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Posts Tagged ‘political prisoners’

Palestinian MPs and Cabinet members STILL in Israeli jails after illegal abduction

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance

Israel has many thousands of Palestinian political prisoners locked up in their jails. Men, women, even children are deprived of their freedom and forced to live in a cage precisely because of their love of justice and freedom. Among these prisoners are 21 Palestinian Members of Parliament (Palestinian Legislative Council) and 8 Cabinet Ministers. Shocking but [...]

cartoon of the day

By Carlos Latuff • Jul 15th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day

Hussin Ramadan – For Humanity

By Guest Post • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Palestinians identify with one another through not only our mutual identity, but also through our common experiences, for example, our situation under occupation, our economic conditions, our lives as refugees, the lives and conditions of our prisoners. When we go to sleep, we are unable to do so like ‘normal people’, undisturbed by these realities. We [...]

The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat, a man, and a representative of all illegally held Political Prisoners

By Guest Post • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Today, July 8, 2009, the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat sent the below letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, demanding that he and the United Nations uphold their responsibilities to protect the rights of Palestinian prisoners and secure their freedom. Well over 400 international organizations and individuals (see below for [...]

Please sign letter to the UN: Free Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian political prisoners

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Zionism

We are asking for your endorsement and that of your organization to the below letter, inspired by the hunger strike of imprisoned Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa'adat, calling upon United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to uphold his responsibilities and take action to protect the rights, health and lives of Palestinian prisoners and demand the freedom [...]

Administrative Detentions: a report from the Israeli Association for Palestinian Prisoners

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

in the picture, peace and human rights activist Mousa Abu-Maria after he was hit by an IDF bullet during a peaceful demonstration. He is now under "Administrative Detention".
The Case of Dr. Ghassan Khaled, the law faculty of Al Najjah University, Nablus
Administrative detention is detention without charge or trial, and without informing the detainees or their [...]

Release 11.000 Palestinians in Israeli jails!!! Please sign this petition

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Grassroots Activism, Petitions, Resistance

please sign and support these political prisoners!
Disgrace for Democracy, Israel is detaining right now 40% of the Palestinian MPs who represent the people
Sponsored by:
Iqbal Tamimi Creator of Palestinian Mothers Network
Disgrace for Democracy: 51 Palestinian MPs and Ministers are Detained in Israeli prisons along with 11.870 Palestinian citizens
A serious crime and new political slap in [...]