1st June 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Baroness Catherine Ashton High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice-President of the European Commission 242, rue de la Loi B-1049 ...
Read More »Joint statement: solidarity groups call on Israel to stop administrative detention
25th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service, Christian Peacemakers Team, International Solidarity Movement, | Occupied Palestine In support of Palestinian ‘administrative detainees’ on open-end hunger strike Over one hundred and twenty five Palestinian prisoners (ninety of whom are administrative ...
Read More »Update on Hunger Strikes: Administrative Detainees put in Solitary Confinement, Denied Salt Supplements
7th May 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine The latest wave of mass hunger strikes continue for the 14th day as Palestinian prisoners demand the end of the policy of administrative detention. Administrative detention is ...
Read More »Mass Hunger-Strike Launched by Palestinian ‘Administrative Detainees’
24th April 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association can confirm the launch of a mass open-ended hunger strike involving over 100 Palestinian political detainees. All those involved are ...
Read More »Seven prisoners continue their hunger strikes despite increasing punitive measures
19th February 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Seven Palestinian prisoners continue their individual hunger strikes as prison conditions worsen. This is the highest number of strikes since September 2013. Earlier this week, Addameer lawyer ...
Read More »Wife of kidnapped Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi holds Gaza press conference
27th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Yesterday Veronika Abu Sisi, the wife of Palestinian electrical engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, spoke with media and supporters in the Gaza Strip to denounce the international kidnapping, summary ...
Read More »Israel bars children over eight from visiting fathers in prison
15th June 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine On 20 May, Obeida Shamali visited his father, Ahmad Abd Alraheem Shamali, in Israel’s Nafha prison. It was the first time they had seen each other since Israeli ...
Read More »What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions
by Lina Al Saafin 15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit ...
Read More »Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike
by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The ...
Read More »Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership
by The Central Committee of the Leadership of the Strike 13 May 2012 | Samidoun We have only two options: to achieve all of our demands, or to die Free Palestinian people, masses of our nation, free people of the ...
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