Tag: Prisoner Hunger Strike

  • 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…

  • The Battle of Empty Stomachs: Khader Adnan highlights the consolation of solidarity

    The Battle of Empty Stomachs: Khader Adnan highlights the consolation of solidarity

    by Sylvia 24 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 17th of April, Palestinian political prisoners launched a mass hunger strike against the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) dismissal of the Fourth Geneva Convention and basic international law. The call for action comes on Palestinian Prisoners Day after a wave of high-profile hunger…