Tag: Prisoner
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Palestinian hunger strikers insist on gaining their freedom even if the cost is their lives
5 December 2012 | Addameer Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association expresses its deep concern for the health and lives of five Palestinian political prisoners that are on hunger strike to protest their unjust detention in Israeli Occupation’s prisons. The five current hunger strikers are: Ayman Sharawna (158 days), Samer Al-Issawi (127 days), Oday…
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Update: ‘They are not the same as you’ – detention continues for Kufr Qaddoum prisoners
By Ben Greene, Ellie Marton, and Anna Conroy 17 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday 15th October, Palestinian political prisoners Majd and Abdulateef Obeid appeared before a military court for a third time. Their lawyer argued that, as four international activists arrested at the same time with the same evidence had…
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Letter from International Activist Under House Arrest in Israel Asking for Support and Solidarity
September 25, 2012 Dear Friends of Palestine, I am writing to you from an apartment in Tel Aviv where I am under house arrest for standing in solidarity with Palestinians fighting a twelve-year road closure in their West Bank town of Kufr Qeddoum. This weekend, I spent forty eight hours in Israeli prisons. I was…
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Help bring Jalaal home
September 11, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank What would you do if 30 men armed with sticks and guns stormed into your home beat your little brothers and began beating your mother and ripping her clothes? On August 28 this happened to sixteen year old Jalaal Daraghmah. He did his best to protect…
