Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a network of organizers and activists, based in North America, working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom. We work to raise awareness and provide resources about Palestinian political prisoners, their conditions, their demands, and their work for freedom for themselves, their fellow prisoners, and their homeland. We also work to organize campaigns to make political change and advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights and freedoms. Learn more....
Urgent Action Alert: Defend Addameer and Raided Palestinian Grassroots and Civil Society Institutions!
5 months ago
At 3 a.m. on December 11, Israeli occupation forces raided the offices of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, and the Palestinian NGO Network. Click here to take action to defend human rights defenders! The offices were ransacked, their doors broken in, their computers and hard drives confiscated [...]
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 [...]
Addameer: Health of Hunger Strikers Continues to Deteriorate as Strike Escalates
6 months ago
Ramallah, 13 November 2012 – Addameer is deeply concerned for the lives of three hunger strikers and the health of one former hunger striker who are held in Israeli prisons. Ayman Sharawna has been on an open hunger strike since 1 July 2012; today marks his 136th day of striking. Addameer lawyer Fares Ziad recently [...]
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 [...]
Action Alert: Free human rights defender Ayman Nasser!
6 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!
6 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 [...]
Addameer researcher arrested and detained by Israel in latest attack on Palestinian Civil Society
7 months ago
Ramallah, 15 October 2012 – Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association are outraged by this morning’s arrest its staff member Ayman Nasser. Ayman, a researcher, has been working with Addameer for almost five years. At 1.00am this morning a large number of Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) raided his home in the village of Safa, [...]
Health crises for Sharawna, Issawi demand urgent action
7 months ago
Via PNN On Monday 8th October, Lawyers of Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees affairs, Fadi Obeidat and Rami al-Alami said that the health condition of the two hunger strike prisoners is very critical and calls for immediate and quick intervention to save their lives. The two lawyers who visited the two prisoners in Nafha and [...]
Sarsak will travel to Spain at the invitation of BDS Catalunya, rejects normalization
7 months ago
GAZA, PALESTINE, September 24 – Following a weekly sit-in by families of Palestinian detainees held by Israel, national football player and former detainee and hunger-striker Mahmoud Sarsak held a press conference outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s Gaza Strip headquarters to announce that he would attend a separate FC Barcelona game at [...]
“I will not withdraw from the battle for freedom”: The Story of Samer Issawi by Malaka Mohammed