land Five. Palestinian political prisoners are not only behind bars in Israeli jails. Just like all aspects of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid in Palestine, imprisonment not only impacts Palestinians in [...]
Samidoun statement on Prisoners’ Justice Day
9 months ago
August 10, Prisoners’ Justice Day, was initiated by prisoners at Millhaven Maximum Security Penitentiary in 1976 as a day to remember all of the men, women and youth who have died inside Canadian prisons, and to draw attention to the conditions that contribute to prisoner deaths. Thousands of prisoners across Canada went on a one day hunger strike [...]
Take Action: Free Palestinian farmers and agricultural workers targeted for imprisonment
9 months ago
As they organize to defend their land and Palestinian farming against the onslaught of settlements and siege, Palestinian agricultural workers and organizers have been subject to an intensified arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. See below for text of the Samidoun petition to demand an immediate end to the targeting of the Union [...]
Addameer: Concern mounts for the life of Akram Rikhawi on his 85th day of hunger strike
10 months ago
http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=494 An independent doctor from PHR-IL visited Akram Rikhawi yesterday and an Addameer lawyer visited him today, along with Samer Al-Barq and Hassan Safadi. Samer and Hassan are still denied access to independent doctors. Joint Press Release, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Take Action: Demand freedom for Akram [...]
