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13 January, Toulouse: Table d’infos : Liberté pour Ahmad Sa’adat

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Friday, 13 January
6:00 pm
Metro Jean Jaures
31000 Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/996856710418892/

During the days of action from 13 to 15 January 2017 for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat, General Secretary of the PFLP, and all Palestinian prisoners, we will hold an information table in Toulouse. Join us to give us a hand and come together. Solidarity is our weapon! Palestine will win!

The international call in French: http://www.couppourcoup31.com/2017/01/du-13-au-15-janvier-2016-journees-d-action-pour-la-liberation-d-ahmad-saadat-et-de-tous-les-prisonniers-palestiniens.html

Dans le cadre des journées d’actions du 13 au 15 janvier 2017 pour la libération d’Ahmad Sa’adat (secrétaire général du FPLP) et de tous les prisonniers palestiniens, nous organisons une table d’infos sur Toulouse. Venez nombreux et nombreuses pour nous rencontrer et donner un coup de main. La solidarité est notre arme ! Palestine vaincra !
Voir l’appel international : http://www.couppourcoup31.com/2017/01/du-13-au-15-janvier-2016-journees-d-action-pour-la-liberation-d-ahmad-saadat-et-de-tous-les-prisonniers-palestiniens.html

NYC protesters take to the streets to free Palestinian child prisoners and boycott HP

(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)

Protesters gathered in New York City outside the Best Buy in Union Square on Friday, 6 January to protest for the freedom of Palestinian child prisoner Natalie Shokha and all Palestinian prisoners. The protest was also organized to highlight the growing international campaign to boycott HP products due to its profiteering from the occupation of Palestine and the imprisonment of Palestinian prisoners.

(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network gathered outside the Best Buy in the wintry cold, carrying signs highlighting the case of 15-year-old Natalie Shokha, recently sentenced to one and one-half years in Israeli prison. Natalie was shot by occupation soldiers on 28 April with live bullets in her back and chest and accused of attempting to stab Israeli soldiers. She is one of over 300 Palestinian children currently imprisoned in Israeli jails.

(Photo: Joe Catron)

Participants also handed out flyers and materials about the international campaign to boycott Hewlett-Packard computers, printers and other consumer electronics. HP Enterprise has contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, checkpoints and settlements. It provides technology, equipment and services to the most repressive aspects of the Israeli settler colonial regime.

(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)

Samidoun activists and friends of Palestinian prisoners in New York City will gather once again outside Best Buy on Friday, 13 January at 5:30 pm, at 52 E. 14th St at Union Square, for a protest to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners and to build the boycott of HP. The protest will be part of international days of action highlighting the case of imprisoned Palestinian political leader, parliamentarian and PFLP General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners.

(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)
(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)
(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)
(Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace)

40 organizations join call for action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners

40 organizations have joined the call for the International Days of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners on 13, 14 and 15 January, and events are being organized internationally. The call, the list of endorsers and the current events follow below.  Materials and resources for use are available for download.

We invite your organizations, groups and coalition to endorse this call to action and participate in the events of January 13-15, 2017. Thank you! Please use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net to sign on.

Events are already being scheduled in New York City, Albuquerque, Brussels, Berlin, Manchester, Italy and elsewhere. Please share your event with us or email samidoun@samidoun.net.

Endorsers | Events

January 13-15, 2017 marks the 15th anniversary of the seizure of Palestinian political leader, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Sa’adat, by the Palestinian Authority under the policy of “security cooperation,” at the behest of Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom. Today, after a 2006 attack on the Jericho prison by Israeli occupation forces, Sa’adat is serving a 30-year sentence in occupation prisons, convicted in a military court of leading a prohibited organization and incitement.

Ahmad Sa’adat is a leader of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and a leader of the Palestinian national liberation movement, held behind bars with 7,000 fellow leaders of the Palestinian people. There are thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, on the front line of the struggle for freedom. In the past year, over 6,000 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli occupation forces. These Palestinian political prisoners are the leaders of resistance to occupation, targeted for their role in refusing racism, colonialism, apartheid and occupation.

The imprisonment of Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow Palestinian political prisoners is aided and assisted by the complicity of international states and major corporations. The United States and United Kingdom guarded Sa’adat in a Palestinian Authority prison and cleared the way for an Israeli attack, ensuring Sa’adat and his comrades came under fire. And the political, military and economic support these and other states, including the European Union and Canada, provide to the Israeli occupation allows the continued imprisonment and extrajudicial execution of Palestinians with impunity. Further, corporations like Hewlett Packard (HP) profit from the imprisonment of Palestinians by selling their services to the Israeli Prison Service.

On January 13-15, 2017, we join in a collective call for international action for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian political prisoners. We demand an end to the internationally-mandated policy of Palestinian Authority “security coordination” that undermines the Palestinian struggle for freedom. And we urge the escalation of the campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Israeli state and complicit institutions and corporations, including HP, to create, as Sa’adat said, “a real economic cost for the industries of colonization.”

We echo the call to organize events, actions and protests in cities, town squares, campuses and public spaces to break the isolation of the prisoners, and demand freedom now for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian political prisoners.

Endorsing organizations:

Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Handala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners
Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee
Coup Pour Coup 31
International Red Aid / Secours Rouge International
Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah – Paris
32CSM International Department
ACAT France
Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (National)
Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Alternative Information Center
ANPI Torre del Greco
Asociacion Biladi
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR)
Association Switzerland Palestine
BACBI (Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott)
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (Israeli citizens for BDS)
Canada Palestine Association-Vancouver
Cátedra de Estudios Palestinos “Edward W. Said” – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras- UBA
Communist Party (Sweden)
Corvallis Palestine Solidarity
De-Colonizer
Demokratische Komitees Palästinas – Berlin
éirígí
Exeter PSC
Filipino Refugees in the Netherlands
Freedom Archives
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Fronte Palestina
Global Campaign for Palestinian Political Prisoners (GCPPP)
Groupe Non-Violent Louis Lecoin
Hilton Head for Peace
ILPS in Canada (Country Chapter)
International Action Center
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Internationalt Forum – Middle East Group
Invicta Palestina
Izquierda Unida
Jewish Voice for Peace, San Diego
Justice for Palestine Matters
Le Cri Rouge
Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
National Jericho Movement
NYC Students for Justice in Palestine
Palestina Rossa
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Partido Comunista de España
Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
Red Sparks Union
Revolutionary Communist Group
Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine
Students for a Democratic Society (National)
The New Jewel Movement
Unadikum Association
Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP)
Unione Democratica Arabo Palestina (UDAP) – Italy
United National Antiwar Coalition
Vlaams Socialistische Beweging

We invite your organizations, groups and coalition to endorse this call to action and participate in the events of January 13-15, 2017. Thank you! Please use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net to sign on.

Scheduled Events:

New York City – Thursday, January 12, Meeting on anti-inauguration marches, Palestinian political prisoners. 7:00 pm, Solidarity Center, 147 W. 24th St., NYC

New York City – Friday, January 13, Protest to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and Stop HP! 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Best Buy Union Square (53 E. 14th St.) , NYC. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/362798944095466/. Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Albuquerque – Friday, January 13, Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners.  6:00 pm, SouthWest Organizing Project,  211 10th St SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1917752155121856/. Organized by Irish Americans for Socialism and Liberation

Brussels – Friday, January 13. Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat! 7:30 pm, Local Sacco Vanzetti, 54 chaussee de Forest, Brussels 1060. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1334357123293510/. Organized by Secours Rouge and Samidoun, endorsed by Mouvement Citoyen Palestine

Copenhagen – Friday, January 13Solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat, PFLP’s general secretary,
and all Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons. 5 pm, Solidaritetshuset, Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro (the shop)

Toulouse – Friday, January 13. Table of Information for Ahmad Sa’adat and Palestinian Prisoners.  6:00 pm, Metro Jean Jaures, 31000 Toulouse, France, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/996856710418892/

Manchester – Saturday, January 14. Boycott Barclays Protest! 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1279998228726828/. Organized by Manchester Boycott Israel Group

Hilton Head – Saturday January 14. Vigil for Ahmad Sa’adat. 10 am, Highway 278 at HH Library, Hilton Head, South Carolina

London – Saturday, 14 January. Tabling to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and Palestinian Prisoners. 12:00 pm, Court Street, Whitechapel, E1, London. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1750880001895240/  Organized by the East London Revolutionary Communist Group

Milan – Saturday, 14 January. Vigil under the prison of Opera, in solidarity with all prisoners, against isolation (in Italy named 41 Bis), for the liberation of Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. Organized by Fronte Palestina – Details to come

Florence – Saturday, 14 January. Campi Bisenzio – leafleting for the release of Palestinian prisoners and Ahmad Sa’adat, during the vigil to remember Operation Cast Lead. Organized by Fronte Palestina – Details to come

Padova – Saturday, 14 January. display of banners in the city and a radio broadcast about the Palestinian prisoners situation and Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat in the evening broadcast of Radiazione Web radio. Organized by Fronte Palestina – Details to come

Berlin – Sunday, January 15. Palestinian Contingent in the Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Lenin March. 9:30 am, gather at U-Bahnhof Frankfurter Tor. Organized by the Democratic Palestine Committees-Berlin.

Paris – Sunday, January 15. Protest gathering for freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat. 3:00 pm,
Ménilmontant (Paris Métro), 75020 Paris, France, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/252049355226418/

MORE EVENTS TBA in Italy – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1739069739753137/, Ireland, and more.  We urge you to organize events and please share your event with us or email samidoun@samidoun.net.

15 January, Paris: Rassemblement pour la Libération d’Ahmad Sa’adat

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Sunday, 15 January
3:00 pm
Ménilmontant (Paris Métro)
75020 Paris, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/252049355226418/


LIBERTE IMMEDIATE ET SANS CONDITION POUR AHMAD SA’ADAT
ET POUR TOUS LES PRISONNIERS PALESTINIENS !

Au huitième anniversaire du jugement d’Ahmad Sa’adat, nous appelons à l’action et à la mobilisation la plus large pour sa libération !

La campagne pour la libération d’Ahmad Sa’adat appelle, du 13 au 15 janvier 2017, à un vaste mouvement de mobilisation populaire, politique et médiatique pour libérer Ahmad Sa’adat et tous les prisonniers Palestiniens : cet appel coïncide avec le huitième anniversaire du jugement d’Ahmad Sa’adat par les tribunaux militaires sionistes. Ces journées renvoient aussi au 15ème anniversaire de l’enlèvement d’Ahmad Sa’adat par l’Autorité Palestinienne sur demande d’Israël, des États-Unis et de leurs alliés.

Le 25 décembre 2008, un jour avant le lancement de l’attaque brutale menée par les forces d’occupation sionistes sur la bande de Gaza, Ahmad Sa’adat, secrétaire général du Front populaire pour la libération de la Palestine, a été condamné à 30 ans de prison par un tribunal militaire sioniste. La peine a été prononcée près de deux ans après l’attaque de la prison de Jéricho et l’enlèvement de Sa’adat et de ses camarades.

Voici ce qu’a déclaré Ahmad Sa’adat devant le tribunal militaire qui le jugeait : «Au vu de la justesse de notre cause et de la lutte légitime de notre peuple contre l’occupation, je refuse de reconnaître la légitimité de votre cour, de légitimer votre occupation ou d’être présenté devant l’un ou l’autre. Parce que ce que vous appelez une liste d’accusations et «d’infractions à la sécurité» sont en réalité mes devoirs patriotiques … et devraient être remis dans leur contexte, au regard du devoir de tous de résistance contre l’occupation. En même temps, et en tant que Secrétaire général du Front Populaire pour la Libération de la Palestine, je voudrais réaffirmer ma fierté d’appartenir au Mouvement révolutionnaire Palestinien et à la continuation de ce mouvement révolutionnaire sur le plan régional, national et international comme autant de composantes qui s’inscrivent dans le mouvement international de résistance contre le système impérialiste”.

Huit ans après, nous appelons tous les partisans de la justice et de la liberté en Palestine, toutes les organisations et communautés Palestiniennes, les mouvements internationaux de solidarité, les organisations BDS et toutes les organisations qui luttent pour la libération des prisonniers politiques révolutionnaires et l’amélioration des conditions de détention, à nous rejoindre et à participer activement aux journées d’action du 13 au 15 janvier 2017 pour faire connaître et soutenir la lutte légitime de plus de 7 000 Prisonniers Palestiniens incarcérés dans les geôles de l’entité sioniste.

À cette occasion, nous voulons aussi souligner et dénoncer la politique d’étroite collaboration des services de sécurité de la soi-disant Autorité Palestinienne avec l’entité sioniste. Nous voulons aussi mettre en exergue la responsabilité et la complicité de cette Autorité dans l’emprisonnement qui perdure encore aujourd’hui d’Ahmad Saadad ainsi que la responsabilité des États-Unis et du Royaume-Uni dans l’emprisonnement de Saadad et de l’attaque de la prison de Jéricho.

Les 13, 14 et 15 janvier 2017, la campagne pour la libération d’Ahmad Sa’adat se mobilise pour :

1) lancer une vaste campagne de mobilisation, de protestations et d’actions en faveur de la libération d’Ahmad Sa’adat et de tous les prisonniers politiques Palestiniens enfermés dans les geôles de l’entité sioniste. Cette campagne pourra aussi prendre la forme de protestations contre les institutions de l’entité sioniste, américaines et britanniques, de rassemblement sur les places publiques et de manifestations et d’actions d’information sur la cause et la situation des détenus Palestiniens.

2) construire une campagne de boycott, de désinvestissement et de sanctions contre l’entité sioniste et contre les sociétés complices, y compris Hewlett-Packard. Nous faisons écho à l’appel lancé par Sa’adat pour soutenir «toutes les formes de boycott : politique, économique, académique et culturel de l’Etat d’occupation et provoquer un véritable déficit économique pour ces industries de l’occupation et de la colonisation » … évoquant par-là les campagnes mondiales de boycott de toutes les entreprises qui soutiennent l’occupation militaire et économique et investissent pour cela ».

3) exiger la fin de la collaboration des services de sécurité de la soi-disant Autorité Palestinienne avec l’occupation de l’entité sioniste, et la fin des arrestations politiques menées par la soi-disant Autorité Palestinienne qui ne servent que les intérêts de l’occupation.

LIBERTE POUR AHMAD SA’ADAT ET POUR TOUS LES PRISONNIERS PALESTINIENS !

Campagne pour la libération d’Ahmad Sa’adat
25 décembre 2016

15 January, Berlin: Palestinian Contingent at Luxemburg-Liebknecht-March

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Sunday, 15 January
Gathering Point, 9:30 AM
U-Bahnhof Frankfurter Tor
Frankfurter Tor 3
10243 Berlin
(Across from the Humana)

Gather with the Democratic Palestine Committees of Berlin to join a Palestinian contingent to the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demo, the annual march commemorating the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919. Contingent protesters will march for Ahmad Sa’adat and imprisoned Palestinians.

14 January, Hilton Head: Vigil for Ahmad Sa’adat and Palestinian Prisoners

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Saturday, January 14
10 am
Highway 278 at HH Library
Hilton Head, South Carolina

Organized by Hilton Head for Peace

Join a vigil in solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners.

Contact:   843-681-4010

 

Manchester, 14 January: Boycott Barclays Protest

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Saturday, January 14
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1279998228726828/

As part of an international day of action called by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for the release of Ahmed Sa’adat and all prisoners of the occupation, we are calling on all anti-racists and BDS supporters to join protests in Manchester to highlight the reactionary role Britain is playing in the Middle East. As well as collaborating with the Israeli occupation and its prison system the British government continues to support war on Syria, arming Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other fascist forces. Parliament has also voted to support the Saudi-US war on Yemen.

Barclays bank is a symbol of the warmongering of the British ruling class. It invests in arms companies that are complicit in the war crimes of the Israeli, Saudi and Turkish regimes. Its funding for Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems show that years after providing loans to the apartheid regime in South Africa, Barclays is still supporting racism, war and occupation. It has to be a focus of BDS campaiging and of protest against imperialist attempts to redivide the Middle East.

Organized by Manchester Boycott Israel Group

13 January, NYC: Protest to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and Stop HP

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Friday, 13 January
5:30 pm
Union Square Best Buy
52 E. 14th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/362798944095466/

Help launch a broad popular, political and media campaign to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners called by the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat between January 13-15.

On December 25, 2008, one day before the launch of the brutal attack on the Gaza Strip by Zionist occupation forces, Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Zionist military court.

Stand with Sa’adat to demand that Israel release him, five other imprisoned PLC members, and all 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners immediately, and that Hewlett Packard companies end their contracts with Zionist prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements now.

Help build a growing international campaign to boycott HP over the companies’ support for Zionist crimes.

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

13 January, Brussels: Liberté pour Ahmad Sa’adat!

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Friday, 13 January
7:30 pm
Local Sacco Vanzetti
54 chaussee de Forest, Brussels 1060
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1334357123293510/

15 ans depuis l’arrestation d’Ahmad Saadat, Secrétaire Général du Front Populaire de Libération de la Palestine par l’Autorité Palestinienne et 8 ans depuis sa condamnation à 30 ans de prison.

Projection à préciser, discussion, débat avec un représentant de la campagne Free Ahmad Sa’adat.

13 January, Copenhagen: Solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners

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Solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat, PFLP’s general secretary,
and all Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons
Friday January 13, 2017
5 pm
Solidaritetshuset, Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro (the shop)

Program:

We show a short video on Ahmad Sa’adat (5 minutes)

Introduction to the political life and imprisonment of Ahmad Sa’adat,  and the situation of the 7000 Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails

An activist tells about the visit she made together with an international brigade to Ahmad Sa’adat during his imprisonment in the Palestinian authority prison in Jericho on the Westbank

Break

We show the film “Leila Khaled, the hijacker” by Lina  Makboul (60 minutes). Leila Khaled is a leading member of PFLP – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Questions and debate

Background:

Precisely !5 years ago, Ahmad Sa’adat was arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA)  under pressure from USA, UK  and Israel. In 2006, Israeli military forces attacked the Jericho prison and forcibly kidnapped Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades and transferred them to Israeli prisons.  Ahmad Sa’adat is sentenced to 30 years prison for belonging to a ‘terrorist organization’.

In big parts of the world, action days are organized January 13 – 15 in solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat and the 7000 Palestinian prisoners – on the initiative of among others SAMIDOUN, the Palestinian prisoners committee.

Free Ahmad Ss’adat and all the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails

– Free Palestine – Boycott Israel

Internationalt Forum/The Middle East Group

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Solidaritet med Ahmad Sa’adat

og alle palæstinensiske fanger i israelske fængsler

Fredag den 13. januar 2017 kl. 17 – 19

Solidaritetshuset, Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro (butikken)

 

Program:

Vi viser en lille film om Ahmad Sa’adat, PFLP’s fængslede generalsekretær  (5 minutter)

Oplæg om Ahmad Sa’adats politiske liv, hans dramatiske fængsling og de palæstinensiske fangers situation i zionismens fængsler. En aktivist beretter om dengang hun sammen med en international brigade besøgte Ahmad Sa’adat i selvstyrefængslet i Jericho

Pause

Vi viser filmen ’ Leila Khaled, flykapreren’ af instruktøren Lina Makboul (1 time) . Leila Khaled er ledende medlem af PFLP (Folkefronten til Palæstinas Befrielse).

Der vil være tid til spørgsmål og debat.

Der serveres kaffe/the og kager

Baggrund:

Det er i disse dage præcist 15 år siden at Ahmad Sa’adat blev arresteret af den palæstinensiske selvstyremyndighed (PA)  – efter pres fra Israel, USA og England. I 2006 blev Ahmad Sa’adat og hans kammerater kidnappet af israelske tropper under et voldeligt militært angreb og overført til israelske fængsler. Her afsoner Sa’adat en fængselsdom på 30 år – for sit tilhørsforhold til en ’terrororganisation’!

Over store dele af verden finder der arrangementer sted i dagene 13 – 15 januar i solidaritet med Ahmad Sa’adat og de 7000 andre palæstinensiske fanger. Initiativtager er bl.a. Samidoun, de palæstinensiske fangers komite.

Løslad Ahmad Sa’adat og alle palæstinensiske fanger i israelske fængsler!

– Frit Palæstina! – Boykot Israel!

Arrangør: Internationalt Forums Mellemøstgruppe

 

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