Tag: Prisoner Hunger Strike

  • Families of Palestinian detainees call for urgent actions to support hunger strikers

    September 11, 2012 | Ministry of Detainees’ and Ex-detainees’ Affairs For immediate release  For more information: Doaa Abu Amer 0792599765048 doa.ah1985@gmail.com   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…

  • Imminent danger to lives of hunger strikers Samer Al-Barq and Hassan Safadi

    By Addameer, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL)   3 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank   Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) fear for the lives of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel. Of utmost concern are the health conditions…

  • 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…

  • Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes

    By Richard Falk 9 July 2012 | Richard Falk WordPress The persistence of Palestinian hunger strikes shocks me for two reasons: that these extreme expressions of moral freedom alert all who choose to expose their consciousness to such realities of the severely abusive arrest, detention, and interrogation procedures that many Palestinians living under Israeli occupation…

  • The war on Palestinian soccer: Free Mahmoud Sarsak

    By Ramzy Baroud 4 June 2012 | Press TV: Viewpoints On June 3, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 80 days of a grueling hunger-strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates had called off their own 28-day hunger strike weeks ago. Although the story of Palestinian…