Call for protest September 22: Rasmea Odeh facing new government attack

6 August 2016

Prosecutors launch new legal attack on Palestinian American leader Rasmea Odeh
All out for September 22 federal court hearing in Detroit

Attorneys representing Palestinian American icon Rasmea Odeh are pushing back against a new legal attack by federal prosecutors.

In a July 21 filing, Rasmea’s defense team went on record as “strongly opposing” an attempt by prosecutors to subject her to questioning at a “mental examination” prior to an already scheduled Daubert hearing, which itself determines if an expert witness can testify at trial. This is especially important in Rasmea’s case, because the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that trial Judge Gershwin Drain erred in deciding that expert testimony concerning her mental state was irrelevant to her defense. That error led to Rasmea’s unjust conviction in 2014.

On November 29, Judge Drain will hear arguments as to whether Dr. Mary Fabri’s testimony is scientifically valid and applicable to the facts of the case. Recall that before the 2014 trial, Dr. Fabri, a nationally renowned clinical psychologist who has worked with torture survivors for over 25 years, was prepared to testify as to how Rasmea’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), caused by the torture and rape she experienced at the hands of Israeli military interrogators in 1969, affected her answers to questions on complex immigration forms decades later in the U.S.

The move by prosecutors to separately “examine” Rasmea before Judge Drain has even ruled on the admissibility of Dr. Fabri’s testimony is outrageous and meant to intimidate Rasmea. Such an examination is irrelevant as to whether Dr. Fabri’s testimony is reliable and applicable. Nothing asked of Rasmea would change Dr. Fabri’s credentials as an internationally recognized expert on PTSD, or her ability to opine on how Rasmea’s PTSD affected her mental state during any of the dates in question.

Because the government’s request to examine Rasmea is in no way relevant to the admissibility of Dr. Fabri’s testimony, it is obviously designed to aggravate the symptoms of Rasmea’s PTSD and the suffering they cause her. The government knows that it cannot credibly attack Dr. Fabri, so it has instead chosen to harass Rasmea by seeking to subject her to this interrogation.

In the defense filing, Rasmea’s attorneys write that there is a “grave risk that such a fundamentally adversarial interrogation—obviously designed to debunk her earnest PTSD defense—would gravely threaten a serious aggravation of her symptoms and the suffering they cause her.”

The government’s request is also basically a challenge to Rasmea’s story, an attempt to claim that she does not have PTSD and that she did not get brutalized by the Israeli authorities almost 50 years ago. This is a dirty political move by the prosecution, but Rasmea remains steadfast and strong, and will not allow the government to punish her for exercising her constitutional right to assert a meaningful defense. While the prosecution will renew its request to examine Rasmea if Judge Drain orders a new trial, we will continue to oppose such underhanded and transparent scare tactics.

From the very beginning, the Rasmea Defense Committee has pointed out that the legal proceedings against Rasmea are nothing but a pretext to intimidate those who fight hard to realize a free Palestine. Demonstrations in support of her have taken place across the U.S. since her arrest in 2013, and we are again going All Out for Detroit on September 22.

We will rally at the courthouse at
231 W. Lafayette Blvd., in downtown Detroit, Michigan,
on Thursday, September 22, 2016,
at 10 AM Eastern Time,
and then pack the courtroom at 11 AM, as Judge Drain decides whether to allow the government to “examine” Rasmea.

Continue to support #Justice4Rasmea by donating to the defense, organizing educational events in your communities, and staying in touch throughjustice4rasmea.org and justice4rasmea@uspcn.org.

We will not rest until the charges are dropped.

The Rasmea Defense Committee is led by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression
August 5, 2016

Abu Ghoulmeh faces serious health deterioration, Sa’adat threatened after one week of solidarity strike with Bilal Kayed

6 August 2016

saad-ghoulm Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who has been on hunger strike for a week as part of the collective hunger strike in solidarity with imprisoned hunger striker and prisoners’ movement leader Bilal Kayed, is facing serious health deterioration as of Saturday afternoon, 6 August, reported Asra Voice. He is being held in isolation since he launched the strike; despite vomiting blood, severe joint pain, headache and fatigue, he has not received medical tests or been transferred to the hospital.

In addition, Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the PFLP, who also joined the collective strike one week ago to emphasize the high level of commitment of the PFLP and the prisoners’ movement to Kayed’s strike, has been threatened with further transfer to an “unknown destination” in solitary confinement for continuing his strike.

Both are part of a group of over 100 Palestinian prisoners engaged in a collective hunger strike in support of Kayed’s demand for freedom. Kayed, 34, has been on hunger strike for 54 days. He has been imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since the expiration of his 14.5 year prison sentence on 13 June. He immediately launched his hunger strike to demand his immediate freedom; a leader inside the prisons in hunger strikes and prisoner organizing, his strike has drawn widespread support from fellow prisoners. His case threatens a dangerous precedent for all Palestinian prisoners facing indefinite administrative detention upon the expiration of their sentences. Prominent prisoners, including Sa’adat, Abu Ghoulmeh, journalist Omar Nazzal, youth organizer Hassan Karajah, prisoner leaders Wael Jaghoub and Kamil Abu Hanish, Jerusalemite activist Nasser Abu Khdeir and dozens more have joined the collective hunger strike protest for Kayed’s freedom.

Both Sa’adat and Abu Ghoulmeh were seized from the Palestinian Authority’s Jericho Prison, where they had been held under US and British guard, on 14 March 2006 when the Israeli occupation army attacked the prison with tanks and bulldozers in order to abduct the two along with their comrades held inside the prison.

52nd day of hunger strike: Hundreds of prisoners on collective strike, Tunisian labor federation stand with Bilal Kayed

5 August 2016

As Bilal Kayed enters his 52nd day of hunger strike shackled to his hospital bed, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are now on an open hunger strike demanding Kayed’s freedom and an end to administrative detention and repressive attacks on Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Following a series of raids and attacks on prisoners, mostly affiliated with Hamas, in Nafha prison and the transfer of multiple prisoners throughout the Israeli prison system, over 285 prisoners launched a collective hunger strike on Thursday, 4 August, demanding an end to the assaults and attacks of repressive forces in the prison. Today, 80 prisoners from Ramon prison are joining the collective strike.

They joined over 100 prisoners collectively engaged in an open hunger strike to demand an end to Kayed’s administrative detention. Bilal Kayed was ordered to six months in indefinitely-renewable administrative detention rather than being released on 13 June, after completing a 14.5-year sentence in Israeli prisons. His case represents a dangerous precedent for all Palestinian prisoners threatened with indefinite detention following the expiration of their sentences

Among the prisoners joining the strike in solidarity with Kayed on Thursday, 4 August is Omar Nazzal, the imprisoned member of the general secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, held without charge or trial under administrative detention. Nazzal was arrested on 23 April by Israeli occupation forces as he attempted to travel to the European Federation of Journalists’ conference in Sarajevo. Nazzal joines fellow prominent Palestinians engaged in the collective hunger strike, including Ahmad Sa’adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The circus performer Mohammed Abu Sakha, youth activist Hassan Karajah and former long-term strikers Samer Issawi, Ghassan Zawahreh and Shadi Ma’ali are all participating in the collective protest.

Kayed’s own health is continuing to deteriorate in Barzilai hospital, as he rejects all medical tests and examinations. He has consumed only water with small amounts of sugar and salt and a B1 vitamin only, which is a therapeutic substance and not a nutritional item or supplement, reported Addameer lawyer Farah Bayadsi after a visit with Kayed in the hospital on Thursday, 4 August.

Kayed was transferred to another room in the same hospital with four other patients, including a patient with an infectious disease. He remains shackled by his right hand and left leg to the hospital bed. He has an electronic bracelet on his hand that is a surveillance device and is surrounded constantly by three prison guards. He has been repeatedly offered chips, nuts and soft drinks and the guards regularly eat in front of him while boasting. He continues to be monitored by cameras and other surveillance devices. He feels headache, stomach pain, nausea, chest pain, kidney pain and jaw pain.

Despite his severe health condition, Kayed thanked his supporters and confirmed that his strike continues “with high spirits and solid will.” Kayed further emphasized the importance of accurate information about his case, noting that any misinformation can help to undermine his strike and increase the pressure upon him; he noted that there are no negotiations for his release at the present time.

Solidarity with Kayed continues to grow. As Lebanese Arab struggler in French prisons Georges Ibrahim Abdallah announced that he was refusing meals for three days in solidarity with Kayed’s struggle along with six fellow prisoners in Lannemezan, the Tunisian General Labour Union expressed its support and solidarity with Kayed’s struggle. The UGTT is one of the Tunisian Nobel Peace Prize winners and the central force of the labor movement in the country.

Also on hunger strike are the brothers Mohammed and Mahmoud al-Balboul, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention and on hunger strike for over 30 and 33 days, as well as Ayed Herama and Malik al-Qadi, on hunger strike for 23 days in protest of their imprisonment without charge or trial. Four prisoners who had launched a hunger strike around the ICRC’s cuts to family visits suspended their strike on 4 August.

Protests have grown throughout Palestine in support of the strike, with the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza holding a solidarity event while protests gathered in Ramallah, where Archbishop Atallah Hanna joined the crowds in the solidarity tent, Nablus, Dheisheh, Khan Younis, Asqelan and elsewhere throughout Palestine.

Solidarity protests in New York, Wicklow, London, Brussels, Tunis, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amman and throughout occupied Palestine are planned in the coming days.

Al Mezan Condemns Israel’s Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees and Calls on the International Community to Intervene

5 August 2016

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issued the following statement on 4 August, regarding the case of Bilal Kayed, as Kayed entered his 52nd day of hunger strike. The center urged action to address the urgent situation of Palestinian prisoners as the collective hunger strike grows to larger numbers demanding Kayed’s release and an end to the ongoing Israeli attacks and violations of the rights of Palestinian prisoners.

Al Mezan Condemns Israel’s Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees and Calls on the International Community to Intervene

Israeli authorities continue the practices and policies of ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons in the violation of international law and the safeguards in relation to the right to a fair trial. The Israeli judicial system blatantly disregarded such principles by referring Bilal Kayed, 35, for administrative detention after his 14-and-a-half-year prison sentence was served. Kayed’s continued imprisoned without charge or trial sets a dangerous precedent of extended and indefinite imprisonment for all Palestinian prisoners.

Kayed was referred for administrative detention in accordance with an order issued by the Israeli Ofar Court in a session held on Tuesday, 5 July 2015. The court upheld Kayed’s administrative detention order issued by the Military commander of the West Bank. Bilal Kayed went on an open hunger strike, lasting so far for 49 consecutive days, in protest of his detention. Tens of detainees including Ahmed Sa’adat, the Secretary General of the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, launched hunger strikes. Stripped of their rights, protest is often the last resort tool that Palestinian detainees have available to push back against ill-treatment and injustice. The Israeli authorities recently confronted the hunger strikers by isolating the detainees, in an attempt to break-up the protest, rather than uphold the rights of prisoners and detainees.

Last month has witnessed tens of Israeli night raids within several prisons. The Israeli forces broke into prison departments and cells, assaulted detainees and sabotaged their personal belongings. The Israeli policy of medical negligence also continued throughout prisons today. The rates of administrative detention, solitary confinement, arrest of women and children, imposition of high financial fines, and prevention of detainees from receiving family visits, have all increased.

Israel’s practices against Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons are not only considered violations of their rights related to the treatment of detainees, but also directly impact their right to life and physical safety, e.g. in the death of Arafat Jaradat, 30, on 23 February 2013.

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan) emphasizes that Israel is under an obligation to respect the international standards and principles relating to the protection and care of Palestinian detainees such as the 1955 United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment adopted in 1988. Palestinian detainees must also be moved to the occupied territory in compliance with the relevant rules of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Al Mezan calls for the immediate release of Bilal Kayed and calls on the international community to uphold its legal and moral obligations towards Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory. Al Mezan also calls on the international community to promptly intervene to exert pressure on Israel to respect principles of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Al Mezan calls for the creation of a neutral investigative committee to investigate Israeli violations committed against Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons.

Al Mezan urges civil society organizations and human rights defenders around the world to voice solidarity with Palestinian detainees and call on governments to pressure Israel to respect international law and the principles of justice.

5 August, Wicklow: Day of Action for Bilal Kayed – Free Palestine!

4 August 2016

Friday, 5 August
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Billy Byrne Statue, Market Square
Wicklow Town
Ireland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/528649267333386/

Demand the release of Bilal Kayed, a Palestinian prisoner who has spent over 50 days on hunger strike and is currently shackled to a hospital bed.

Assemble at Billy Byrne monument, Wicklow town at 1:00

Organised by éirigí Cill Mhantáin

6 August, Berlin: Freedom for Bilal Kayed and all Palestinian Prisoners

4 August 2016

Saturday, 6 August
8:00
Potsdamer Platz
10785 Berlin, Germany

Join the Palestinian National Action Committee for a protest and gathering in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, Palestinian prisoner on open hunger strike since 15 June against his administrative detention without charge or trial following the completion of his 14.5-year sentence in Israeli jails.

Over 100 Palestinian prisoners, including Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, are engaged in a solidarity hunger strike to demand Kayed’s freedom.

Come out to stand in solidarity with Bilal Kayed and all Palestinian prisoners!

17 August, Copenhagen: Protest to Free Bilal Kayed and all Palestinian Prisoners

4 August 2016

Wednesday, 17 August
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Rådhusplads
Copenhagen, Denmark

Freedom for Bilal Kayed and all Palestinian Prisoners in Zionist jails!

Bilal Kayed was scheduled to be released on 13 June after 14.5 years in Israeli jials. On the same day, however, he was instead ordered by the Israeli occupation to six months in administrative detention, without charge or trial. In protest, Bilal Kayed began an open hunger strike on 15 June. On 1 August, he stated that “it is freedom or death.”

Bilal Kayed is a known leader of the PFLP among the Palestinian prisoners. 100 other prisoners, among them the PFLP’s imprisoned leader Ahmad Sa’adat, have begun a solidarity hunger strike, and hundreds more prisoners participate in the campaign for his release.

Fight Zionism and Imperialism – Free Palestine

Internationalt Forum Middle East Group
http://internationaltforum.dk/

Manifestation

Københavns Rådhusplads

Onsdag den 17. august 2016 kl. 17 – 18

Løslad Bilal Kayed og alle palæstinensiske fanger

i zionismens fængsler

Bilal Kayed blev løsladt den 13. juni efter 14 et halvt år i israelsk fængsel. Samme dag blev han af den israelske militære besættelsesmagt idømt 6 måneders administrativ tilbageholdelse, dvs. uden anklage og retssag. I protest indledte Bilal Kayed den 15. juni en ubegrænset sultestrejke, og han har den 1. august udtalt at ”det er løsladelse eller døden”.

Bilal Kayed er en kendt PFLP-leder blandt de palæstinensiske fanger. 100 andre fanger, blandt dem PFLP’s fængslede leder Ahmad Sa’adat, har indledt sympati sultestrejke, og flere hundrede andre fanger deltager i kampagnen for Bilals løsladelse.

Bekæmp zionismen og imperialismen – Frit Palæstina

Internationalt Forums Mellemøstgruppe

www.internationaltforum.dk

10 August, Montreal: Free Palestinian Prisoners! Boycott and Divest from G4S!

4 August 2016

Wednesday, 10 August
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
7889 Boulevard St-Laurent
Montreal, Quebec
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/525073064358167/

International League of Peoples Struggles and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Support Network invite you to picket in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on August 10, Prisoners Justice Day.

Over 100 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are currently engaged in a hunger strike demanding an end to administrative detention, which is a form of dentention without trial. This hunger strike was initiated by Bilal Kayed who is being held on administrative detention, without charge or trial, despite having already completed the 14.5 years to which he was sentenced by the occupation courts.

http://www.addameer.org/news/over-100-palestinian-prisoners-join-mass-hunger-strike-solidarity-bilal-kayed

The picket will target Prison Profiteer G4$ who are complicit is Israeli occupation and war crimes through their large contract with the Israeli Prison Service to provide ‘security services’ in Israeli prisons, at checkpoints and at the Apartheid Wall. In Canada G4$’s Canadian subsidiary operates Immigrant Detention facilities in Ontario and provides security for Tar Sands, pipelines and other extractive projects that violate Indigenous rights and plunder their teritories.

http://rabble.ca/news/2015/08/call-to-action-boycott-and-divest-g4s

Free Bilal Kayed, Ahmad Sa’adat and All Palestinian Prisoners! Free All Political Prisoners Now!
Boycott and divest from G4S!

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La Ligue international des luttes des peuples et Samidoun, réseau de soutient des prisonier-e-s palestinien-ne-s vous invite à une picketage pour la Journée de justice pour les prisonier-e-s.

Actuellement, il y a plus de 100 prisonier-re-s palestinien-ne-s dans les prisons israeliennes qui font la grève de faim, revendiquant la fin de la détention administrative. Cette grève de faim a été initié par Bilal Kayed, un militant qui est actuellement en détention administrative sans accusations ni proces, malgré les 14.5 ans qu’il vient de servir déjà comme condamnation donné par la cour de l’occupation.

http://www.aurdip.fr/la-lettre-de-bilal-kayed-depuis-la.html?lang=fr

Le picketage cible le profiteur des prisons, la compagnie G4$. G4$ est complicite dans l’occupation israélienne et les crimes de guerres commis par Israel à travers leur énorme contrat avec le Service de prison israélienne. G4$ donne des « services de sécurité » dans les prisons d’Israel, aux postes de contrôles dans la Ci-Jordanie, et au Mur d’apartheid. Le filier canadien de G4$ opère dans les Centres de détentions d’immigrants à Ontario, et fourni la sécurité pour les projets d’extraction des Sables bitumineux, des pipelines, et d’autres projets d’extraction qui sont en violation des droits autochtones et qui détruisent l’environnement.

G4S est la plus grande compagnie de sécurité au monde. Cette compagnie travaille dans plusieurs prisons israeliennes. La Ligue soutient l’appel de boycott et désinvestissement de G4S jusqu’à temps qu’il retire de toutes les prisons israeliennes!

https://www.bdsfrance.org/qg4s-videoq/

Liberté à Bilal Kayed, Ahmad Sa’adat et tous et toutes prisonier-e-s palestien-ne-s! Libérez tout prisonier-e-s politique maintenant!
Boycott et désinvestit de G4S!

5 August, London: Protest to demand ICRC Restore Family Visits & Freedom for Bilal Kayed

4 August 2016

ALERT 5th AUGUST 2016 – LONDON PROTEST TO DEMAND ICRC RESTORE FAMILY VISITS FOR PALESTINIAN PRISONERS & DEMAND FREEDOM FOR HUNGER STRIKER BILAL KAYED

DATE: Fri 5th Aug 2016 3pm-5pm
LOCATION: UK Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 44 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9AL (near
back entrance of Moorgate tube station)
WEB: http://inminds.com/article.php?id=10717
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1761653650757956/

2nd August 2016, www.inminds.com

On Friday 5th August 2016 Inminds human rights group will protest outside the the UK Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross in London to demand it restore the twice-monthly family visits for Palestinian political prisoners which were cut last month to just once monthly.

A letter will be delivered from Neimeh Shamlawi, the mother of a Palestinian child prisoner Ali Shamlawi, who is being denied the right to visit her son by the ICRC. Three years ago her son Ali, 16 years old at the time, was falsely accused of throwing stones. He was tortured and then sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. She explains how her daughter who has not been able to see her brother for 7 months has finally been given permission by the Israeli occupation to visit her brother this month but due to ICRC cuts she will miss the visit because the dates stipulated in the visitation permit falls outside the new once a month ICRC visit schedule. If the ICRC had maintained their twice-monthly visits then she would have been able to visit her brother but now she may have to wait another 6 months for a permit from the Israeli occupation to visit her brother.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said “These cuts by the International Committee of the Red Cross steal the valuable few minutes Palestinian families have with their imprisoned loved ones and are tantamount to collaboration with the Israeli occupation in denying Palestinian political prisoners the right to family visits that is enshrined in international law as part of the Fourth Geneva Convention which the ICRC is mandated to uphold. The ICRC should be ashamed on themselves acting as an arm of the occupation.”

BILAL KAYED – 52 DAYS ON HUNGER STRIKE

The protest will also demand freedom for the Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, and an end to administrative detention. Bilal Kayed was imprisoned by the military occupation in 2001, he completed his 14.5 years sentence on 13th June 2016. But instead of being released as scheduled to meet his waiting family at the military checkpoint, he was re-arrested without charge or trial and ordered to indefinitely-renewable 6 months administrative detention. To demand his freedom Bilal Kayed went on hunger strike. On friday, if he survives, Bilal Kayedwill be on day 52 of his hunger strike. Kayed is imminently vulnerable to cerebral haemorrhage, heart attack or stroke due to the physical strain on his body. Dozens of fellow Palestinian prisoners have joined an open hunger strike and there is an international campaign to demand Bilal Kayed’s freedom. Today there are around 750 Palestinians being held indefinitely without charge or trial, with no way to defend themselves, under Israel’s illegal use of administrative detention. 127 administrative detention orders were issued in July 2016.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said “The caging of Bilal Kayed without charge or trial after he has already served his 14.5 year sentence sets a very dangerous precedent for all Palestinian political prisoners and must be vigorously challenged by human rights activists around the world. His imprisonment today represents the imprisonment of all Palestinians tomorrow. We demand his immediate freedom!”.

Please join us on Friday 5th August outside the UK Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross at 44 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9AL (on same street as the back entrance of Moorgate tube station.)

French parliamentarian urges official intervention to free Bilal Kayed, Palestinian detainees

4 August 2016

Alain Bocquet, member of the French National Assembly and deputy mayor of the town of Saint-Amand-des-Eaux, issued a letter to French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-March Ayrault on Wednesday, 3 August, urging official French intervention to demand the release of Bilal Kayed on his 50th day of hunger strike.

Bocquet, who represents the French Communist Party, issued the letter after receiving a statement from the Association France Palestine Solidarite Nord-Pas-de-Calais urging action on Kayed’s case.

Kayed, 35, has been on hunger strike since 15 June, when he was ordered to an indefinitely-renewable six-month term in administrative detention after completing his 14.5 year sentence in Israeli jails. Today, he faces serious health deterioration and is shackled hand and foot to his hospital bed. He is joined by over 100 fellow Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike demanding his freedom; his case is a dangerous precedent of the continued indefinite detention of all Palestinian prisoners following the completion of their sentences. Today, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine imprisoned for 32 years in French jails, announced that he is refusing meal trays for three days in solidarity with Kayed.

The text of the letter follows:
Dear Minister,

I write to direct your attention to the recent statement to you addressed from the Association France Palestine Solidarite Nord-Pas-de-Calais, in relation to the case of Bilal Kayed, Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 50 days.

As the Association points out, the movement led by Bilal Kayed that has been joined by other prisoners is related to his placement in administrative detention when he should have been freed after serving his sentence.

Thank you in advance for your intervention and request to the Israeli authorities that he is liberated, as are the other prisoners in administrative detention, held without charge or trial.

Please do accept, Monsieur Minister, the assurance of my highest consideration.

Alain Bocquet

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