Tag: Prisoner
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Gaza rallies in support of critically ill prisoner
9th February 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Sit-ins to support Palestinian prisoners — held every week since 1995 in the courtyard of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza office — have recently been followed by rallies outside for Ibrahim Bitar, a sick detainee in Israel’s Nafha prison. “We’ve garnered internal support for my…
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In Gaza, remembering the sick Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails
2nd February 2014 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Sil | Gaza, Occupied Palestine At this week’s Gaza sit-in in solidarity with political prisoners in Israeli jails, the focus was on the sick prisoners. The Palestinian political prisoners in need of medical care number about 1,000, and the lives of many are in danger because they are often denied…
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Who Profits report: Corporations profit from Israeli prisons
26th January 2014 | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Who Profits released the following report on the involvement of Israeli and multinational corporations in the Israeli prison system: On December 2013, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) responded to a freedom of information request by Who Profits, which was submitted three months earlier, regarding twenty-two corporations that provide services…
