Home Blog Page 331

Protest in Milan demands cancellation of Giro d’Italia launch in occupied Palestine

On 29 November 2017 in the late afternoon, the Coordinamento Lombardo per la Palestina, a group that includes Fronte Palestina, BDS Milan , Salaam Ragazzi dell’Olivo Milano and other organizations and individuals committed to supporting the Palestinian struggle, organized a protest outside the entrance of RAI Television Studios (the Public Italian broadcasting company) to protest during the official presentation of the world-class cycling event Giro d’Italia. The Giro d’Italia is subject to international protests and an escalating Palestinian, Italian and international campaign to move the race, which has been scheduled to start in occupied Jerusalem under the auspices of the Israeli occupation.

The rally started at 5pm during a working day and despite the race officials’ strategic choice of time and place (narrow dark street),  as most of protesters were at work and could not join the rally, there were about 40 people carrying speakers, signs, and banners loudly and clearly denouncing the holding of the “Big Start” of the 2018 race in Israel. This action by the Giro d’Italia serves not only to cover up Israel’s military occupation and racist policies against Palestinians, it will also exacerbate Israel’s sense of impunity and encourage it to continue denying the Palestinian people their UN-stipulated right.

Most recently, Giro d’Italia further conceded to Israeli control after Israel officially threatened to block financial aid to Giro d’italia if they will not remove from its web site and official social media channels the word “West Jerusalem“, claiming that even occupied East Jerusalem is part of Israel and as its unified capital. Now, Giro d’Italia has even removed the word “West” so the official world class cycling event will start in “Jerusalem,” with no designation of its occupation.

Events, actions and protests are continuing throughout Italy, with events on Saturday in Milan as well as in other Italian cities. The events included a bike race rally across Milan streets with Palestinian flags banners and speakers.  Protesters against the Giro d’Italia’s involvement with Israeli occupation also have highlighted the exclusion of Leila Khaled from Italy as part of the ongoing collaboration of the Italian government with the Israeli occupation and the Zionist movement and their attempt to silence Palestinian organizing in Italy.

Palestinian prisoner Khawaja continues hunger strike against administrative detention

Palestinian prisoner Salah Khawaja is on his 21st day of hunger strike after his imprisonment without charge or trial was renewed. Khawaja, from the village of Nil’in, has been on strike since his administrative detention order was suddenly renewed one day before he was scheduled for release from Israeli prison.

Palestinian lawyer Karim Ajwa reported that fellow Palestinian prisoner Ali Barghouthi, 45, suspended his own hunger strike on Saturday, 2 December after prison officials promised to conduct health tests prescribed for him, including a heart scan, no later than two weeks from the suspension of his strike. From the village of Abboud near Ramallah, he is serving a life sentence for resisting the occupation with Fateh and has been imprisoned since April 2004.

Khawaja was seized by Israeli occupation forces on 23 July 2017 and ordered to four months in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. These detention orders are indefinitely renewable; Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed under administrative detention orders. Khawaja is one of over 450 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial and a total of nearly 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners. Over the years, he has spent nearly 12 years in Israeli prisons through multiple arrests and detentions.

He is carrying out his hunger strike despite his own deteriorating health. He walks slowly and has lost significant weight, and he suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and poor vision in his left eye.

Samidoun organizers in New York City will protest outside Best Buy electronics store in Union Square in Manhattan on Monday, 4 December in solidarity with Khawaja and all Palestinian prisoners. They will also work to build the boycott campaign against HP (Hewlett-Packard) due to the corporation’s involvement in and contracts with Israeli occupation forces, including the Israel prison service and the Israeli occupation navy imposing a siege on Gaza.

Israeli occupation orders 48 more Palestinians jailed without charge or trial

Israeli occupation forces have issued 48 administrative detention orders for the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial between 16 and 30 November. This follows on 24 more administrative detention orders issued in the first two weeks of the month.

Palestinian lawyer Mahmoud al-Halabi said on Sunday, 3 December that 15 of the orders were newly issued while the remainder were renewals of the orders against Palestinians who had already spent years or months detained without charge or trial.

Administrative detention orders are used to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial. Issued for one to six months at a time, these orders are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed under administrative detention. There are over 450 Palestinians out of a total of over 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.

Among the orders issued were those against former long-term hunger striker Ayman al-Tabeesh, also ordered held in isolation. He has been imprisoned without charge or trial since August 2016. An order was also renewed against Salah al-Khawaja, of the village of Nil’in, one day before he was to be released. Khawaja has now been on hunger strike for the past 21 days against his imprisonment without charge or trial.

The orders were issued against the following Palestinian prisoners:

1. Wa’ad Arafat Hadmi, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
2. Musa Ahmad Bulbul, Jenin, 4 months, extension
3. Alaa Hassan Abu Abi, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
4. Shaher Jamil al-Hih, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
5. Thaer Jihad Abu Sundus, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
6. Ayman Mohammed Abu Eid, Jerusalem, 4 months, extension
7. Yahya Hani Jaddu, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
8. Jamal Ibrahim Maslamani, Tubas, 4 months, extension
9. Abdel-Rahman Shawki Shuaibat, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
10. Ahmad Khader Hroub, al-Khalil, 2 months, extension
11. Ismail Taleb al-Natah, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
12. Salah Mohammed al-Khawaja, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
13. Hamouda Akram Jaber, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
14. Mohammed Hashem Khader, Qalqilya, 4 months, extension
15. Abdel-Muhsin Ali Zamara, al-Khalil, 2 months, extension
16. Shaker Hasan Amara, Jericho, 4 months, extension
17. Issa al-Sanadiya, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
18. Bajis Khalil Nakhleh, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
19. Hussam Omar Abu Khalifa, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
20. Ahmad Awad Srour, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
21. Majdi Mohammed Abu Fara, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
22. Raed Abed al-Admu al-Amda, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
23. Mahmod Jibril Shehadeh Makhamra, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
24. Ahmad Mohammed Abu Nasr, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
25. Jaafar Abdallah Arouj, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
26. Mahmoud Abdel-Halim Talahmeh, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
27. Mohammed Adnan Maliki, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
28. Suhaib Mohammed Qafisha, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
29. Nael Jihad Abu al-Asal, Jericho, 4 months, extension
30. Taqi al-Din Abdel-Fattah Fahajan, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
31. Mohammed Monjed Khalaf, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
32. Ahmad Musa al-Khalayleh, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
33. Ibrahim Naji al-Keilani, Jenin, 6 months, new order
34. Ahmad Azmi Hanatsheh, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
35. Mohammed Nazmi Mohammed Jamal, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
36. Alaa Musa Za’ik, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
37. Yousef Abdel-Malik Saadi, Jenin, 3 months, extension
38. Mahmoud Abdallah Atwan, Bethlehem, 3 months, extension
39. Karam Nasr Abed Rabbo, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
40. Hammad Ahmad Abu Maria, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
41. Yousef Ismail Hamdan, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
42. Ayman Ali al-Tabeesh, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
43. Jawad Mohammed Jabari, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
44. Nidal Mohammed Abu Sneineh, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
45. Nasim Fadl al-Rifai, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
46. Ayman Rouhi al-Atrash, al-Khalil, 3 months, extension
47. Mahmoud Yousef Safadi, Nablus, 3 months, new order

Five Palestinian fishers seized in the Gaza sea by Israeli occupation navy

Photo: Rosa Schiano, January 2012

The ongoing attack on Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza by Israeli occupation naval forces continued on Sunday, 3 December as they attaccked a fishing boat and seized five Palestinian fishers, confiscating the boat, said Zakaria Bakr, head of the union of fishers’ committees in Gaza.

The five detained fishers are Sami Abu al-Sadiq, Ahmad Abu al-Sadiq, Sayyid al-Halabi, Ayman Tolbeh and Ehab Tolbeh.  Their boat was also taken to the Israeli occupation port of Ashdod.

According to statistics from the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, two fishermen were killed, 10 fishermen had been wounded and at least 32 have been arrested by Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of 2017; 11 fishing boats were confiscated and fishers were fired upon over 142 times. These attacks on Palestinian fishery are part of a comprehensive physical, military and economic war against the entire Palestinian people and their ability to sustain their economy and independent, indigenous agriculture and fishery.

Gaza has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, and under a tight and brutal siege since 2006, denying people and goods access and movement from the small coastal strip, one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Over 70% of the people of Gaza are refugees who have lived in Gaza since the 1948 Nakba – the occupation and ethnic cleansing of most of Palestine. The naval closure imposed on Gaza and the cordoning off of the fishing zone has created massive poverty in Gaza’s once-wealthy fishing industry, upon which 70,000 Palestinians rely. Boats are rarely returned to their Palestinian owners after being confiscated by the occupation navy. Palestinian fishermen have repeatedly been shot by gunboats, causing death and serious and sometimes life-altering injuries, and further contributing to economic and social devastation.

HP, the same corporation that sells database services to the Israeli prison system and the military occupation checkpoint network, also administers the IT system of the Israeli Navy that enforces the naval blockade of Gaza. It is subject to a global campaign for boycott.

 

11 December, Brussels: Netanyahu Not Welcome! Demonstration

Monday, 11 December
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
14 Avenue de la Joyeuse Entree
Brussels, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/184835458761008/

EN:

This December 11, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of 28 member states of the European Union will meet in Brussels.  A notorious guest will guest will also be present among the European ministers: the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu!
War criminals are not welcome in Brussels!

FR :
Le 11 décembre prochain, les ministres des Affaires étrangères des 28 pays membres de l’Union européenne se réuniront à Bruxelles. Un invité de marque sera également présent parmi les ministres européens : le premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou !
Les criminels de guerre ne sont pas les bienvenus à Bruxelles !

! Informations supplémentaires à venir !

NL:
Zeer binnenkort, op 11 december zullen de ministers van buitenlandse zaken van de 28 lidstaten van de Europese Unie samenkomen in Brussel. En bij de genodigden zal deze keer ook de Eerste minister van Israël zijn Benjamin Netanyahu!
Oorlogsmisdadigers zijn niet welkom in Brussel !
Meer info volgt nog.

Organisaties die mee oproepen: (lijst wordt nog aangevuld)

Liste des premiers signataires :

Association belgo-palestinienne Abp Asbl
Palestina Solidariteit
ECCP – European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine
Plate-forme Charleroi Palestine
Antwerp For Palestine
Mouvement Ouvrier Chrétien
Mouvement Présence et Action Culturelles
Plateforme Watermael-Boitsfort Palestine
Union des Progressistes Juifs de Belgique – UPJB
La Coordination Paix Juste au Proche – Orient Brabant Wallon
ViaVelo Palestina
Solidarité Socialiste
Checkpoint Singers
Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
Bruxelles Panthères
Intal Globalize Solidarity
M3M Médecine pour le Tiers Monde / G3W
Union des femmes Palestiniennes de Belgique et au Luxembourg
Comac, (Mouvement étudiant du PTB – PVDA studentenbeweging)”
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Vrede vzw
écolo j
PJPO Mazrine

4 December, NYC: Protest to free Salah al-Khawaja and Stop HP

Monday, 4 December
5:00 pm
Best Buy – Union Square
52 E. 14th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/395163114236693/

Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace

On Friday, Salah al-Khawaja, of the village of Ni’lin in Ramallah, will reach his 26th consecutive day refusing food in protest of his “administrative detention,” imprisonment without charge or trial. He launched his hunger strike in protest of the renewal of his administrative detention order only one day before his scheduled release.

Al-Khawaja was seized by Israeli occupation forces on July 23, 2017 and ordered to four months in “administrative detention,” imprisonment without charge or trial. These detention orders are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed under administrative detention orders ( samidoun.net/2017/12/two-palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-in-israeli-prisons).

Stand with al-Khawaja to demand that Israel release him, 462 other administrative detainees and all 6,198 Palestinian political prisoners (addameer.org/statistics), and that Hewlett Packard companies end their contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements (investigate.afsc.org/company/hp-incinvestigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise,investigate.afsc.org/company/dxc-technology-company).

Help build a growing international campaign to boycott HP (bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp) over the companies’ support for Israeli crimes.

Support the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

100 days of arbitrary detention: 1,000 elected officials join call to free Salah Hamouri

30 November marked the 100th day of imprisonment without charge or trial for Salah Hamouri, the French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights advocate jailed in Israeli prisons. Hamouri is supported by a growing campaign throughout France; as the 100th day of his imprisonment was marked, the campaign for his support announced that 1,000 French elected officials and 56 Members of European Parliament had signed on to support Hamouri’s release.

Town councils throughout France have signed on to a call for Hamouri’s release and events have been organized throughout the country to demand that the French government take an active role in advocating for his immediate release. He has been jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention since 23 August 2017.

While the campaign to support Hamouri, led by his wife Elsa Lefort – who herself has been banned by the Israeli occupation for 10 years after returning to Palestine with a valid visa alongside her husband while over six months pregnant and expelled after several days detained in Ben-Gurion airport – has achieved significant support by a growing number of town councils, elected officials and within the French National Assembly, the Macron government continues to avoid firm demands for Hamouri’s release.

The French government expressed its “dissatisfaction” with administrative detention as it violates the right to a fair trial and “requested” an end to Hamouri’s detention, but Macron has not taken serious action to demand Hamouri’s freedom, even as he plans a visit with Israeli prime minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris in early December.

Of course, this comes as no surprise given that France continues to imprison Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Lebanese Communist struggler for Palestine jailed for over 33 years, despite his eligibility for parole since 1999, has continued to persecute BDS activists struggling for justice in Palestine, and continues to imprison Canadian professor Hassan Diab on baseless charges despite a severe lack of evidence and repeated decisions by investigating judges for his release.

However, the popular movement to support Hamouri has grown dramatically as evidenced by the over 1,000 elected officials supporting Hamouri and the numerous village, town and city councils officially standing for his release. The 100th day of his imprisonment is being marked with multiple events across France, including a protest on 2 December in Paris and upcoming events in Quimper and Bourg-en-Bresse, among others.

Take Action:

1. Sign the appeal to support Salah Hamouri at http://libertepoursalah.fr

2. Organize an action, event or activity to mark the 100th day of Salah Hamouri’s detention and demand his immediate freedom. Raise his case at events and actions for Palestine.

3. Like and share the Facebook page for Salah Hamouri, which will be regularly updated with news and actions to demand Salah’s freedom: https://www.facebook.com/freesalahhamouri/

Statement of European Parliamentarians for Salah Hamouri:

We, Members of the European Parliament from various opinions, Protest against the unfair treatment of Salah Hamouri a young French citizen, lawyer since August 2017, arrested on August 23 and now in administrative detention in the Israeli prison of Al Naqab based on an allegedly secret file. Call the Israeli authorities to immediately release him. Call on the European institutions to intervene with the Israeli government to put an end to this injustice, in the name of the values that underpin the Européen Union.

  • Patrick Le Hyaric – Vice-président GUE/NGL ; membre de la délégation du parlement européen chargé des relations avec La Palestine (France – GUE/NGL)
  • Philippe Lamberts – Coprésident VERTS/ALE (Belgique – GREENS/ALE)
  • Gabi Zimmer – Présidente du groupe de la Gauche unitaire européenne/Gauche verte nordique (Allemagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Tania González Peñas – Vice-présidente GUE/NGL (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Maria Arena – (Belgique – S&D)
  • Paloma López Bermejo – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Bart Staes – (Belgique – GREENS/ALE)
  • Nikolaos Chountis – (Grèce – GUEN/NGL)
  • Miguel Viegas – (Portugal – GUE/NGL)
  • António Marinho e Pinto – Vice-président Délégation Brésil (Portugal -ALDE)
  • Eleonora Forenza – Vice-présidente Délégation Chili (Italie – GUE/NGL)
  • Pascal Durand – Vice-président VERTS/ALE (France – GREENS/ALE)
  • Angela Vallina – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Karima Delli – Présidente Commission des transports et du tourisme (France -GREENS/ALE)
  • Sofia Sakorafa – Présidente Délégation pour les relations avec les pays d’Amérique centrale (Grèce – GUE/NGL)
  • Ernest Urtasun – Vice-président Assemblée EUROLAT (Espagne -GREENS/ALE)
  • Younous Omarjee – Vice-président Commission du développement régional (France -GUE/NGL)
  • Javier Nart – Vice-président ALDE – Vice-président Assemblée paritaire ACPUE (Espagne – ALDE)
  • Marina Albiol – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Edouard Martin – (France – S&D)
  • Neoklis Sylikiotis – Président Délégation Palestine – Vice-président GUE/NGL- Président délégation Palestine (Chypre – GUE/NGL)
  • Margrete Auken – Vice-présidente Délégation Palestine (Danemark – GREENS/ALE)
  • Lola Sanchez Caldentey – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Michèle Rivasi – Vice-présidente Assemblée paritaire ACP-UE (France -GREENS/ALE)
  • Josu Juaristi – (Pays Basque – GUE/NGL)
  • Ivo Vajgl – (Slovénie – ALDE)
  • Joao Ferreira – (Portugal – GUE/NGL)
  • Sergio Cofferati – (Italie – S&D)
  • Marie-Pierre Vieu – (France – GUE/NGL)
  • Jean-Marie Cavada – Vice-président Commission des affaires juridiques (France – ALDE)
  • Marc Tarabella – Vice-président Délégation pour les relations avec les pays de l’Asie du Sud-Est et l’Association des nations de l’Asie du Sud-Est (Belgique – S&D)
  • Marie-Christine Vergiat – (France – GUE/NGL)
  • Josep María Terricabras – Vice-président Verts/ALE (Espagne – GREENS/ALE)
  • Barbara Spinelli – Vice-présidente Commission des affaires constitutionnelles (Italie – GUE/NGL)
  • Yannick Jadot – Vice-président Commission du commerce international (France – GREENS/ALE)
  • Javier Couso Permuy – Vice-président Commission des affaires étrangères – Vice-président délégation pour les relations avec l’Iraq (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Eva Joly – Vice-présidente Commission d’enquête chargée d’examiner les allégations d’infraction et de mauvaise administration dans l’application du droit de l’Union en matière de blanchiment de capitaux, d’évasion fiscale et de fraude fiscale (PANA) – Vice-présidente Délégation pour les relations avec l’Afghanistan (France – GREENS/ALE)
  • Marisa Matias – Présidente Délégation pour les relations avec les pays du Mashrek (Portugal – GUE/NGL)
  • José Bové – (France – GRENS/ALE)
  • Lidia Senra – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Patricia Lalonde – (France – ALDE)
  • Martina Anderson – (Irlande du Nord – GUE/NGL)
  • Julie Ward – (Royaume Uni – S&D)
  • Matt Carthy – (Irlande – GUE/NGL)
  • Ana Maria Gomes – Vice-présidente Commission d’enquête chargée d’examiner les allégations d’infraction et de mauvaise administration dans l’application du droit de l’Union en matière de blanchiment de capitaux, d’évasion fiscale et de fraude fiscale (PANA) – (Portugal – S&D)
  • Lynn Boylan – (Irlande – GUE/NGL)
  • Hilde Vautmans – (Belgique -ALDE)
  • Liadh Ní Riada – (Irlande – GUE/NGL)
  • Keith Taylor – (Royaume Uni – GREENS)
  • Joao Pimenta – Vice-président Commission des droits de la femme et de l’égalité des genres – Vice-président Délégation à l’Assemblée parlementaire euro-latinoaméricaine – (Portugal (GUE/NGL)
  • Miguel Urbán (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Xabier Benito Ziluaga – Vice-président Délégation pour les relations avec le Mercosur – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Estefanía Torres Martínez – (Espagne – GUE/NGL)
  • Merja Kyllönen – (Finlande – GUE/NGL)
  • Curzio Maltese – (Italie – GUE/NGL)
  • Stelios Kouloglou – (Grèce – GUE/NGL)
  • Jozo RADOŠ (Croatia – ALDE)

Two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons

There are currently two Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike. Ali Barghouthi is on hunger strike for the fourth day; he launched his strike on 28 November in protest of the delay in medical treatment at the Ashkelon prison clinic. Barghouthi has been prescribed to receive a heart test and a CT scan, but the prison clinic has been delaying for over two months. This means that he has received no diagnosis for his ongoing health problems; he is suffering from chest pain and feels tiredness and pain when walking or moving.

Barghouthi, 45, is from the village of Abboud west of Ramallah. He is serving a life sentence for resisting the Israeli occupation as part of the Fateh movement and has been jailed since April 2004.

He joins the ongoing hunger strike of Salah al-Khawaja of the village of Ni’lin in Ramallah, who has been refusing food for 19 days consecutively in protest of his administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. He launched his hunger strike in protest of the renewal of his administrative detention order only one day before his scheduled release.

Khawaja was seized by Israeli occupation forces on 23 July 2017 and ordered to four months in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. These detention orders are indefinitely renewable; Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed under administrative detention orders. Khawaja is one of over 450 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial and a total of nearly 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners. Over the years, he has spent nearly 12 years in Israeli prisons through multiple arrests and detentions.

He is carrying out his hunger strike despite his own deteriorating health. He walks slowly and has lost significant weight, and he suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and poor vision in his left eye.

Palestinian former hunger striker jailed without charge ordered into isolation by Israeli occupation

Ayman al-Tabeesh

Palestinian prisoner and former long-term hunger striker Ayman al-Tabeesh, 37, imprisoned without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation, has been ordered into isolation on the pretext of being a “security threat.” Al-Tabeesh, from the village of Dura near al-Khalil, has been imprisoned since 2 August 2016 with no charges and no trial on the basis of so-called “secret evidence.”

He has spent nearly 13 years in total in Israeli prisons through multiple re-arrests and has engaged in two long-term hunger strikes to demand his freedom. On Wednesday, 29 November, he was transferred from the Ofer prison to the Ohli Kedar isolation cells.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society emphasized that the Israeli occupation intelligence has a policy of isolation and unilaterally isolates many prisoners each year under the pretext of “secret evidence,” the same type of secret file that is used to jail al-Tabeesh. He is one of over 450 Palestinians jailed under administrative detention orders and 6,200 total Palestinian prisoners. In some cases, isolation orders are extended for years without any meaningful reason given to the detained person or their lawyer.

6 December, Bourg-en-Bresse: Public Meeting to Support Salah Hamouri

Wednesday, 6 December
8:00 pm
21 A Allee de Challes
Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/185962035301481/

Join the committee to support Salah Hamouri in Bourg-en-Bresse for an event with Jean-Claude Lefort, honorary deputy and the father-in-law of Salah Hamouri, arbitrarily imprisoned French-Palestinian lawyer.