Tag: Administrative Detention

  • Concern mounts for three remaining hunger strikers

    30 July 2012 | Addameer, Al Haq, PHR-Israel Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) are gravely concerned for the life and health of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel. Of utmost concern is the health and life of administrative detainees Samer Al-Barq, today on…

  • 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 of my stomach as I thought about how the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day would…

  • Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership

    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 world…. We have entered a stage of legendary and draining human struggle, where we face…

  • Thaer Halahleh: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me”

    13 May 2012  “My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people…

  • Balata Refugee Camp: The toll of human rights violations and imprisonment

    by Alex 9 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The 9th May marks the 22nd day of the Palestinian prisoners mass hunger strike. Today as with every day, the prisoners’ families and friends met at Nablus Prisoners’ tent in a show of solidarity, paying respect to their sons, brothers, daughters and sisters suffering…