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Action Alert: Free human rights defender Ayman Nasser!
7 months ago
One year after the historic prisoner exchange in which 1,000 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli prisons, concluding a 14-day mass hunger strike in the occupation prisons, Palestinian prisoners continue under siege. Human rights defender Ayman Nasser of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association was seized by Israeli occupation forces on October 15, while [...]
Take Action: Act now for Ayman Sharawna, Samer al-Issawi and Samer al-Barq!
7 months ago
On October 18, while Palestinian human rights defender Ayman Nasser‘s detention was being extended, and on the anniversary of his own release in the historic prisoners exchange of 2012, hunger striker Ayman Sharawna, who is now on his 114th day of hunger strike, was transferred to solitary confinement in Ramle prison. Samer al-Issawi, also re-arrested [...]
Take Action: Demand Freedom for Palestinians Arrested by the PA!
8 months ago
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, as Palestinian hunger strikers Samer al-Barq, Hassan Safadi and Ayman Sharawna struggle for their lives within Israeli prisons, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank launched a campaign of arrests throughout the area, rounding up 60 political activists, including youth organizers, journalists, writers and former political prisoners. The arrest total [...]
Acción Urgente: ¡Actúen ahora para salvar las vidas de Samer al-Barq, Hassan Safadi y Ayman Sharawna!
8 months ago
Thank you to Scott Campbell of Angry White Kid for this translation, also available at his blog: [Original en inglés] Samer al-Barq ya ha estado en huelga de hambre durante 111 días, además de los de 30 días que pasó anteriormente en la huelga de hambre masiva del abril-mayo 2012. Ahora es el preso que [...]
Families of Palestinian detainees call for urgent actions to support hunger strikers
8 months ago
Press release from the Ministry of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs: GAZA, PALESTINE, September 11 – The families of Palestinians detained by Israel called for a week of urgent actions to support a mass hunger strike on 13 September, as well as ongoing hunger strikes by individual detainees. Thousands of detainees will participate in a mass [...]
Urgent alert: Act now to save the lives of Samer al-Barq, Hassan Safadi and Ayman Sharawna!
8 months ago
This alert is now available here in Spanish. Thank you to Scott Campbell of Angry White Kid for this translation, also available at his blog: Samer al-Barq has now been on hunger strike for 105 days, in addition to 30 days prior on hunger strike with the mass prisoners’ hunger strike in April-May 2012, and is now the longest [...]
August 28 – Vancouver: The Palestinian Struggle Today: Political Developments and New Challenges
9 months ago
Palestinian Struggle Today: Political Developments and New Challenges A presentation and open discussion with Khaled Barakat Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:00 pm Room 1315, SFU Harbour Centre 515 W. Hastings St, Vancouver Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/453033221394898/ Among Palestinians and their allies, there is much discussion of division and disunity in the Palestinian liberation struggle, and even questions [...]
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 [...]
95 Days of Hunger Strike: Act Now to Save Akram al-Rikhawi’s life!
10 months ago
Akram al-Rikhawi has now been on hunger strike for 95 days. He is the longest serving hunger striker anywhere in the world. He is suffering from numerous medical conditions, including diabetes, asthma, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, glaucoma, kidney problems and immune deficiency. Addameer reports that “Prior to his arrest, Akram received injections of Kenacort to treat his asthma, but [...]
DCI: Urgent Appeal for Children in Solitary Confinement
10 months ago
The following urgent appeal comes from Defence for Children International – Palestine: Today, DCI re-released an Urgent Appeal calling for an end to the practice of placing Palestinian children in solitary confinement. DCI first issued the appeal in January after documenting 50 cases of children who reported being held in isolation in Israeli detention facilities since 2008. [...]
