Twenty more administrative detention orders issued to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial

27 August 2017

The Israeli military court at Ofer issued 20 more administrative detention orders for the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial, reported the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission on Thursday, 24 August, bringing the number of such orders issued in August so far to 104.

Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable and issued on the basis of ‘secret evidence’, making them nearly impossible to challenge on legal grounds. Palestinian prisoners have spent years at a time jailed under administrative detention orders.

There are currently over 500 Palestinians out of nearly 6,200 total Palestinian prisoners jailed by the Israeli occupation under administrative detention orders, including a number of well-known ativists, political leaders and members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

The new orders were issued against the following prisoners:

1. Emad Hammad, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
2. Adham Ajlouni, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
3. Nael Abu al-Asal, Jericho, 4 months, extension
4. Musab Hindi, Nablus, 6 months, extension
5. Mohammed Munther, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
6. Yousef Tartir, Nablus, 4 months, extension
7. Omar al-Hih, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
8. Ziad Shahatit, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
9. Yousef Nassar, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
10. Abdel-Aziz Hamideh, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
11. Imad Mutran, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
12. Sari Abu Alia, Ramallah, 3 months, extension
13. Mohammed Jamal Hamideh, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
14. Mohammed Ahmed Hamideh, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
15. Abdallah Samir Hamideh, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
16. Shadi Abu Aker, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
17. Imad Jadallah, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
18. Mahmoud Ayyad, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
19. Ghaith Attiyeh, Tulkarem, 3 months, extension
20. Mahmoud Shabaneh, al-Khalil, 3 months, extension

Salah Hamouri in court on Sunday – Act Now to Demand His Freedom

26 August 2017

French-Palestinian activist and human rights defender Salah Hamouri was seized by Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday, 23 August. A former prisoner, Hamouri is a legal advocate and field researcher for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.

After Hamouri, 32, was seized from his home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kufr Aqab, he was taken to the Moskobiyeh interrogation center in Jerusalem. His detention was then extended until 27 August for further interrogation.

Take action! Demand France act to defend their citizen.

The seizure of Hamouri is only the latest act of repression and intimidation carried out by the Israeli state. After six years in Israeli prison amid an extensive grassroots campaign in France for his freedom, Hamouri pursued studying law in order to advocate for fellow prisoners. Hamouri’s wife was denied entry to and banned from Palestine while pregnant with their child and he has been banned from the West Bank until September 2016 – including in apparent attempts to prevent him from completing his legal studies. Indeed, on 20 August – just days before his arrest – he had just passed the Palestinian bar examination.

He has been an international representative of the Palestinian cause and the prisoners’ struggle, speaking at the World Social Forum in Brazil, large events across France (including the main stage at Fete de l’Humanite) and Israeli Apartheid Week in Belgium in February 2017, among many others.

Organizations and parliamentarians across France are mobilizing to demand Hamouri’s freedom once again and to pressure the French government to take action on this case. While an observer from the French consulate in Jerusalem was present in al-Moskobiyeh court on Wednesday, 23 August, this is not sufficient. The French state must take real action to demand freedom for Salah Hamouri, the Palestinian human rights defender.

Parliamentarians of the French Communist Party (PCF) Pierre Laurent, Jean-Paul Lecoq, Jean-Pierre Bosino, and Alain Bruneel as well as Philippe Poutou, the spokesperson of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) Philippe Poutou and Fronte de Gauche (FG) municipal counselor Madjid Messaoudene have joined organizations including the Association France-Palestine Solidarite, Coup Pour Coup 31, Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine (Belgium), Agence Media-Palestine, Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix, EuroPalestine, Samidoun, League for Human Rights, Comac (Belgium) , the CNT left labor union, and others in demanding Salah Hamouri’s immediate liberation. It is critical to act quickly to intensify the calls on France to act before the court hearing on Sunday.

TAKE ACTION

1. SIGN this petition to French president Emanuel Macron and European officials. Demand that they act now to free Hamouri: https://www.change.org/p/emmanuel-macron-demand-the-immediate-release-of-human-rights-defender-salah-hamouri

2. SIGN this French-language petition to the French government to demand they act for Hamouri’s freedom: http://liberezsalahhamouri.wesign.it/fr

3. SEND an individual message to several offices of the French government demanding action. The text below is provided by the Association France-Palestine Solidarite (AFPS).

Write to:
Consulate General of France in Jerusalem by following this link: https://jerusalem.consulfrance.org/Contactez-nous-par-mail

Ministry of Foreign Affairs at this link: http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/mentions-legales-infos-pratiques/nous-ecrire/ By filling in the form with the subject line “Français de l’étranger” (French abroad)

Presidency of the Republic: http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire-au-president-de-la-republique/

Monsieur le Consul,
ou Monsieur le Ministre des affaires étrangères
ou Monsieur le Président de la République,

Je viens d’apprendre l’arrestation de Salah Hamouri par le message de son épouse Elsa Lefort, retranscrit ci-dessous :

“Salah Hamouri a été arrêté cette nuit à notre domicile de Jérusalem-Est par l’armée d’occupation venue en grand nombre le cueillir dans son sommeil. Comme souvent, les autorités militaires ne donnent aucun motif à cette arrestation et nous n’avons que peu d’informations au sujet de sa détention, il n’a pu contacter personne. Nous demandons à la France d’agir avec conviction pour protéger et obtenir la libération de notre concitoyen qui subit une fois de plus l’arbitraire israélien.”

L’arrestation de notre concitoyen est inadmissible et insupportable. Les autorités françaises ne doivent pas laisser passer une telle infamie.

Je vous demande d’œuvrer dès aujourd’hui, au nom de la France, pour la libération de Monsieur Salah Hamouri.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l’expression de ma haute considération.

English translation:

Dear Consul (or Minister of Foreign Affairs, or President of the Republic)

I have learned of the arrest of Salah Hamouri through the message of his wife, Elsa Lefort, below:

“Salah Hamouri was arrested last night at our home in East Jerusalem by the occupying army who had come to take him in his sleep. As often occurs, the military authorities gave no reason for the arrest. We are calling upon France to act with conviction to protect and obtain the release of our fellow citizen who is once again subjected to Israeli arbitrary practices.”

The arrest of our fellow citizen is unacceptable and unbearable. The French authorities must not allow such infamous behavior to pass.

I ask you to act today, on behalf of France, for the release of Mr. Salah Hamouri.

Please accept the assurance of my highest consideration.

Dirar Abu Sisi once again ordered to six months in isolation

26 August 2017

Imprisoned Palestinian engineer kidnapped from Ukraine, Dirar Abu Sisi, had his isolation extended for another six months by the Israeli occupation on 26 August. Abu Sisi’s health has recently deteriorated and he is suffering from severe pain in his lower back; he has been held in long-term solitary confinement repeatedly since he was abducted from a train by Israeli intelligence forces.

Abu Sis, 47, i is an engineer from Gaza who was abducted from the Ukraine on 19 February 2011 by the Mossad. He is married (to a Ukrainian citizen), the father of six children, and holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering. He was the deputy engineer of Gaza’s power plant. From Gaza, Veronika Abu Sisi, his wife, has continually advocated for his release and an end to his isolation.

“We won’t give up until Dirar Abu Sisi is released,” Veronika Abu Sisi said in 2013. “They steal our land, they put us in jail, but we have the right to live here. This is our home. I just hope my husband will be back soon with me and our children.” The family has six children. Abu Sisi is now serving a 21-year sentence on charges of participating in the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and continues to be subject repeatedly to solitary confinement and isolation.

Sheikh Raed Salah accused of incitement: “this trial is only about the…defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque”

26 August 2017

Sheikh Raed Salah is being accused of incitement via “sympathy, support and praise” for Palestinian resistance, labeled as “terrorist” by the Israeli occupation, according to an indictment filed in the Haifa District Court by the Israeli Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, 24 August. Salah, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and leader of the Islamic Movement in occupied Palestine ’48, is renowned for his outspoken defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque from various Israeli occupation projects intended to change its character or undermine its existence.

Despite the highly public and political nature of the case, the judge banned filming in the court in Salah’s case, stating that “the case does not concern the public.” Salah has been arrested on multiple occasions and was released in January 2017 after being imprisoned for nine months on charges relating to a sermon he delivered in Jerusalem in 2007; he spent most of his imprisonment held in solitary confinement and was threatened with extended sentencing before release. Israeli occupation officials have also been involved in attempts, including in the United Kingdom, to deny Salah an international platform for advocacy. He has been subjected to repeated travel bans by the Israeli state. He has also been repeatedly barred from entering Jerusalem itself.

His detention has been repeatedly extended since he was seized by Israeli forces on 15 August who invaded his home in Umm al-Fahm. “The judicial grounds for this case are trivial. In reality, this trial is only about Sheikh Raed’s defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the slogan, Al-Aqsa is in danger,” said his lawyer Khaled Zabarqa.

Salah is the leader of the Islamic Movement in Palestine ’48; in 2015, the Israeli state banned the Islamic Movement in an action condemned by Palestinian organizations across the political spectrum as an attack on all Palestinians in ’48 Palestine, who hold Israeli citizenship.

Palestinian youth activist Ahmed Abdel-Aziz jailed by Palestinian Authority forces

26 August 2017

Palestinian youth activist Ahmed Abdel-Aziz has been detained by Palestinian Authority security forces since Monday, 21 August; on Thursday, 24 August, his detention was extended for 15 days pending interrogation. Abdel-Aziz’s case is only the latest in a series of attacks on Palestinian freedom of expression at the hands of the Palestinian Authority under the so-called “Electronic Crimes Law;” he is reportedly being detained for his critical Facebook posts about PA officials.

Abdel-Aziz and other young Palestinians have been pursued by the PA for posting in opposition to ongoing PA security coordination with Israel and PA corruption and concessions to the Israeli occupation. His lawyer, Taha Hussein, told Quds News that he has dealt with several similar issues recently, indicating the frequency of arrests for posting on Facebook and other social media services.

Even Amnesty International has joined the denunciation of the law created by decree of PA president Mahmoud Abbas, due to its use against journalists and writers. Zaher al-Shammali and Nassar Jaradat were subject to detention for Facebook posts critical of PA officials, and Palestinian-American activist Mashal Alkouk was detained for several days earlier this week, also in the context of the law. A number of journalists have been interrogated and detained for publishing critical material about the PA as well.

The “Electronic Crimes Law” has been widely condemned by political parties and organizations throughout occupied Palestine. The PA law, which attempts to criminalize Palestinian political expression on Facebook and in the media, comes alongside systematic Israeli attacks on Palestinian expression, including the persecution of hundreds of Palestinians for their posts on social media and the jailing of teens, journalists and elders in Israeli occupation prisons.

The “Electronic Crimes Law” goes so far as to threaten sentences of hard labor against people convicted of committing “offenses” with the “purpose of disturbing public order…or harming national unity.” Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has published a lengthy analysis of the dangers posed by the law.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network strongly denounces the arrest of Ahmed Abdel-Aziz and demands his immediate release and the release of all political detainees. In addition, we join and support the Palestinian calls to cancel the dangerous and unlawful “Electronic Crimes Law” and the ongoing attacks on Palestinian websites, journalists and activists. This law is particularly chilling in light of the ongoing Israeli targeting of Palestinian journalists, writers and organizers for expressing their opinion on social media and the context of PA security coordination with the Israeli occupation.

We also join our voices with Palestinian organizations and activists demanding an end to Palestinian Authority security coordination with the Israeli occupation. It is very important for international supporters of the Palestinian people and Palestinian cause and Palestinian communities in exile to make their voices heard demand the release of Ahmed Abdel-Aziz and fellow PA political detainees and an end to security coordination and repressive legislation.

Wounded Palestinian prisoners from Dheisheh camp remain jailed; Salhi dependent on artificial respiration

26 August 2017

Wounded Palestinian prisoners Raed al-Salhi and Abdel-Aziz Arafa remain detained under the pretext of “completing interrogation” by the Ofer Military Court despite the fact that Salhi remains in critical condition and in a coma in the intensive care unit at Hadassah Hospital, relying on a ventilator to breathe. Meanwhile, Arafa is still recovering from surgery on his left foot.

Both Salhi and Arafa were wounded by Israeli occupation forces who invaded Dheisheh refugee camp and opened fire on the youths on 7 August. Arafa’s left leg and foot were broken and injured while Salhi’s stomach and thigh were seriously hurt.

Arafa had left his home at 4:30 am to head to work in Doha municipality, where he is a cleaner. He was shot with two bullets and was held in a military vehicle on the floor for half an hour before being brought to the hospital, noted his lawyer Karim Ajwa; Salhi has been unable to speak. Since the moment Arafa arrived at the hospital, he has been shackled to his bed despite his injuries.

Imprisoned women and girls: 14-year-old Malak longs to return to school

26 August 2017

Malak al-Ghaliz, 14, the youngest Palestinian prisoner, asked her mother to get her school certificate for the coming school year – however, the Israeli occupation continued her trial indefinitely and she does not know even when she will next face the Ofer military court. Malak, a Palestinian refugee from the Jalazone refugee camp east of Ramallah, has been imprisoned since 20 May, accused of attempting to stab an Israeli occupation soldier at the Qalandiya checkpoint.

Malak lost credit for her last school year after being seized by occupation forces with two or three final exams remaining at the end of the school year in May, her mother said to Quds News.

She is currently held with other women prisoners and the other minor girls in HaSharon prison. Her mother said that she is studying and preparing to return to school, vowing that she will be one of the best in her class when she returns.

On 22 August, the Israeli occupation released fellow detained child Hiba Farouk, 15, from Jerusalem, after seizing her father Mohammed Farouk in an armed attack on their home in Silwan. Hiba and her brother Yazan, 14, were detained for hours arbitrarily by occupation forces; their father remains jailed.

The military court case of Palestinian university student Ansam Shawahneh, 19, from Qalqilya was continued until 2 October; she has been imprisoned since 9 March 2016 when she was seized near the illegal Israeli occupation settlement of Kedumim and accused of attempting to stab a settler. After two weeks of interrogation, the An-Najah University student was transferred to HaSharon prison and military court hearings have since been continued in her case for a year and a half. She had earlier been denied family visits for over a year.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Jerusalemite teacher Manal Shweiki, 34, had her court hearing continued on Saturday, 26 August. She was seized by Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem on Wednesday, 23 August, in the village of Silwan. This seizure came only two weeks after she was arrested on 10 August, held for five days and then released to six days on house arrest. Now, she is being held in HaSharon prison.

Shweiki is married and the mother of four children; she is also five months pregnant. After she was arrested, she was fired from her job teaching at a municipal school in Jerusalem and has been left without an income.

Shweiki is not alone in this regard. 12 Palestinian teachers in Jeruslem and occupied Palestine ’48 have been fired or even arrested on allegations of “incitement” against the occupation army in recent days. In one case, students after school dressed up as Israeli soldiers and play-acted the shooting of a fellow student in protest of the killings of Palestinian youth by the occupation army; this theatrical activity was labeled “incitement”.

Fadwa Hamadeh, 30, from the village of Sur Baher in Jerusalem, also had her case postponed on Monday, 21 August, until Sunday, 27 August; she has been imprisoned by the Israeli occupation forces since 12 August, accused of attempting to stab settlers near the Damascus gate. She is married with two children; her husband was arrested after her and then released two days later under house arrest.

There are over 60 Palestinian women and girls held in Israeli occupation prisons, including approximately 12 minor girls, many of whom are serving lengthy and unjust sentences, as well as political leaders like Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, among five Palestinian women imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the freedom of these women and girls and all Palestinian political prisoners held in the colonial Israeli prisons of occupation.

27 August, NYC: Stop Fascism and White Supremacy – Solidarity With Berkeley

25 August 2017

Sunday, 27 August
3:00 pm
Union Square
New York City, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1984214335189163/

STOP FASCISM & WHITE SUPREMACY: Solidarity with Berkeley
Sunday August 27th, NYC
Union Square, south side
3pm – to coincide with the counter-demonstration against the fascist mobilization in Berkeley
RSVP on Facebook

Fascists and other white supremacists are coming to Berkeley this weekend and activists there have put out the call for a national day of action in solidarity with them. In the wake of Charlottesville, the streets of Boston last weekend were an unmistakable showing of the mass outrage against fascist mobilizations. More than 40,000 anti-fascists in Boston outnumbered the fascists 800 to 1 and made it impossible for them to congregate on Boston Common.

We need to continue to show our numbers and our refusal to allow Nazis to grow or mobilize. Anywhere, including this Sunday in NYC, 3pm, Union Square, south side. This weekend’s Far Right call to action convening in Berkeley will be met with mass resistance. A large ad hoc coalition is organizing a broad United Front protest to counter the Far Right. They have put out a call for a national weekend of solidarity actions. As one chant in at demonstration today highlights: “Wherever you go, whatever you do, we are many, you are few!” So next weekend, let’s outnumber the Fascists in Berkeley, but let’s also organize Nationally to make it is untenable to hold open racist gatherings of Nazis anywhere in this county.

Sponsored by (list in formation):
*American Muslims for Palestine
*Decolonize This Place
*Columbia GWC-UAW Local 2110
*International Socialist Organization
*Jewish Voice for Peace
*Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
*Jews Say No
*Labor for Palestine
*Labor for Standing Rock
*Movement of Rank and File Educators-UFT
*NYC Solidarity With Palestine
*Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
*Science for the People NYC

Email Ntylim@gmail.com to co-sponsor or with ideas for this action!

Alert: Salah Hamouri seized overnight by Israeli occupation forces

23 August 2017

Palestinian-French former prisoner and advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights Salah Hamouri was once again seized by Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on his home in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, 23 August.

His wife, Elsa Lefort, posted on Facebook that occupation forces came to the home in large numbers, seizing him as he was sleeping, and that no cause had been given for his arrest. He has been unable to contact anyone so far.

Lefort herself, as well as their young child, have been denied access to Palestine by Israeli occupation forces who want to exclude Hamouri’s family from Jerusalem. Salah Hamouri has spoken widely internationally about the experience of Palestinian prisoners; earlier in 2017, he visited universities and communities across Belgium as part of Israeli Apartheid Week.

As a law student and legal advocate working with Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, he continues to campaign daily for rights and freedom for Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people.

Salah Hamouri was released from Israeli occupation prisons – where he had been held since 2005 – in 2011. During his imprisonment, he was supported by strong campaigns organized by many groups, movements and parties in France and Palestine demanding his release. Since his release he has been repeatedly subject to further persecution and violations of his rights – and those of his family – by the Israeli occupation.

Upon his release, he was warmly welcomed by supporters around the world, especially in many cities in France. He has been a keynote speaker at the Fete de l’Humanite, the annual festival organized by the French Communist Party, and the subject of a film, L’Affaire Salah Hamouri, focusing on the French official treatment of his case.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of Salah Hamouri and all Palestinian prisoners. We join in the call for the French state to defend the rights of their citizen and take action for Salah Hamouri’s freedom. Hamouri is an international representative of the struggle of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian prisoners for freedom. From the jails and the courts of the occupation to the cities of Europe to the World Social Forum in Brazil, he is a consistent and clear voice against oppression and for liberation. Free Salah Hamouri! Libérez Salah Hamouri!

New York City protest demands freedom for Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, boycott of HP

22 August 2017

New York City protesters gathered on Monday, 21 August outside the Best Buy in Union Square to campaign for a boycott of Hewlett-Packard (HP) products for the corporation’s complicity in Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, including the imprisonment of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners. The protesters demanded freedom for imprisoned Palestinians, focusing on the cases of jailed Palestinian women leaders Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin.

The event was organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Participants chanted and distributed information about Palestinian prisoners and the role of HP in Israeli militarized technologies, urging a boycott of the company’s electronic and computer products sold in Best Buy as well as highlighting the cases of Jarrar and Saafin. The protest grew later in the event as people joined the demonstration after coming from a protest against the threats of U.S. war on North Korea. Protesters also once again confronted racist slogans and diatribe from a small group of self-identified supporters of the violently racist Jewish Defense League.

Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, prominent advocate for Palestinian political prisoners and leftist and feminist leader, and Saafin, the president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, were both seized by Israeli occupation forces in pre-dawn violent raids of their homes on 2 July. Shortly after they were taken by occupation forces, the two were ordered swiftly to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Both are well-known international figures known for their leading role in the Palestinian national movement and in women’s organizing and political prisoner defense.

Organizations from around the world have rallied to defend Jarrar and Saafin and demand their freedom, including the Communist Party of Spain, the Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil, the Portuguese Communist Party, the Hellenic Union of Progressive Lawyers, Coup Pour Coup 31, the Workers’ Party of Belgium and the Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Turkey, among many others. Protests in Belgium, Germany, the United States, Spain and more have urged their immediate release in actions organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Alkarama, UNADIKUM, the Democratic Palestine Committees, Comac and Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine. Even the South African government has joined in the call to defend Jarrar.

Most recently, several U.S. left parties, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization have issued statements urging the immediate release of Jarrar and Saafin. “We urge progressive people everywhere to support the campaign to win freedom for all Palestinians held in Zionist jails, and we condemn the U.S. government for making the Israeli occupation of Palestine possible,” wrote FRSO. “In the face of vicious repression, the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people continues. Free Khalida Jarrar, Khitam Saafin and all Palestinian political prisoners! End all U.S. aid to Israel!” declared PSL.

They join other US-based organizations, including the Workers World Party as well as CODEPINK and a number of student and locally-based Palestine solidarity organizations in demanding freedom for Jarrar and Saafin.

Jarrar and Saafin are among over 500 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention orders. These orders are indefinitely renewable and can hold Palestinians in jail for years at a time without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence.

The protest also focused on the growing international campaign to boycott Hewlett-Packard for the company’s profiteering from Israeli apartheid, colonialism and occupation. HP has contracts with the Israel Prison Service as well as the Israeli military and the system of identity cards and checkpoints that regulates and represses Palestinian movement throughout their occupied homeland. Many churches, labor unions and other organizations are going HP-free to demand the corporation get out of the business of making money from the oppression of the Palestinian people.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will hold its next protest on Monday, 28 August at 4:30 pm outside the Best Buy on Union Square. Once again, protesters will urge a boycott of HP and an end to corporate profiteering on Palestine’s suffering. They will also focus on the case of Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails. Barghouthi was freed in a prisoner exchange in 2011 but re-arrested in a wave of detentions by Israeli occupation forces that targeted dozens of freed prisoners in 2014. Despite an earlier sentence of 30 months, his original life sentence has now been reimposed. The protest on 28 August will demand his immediate release and that of all of the over 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. All supporters of justice for Palestine are encouraged to join in.

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