Llamado a la acción 24-25 de junio: días de acción por la libertad de Bilal Kayed y por el fin de la detención administrativa

17 June 2016

Este llamamiento está abierto a la adhesión de organizaciones. Por favor, usen este formulario o escriban a samidoun@samidoun.net para adherirse.

El 13 de junio, estaba previsto que el preso político palestino Bilal Kayed fuera liberado, después de 14 años y medio en las cárceles israelíes. Su familia estaba esperándolo, al igual que sus compañeros y amigos. Sin embargo, Bilal nunca llegó; en lugar de liberarlo, el sistema militar israelí ordenó ponerlo en “detención administrativa” por 6 meses, sin cargo ni juicio. En consecuencia, el 15 de junio Kayed empezó una huelga de hambre indefinida para exigir su libertad y el fin de la detención administrativa.

Bilal Kayed (35) es uno de los aproximadamente 750 presas y presos palestinos retenidos sin cargo ni juicio, sobre la base de supuesta ‘evidencia secreta’. Y es uno de los 7.000 presos y presas políticas palestinas. La ‘detención administrativa’ puede renovarse indefinidamente; los palestinos pueden permanecer durante años en esta situación, sin saber cuándo serán liberados.

Kayed es conocido por su liderazgo entre los prisioneros palestinos; como representante de los presos del izquierdista Frente Popular para la Liberación de Palestina en la prisión de Meggido, fue mantenido en aislamiento durante un año y medio. Sus compañeros presos están realizando protestas y acciones para exigir su liberación, y van a llevar a cabo la tercera huelga de hambre de dos días el 24 y 25 de junio, exigiendo la libertad de Kayed y el fin de la detención administrativa.

Lo retención de Kayed busca imponer un precedente para todos los presos y presas palestinas: que en la fecha prevista de su liberación –después de 5, 10, 15 o 20 años en prisión–, en lugar de ser liberados, los presos palestinos sean mantenidos indefinidamente sin cargos ni juicio bajo la forma de detención administrativa. La negativa de liberar a Bilal Kayed es una amenaza a la libertad de todos los presos y presas palestinas.

La detención del dirigente Bilal Kayed cuando tenía fecha para ser liberado; de Mohammed Abu Sakha, docente y actor de circo; del defensor de derechos humanos Hasan Safadi (oriundo de Jerusalén); del organizador de jóvenes Bilal Abu Diab; de varios miembros del Consejo Legislativo Palestino, como Abdel-Jaber Fuquha y Hatem Kufaisha; del periodista y dirigente sindical Omar Nazzal, entre cientos más, es un claro indicador de la impunidad con que el Estado de Israel encierra sin cargo ni juicio a los líderes palestinos emergentes y a figuras prominentes de su comunidad. Cientos de presos palestinos han puesto sus cuerpos y sus vidas en juego en prolongadas huelgas de hambre para exigir el fin de la detención administrativa.

Levantamos nuestras voces en todo el mundo para sumarnos al llamado por la libertad de Bilal Kayed y de todos sus compañeros, y para exigir el fin de la práctica arbitraria de la detención administrativa. Exigimos la liberación de todas las presas y presos palestinos, y nos solidarizamos con la causa por la que luchan: la libertad de Palestina y de su pueblo.

Nos sumamos al llamamiento para organizar protestas, acciones y eventos en todo el mundo los días 24 y 25 de junio, en apoyo a las y los presos palestinos en huelga de hambre. Exhortamos a las organizaciones y personas de conciencia en todas partes a sumarse a las acciones para exigir la libertad de Bilal Kayed y de todos sus compañeros, y a sumarse a la campaña de boicot, desinversión y sanciones (BDS) para aislar internacionalmente a Israel, a sus instituciones y a las corporaciones que –como G4S– lucran con el encarcelamiento, la ocupación, el racismo, el colonialismo y la injusticia.

¡Libertad para Bilal Kayed y todas las presas y presos palestinos!

¡Basta de detención administrativa!

Firman:

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Abna’a el-Balad Movement – Palestine
ACAT France
Actions4Palestine – Toronto, Canada
AFPS Association France Palestine Solidarité
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition NY
Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition – US
Alternative Information Center
Asociación Palestina BILADI
Association Belgo-Palestinienne
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) – India
Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine – AURDIP
Association of the Palestinian Community in Scotland
Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
BAYAN USA
BDS Action Calgary
BDS Amsterdam
BDS Austria
BDS Berlin
BDS Nederland
BDS Oudàh
BDS Slovenija
BDS Trieste
BDS Turkey (Filistin Için Israil’e Boykot Girisimi)
BDS Vancouver
Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (Israeli citizens for BDS)
Byron Friends of Palestine
Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Campaign to Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Canada Palestine Association
CAPJPO – EuroPalestine
Cátedra de Estudiso Palestinos Edward W. Said
Citizens International – Malaysia
Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (Sydney)
Collectif Judeo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
Collettivo Autogestito CASAROSSA40
Comité Palestina Libre / Uruguay
Comite Salta de solidaridad con Palestina
Committee of the Greater ABC/SP of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – Brazil
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Brazil
Communist Party, Sweden
Contemporary Lawyers Association (Çagdas Hukukçular Dernegi)
Corvallis-Albany Palestine Solidarity
Coup Pour Coup 31
Democratic Lawyers’ Alliance – Palestine
Democratic Palestine Committees – Germany
docP (Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina , Netherlands)
éirígí
Education Equals Making Community Connections
European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP)
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
Faculty for Palestine (Canada)
February 20 Movement – USA
Filipino Refugees in the Netherlands
Finnish-Arab Friendship Society
Football Against Apartheid
Freedom Archives
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
Friends of Ain el-Helweh, Grenoble
Fronte Palestina
Gaza Action Ireland
Gerechtigkeit und Frieden für Palästina
Gesellschaft Schweiz Palästina
Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
Grupo de Tecnología Alternativa S.C.
Gruppo Azione Palestina – Parma
Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners
Handala Cultural Center – Vienna
Hilton Head for Peace
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (Türkiye Insan Haklari Vakfi)
Human Rights Institute – Bratislava, Slovakia
Human Rights March – Denmark
Hunter College Students for Justice in Palestine
Initiative for a Just Peace in the Middle East – Slovakia
Inminds.com
intal
International Action Center
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International League of Peoples Struggle in Canada
International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
International Solidarity Movement – Palestine
International Solidarity Movement – Northern California
International Solidarity Movement Czech Republic group
Internationale Socialisten
Internationalt Forum/Middle East Group
InvictaPalestina – Torino
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Isçi Demokrasisi Partisi (IDP)
Jewish Voice for Peace, San Diego
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Labor for Palestine
LADH (Liga Argentina de los Derechos del Hombre)
Landless Workers ‘ Movement (MST) – Brazil
Lefterianews – Greece
Left Perspective – Czech Republic
Leuvense Actiegroep Palestina
Libertarian Lawyers Association (Özgürlükçü Hukukçular Dernegi)
London Palestine Action
Los Otros Judios
Merton PSC – London
MRAP Vaucluse
Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
National Jericho Movement
National Lawyers Guild – Palestine Subcommittee
Netherlands Palestine Committee (NPK)
New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition
NY 4 Palestine Coalition
NYC Free Peltier
NYC Friends of MOVE
Palästinensische Kulturzentrum Schweiz
Palestijnse Gemeenschap in Nederland
Palestina Kommitee Rotterdam
Palestina Rossa
Palestina Solidariteit
Palestine Platform Human Rights and Solidarity (PPMS)
Palestinian Arab Cultural Center in Brazil – Rio Grande do Sul
Palestinian Arab Cultural Center in Brazil – Sao Paulo
Palestinian Arab Society – Corumba (Brazil)
Palestinian Child and Youth Institute – Lebanon
Palestinian Democratic Coalition – Chicago
Palestinian Documentation Center
Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee – Palestine
Palestinian Youth Organization
Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine
Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association
Progressive Palestinian Youth Union – Palestine
Progressive Student Labor Front – Palestine
Proletaren FF, sports club, Sweden
Raja’een Folkloric Dance Troupe
Red Sparks Union
Release Aging People in Prison
Resistance for Free Palestine – Greece
Revolutionaire Eenheid
Revolutionary Communist Group/Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Revolutionary Communist Youth, Sweden
Sawt al-Shaab (Voice of the People Radio) – Palestine
SODePAZ Balamil
Solidarity with Novorossiya and Antifascists in Ukraine – NYC
Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine
Stichting Groningen-Jabalya
Studenten Voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina- Nijmegen
Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina (SRP) – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
SJP at Sacramento State University
Students for Justice in Palestine – Maastricht
Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island
Students For Justice in Palestine – Rotterdam
UDAP – Unione Democratica Arabo-Palestinese
UJFP French Jewish Union for Peace
Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees – Palestine
United for Palestine
USC Students for Justice in Palestine
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging
Voice of Palestine
West Valley Neighborhoods Coalition
Women In Black International(Seattle USA chapter)
Women in Black (Vienna)
Women in Black The Netherlands

Este llamamiento está abierto a la adhesión creciente de organizaciones. Por favor, usen este formulario o escriban a samidoun@samidoun.net para adherirse.

24 ve 25 Haziran: Bilal Kayed ve tüm Filistinli Esirlere Özgürlük! İdari Tutukluluğa Son!

17 June 2016

Filistin ve dünyanın farklı yerlerinden 91 kurum Filistinli esir Bilal Kayed’in özgürlüğüne kavuşması ve Siyonist işgal rejiminin idari tutukluluk politikasını sona erdirmek üzere ortak bir çağrıya imza attı. Çağrı hala kurum imzasına açıktır. İmza atmak isteyen kurumlar bulinkten imzalarını ekleyebilir veya samidoun@samidoun.net adresine mail atabilir.

13 Haziran günü, Filistinli esir Bilal Kayed’in İsrail cezaevindeki 14 buçuk yıl esaretinin ardından serbest bırakılması kararlaştırılmıştı. Ailesi, yoldaşları ve arkadaşları onu bekliyordu; ancak Bilal gelmedi çünkü serbest bırakılmak yerine, herhangi bir suçlama ya da yargılama olmaksızın altı aya kadar idari tutukluluğunu emretmişti İsrail işgal ordusu. O özgürlüğünü geri almak ve idari tutukluluğuna derhal son verilmesi için 15 Haziran sabahından beri açlık grevinde.

34 yaşındaki Bilal Kayed, gizli delillere dayanarak somut suçlama ya da yargılama olmaksızın hapse atılan yaklaşık 750 Filistinliden ve işgal cezaevlerinde bulunan toplam 7 bin Filistinliden sadece biri. İdari tutukluluk emirleri süresiz yenilenebilir; Filistinlilerin serbest kalacakları zamanı asla bilmeyerek idari tutukluluk altında yıllar geçirebilir.

Kayed Filistinli mahkumlar arasında bir lider olarak tanınır- Mecdu cezaevinde solcu Filistin Halk Kurtuluş Cephesi’nin temsilcisi olarak, bir buçuk yıl boyunca hücre hapsinde kalmıştır. Yoldaşı olan Filistinli tutsaklar, Kayed’in özgür bırakılması ve idari tutukluluğuna son verilmesi talebiyle bir dizi protesto ve eylemler başlattı ve 24 ve 25 Haziran’da üçüncü kez iki günlük açlık grevi yapacaklar.

Bu, tüm Filistinli esirler için emsal olması amacıyla yapılan bir eylemdir. Cezaevinde beş, on , on beş , yirmi yıl yatan esirler sonra, serbest bırakılmak yerine, suçlama ya da yargılama olmaksızın süresiz idari tutuklulukla karşı karşıya kalıyorlar ve tahliye tarihlerini bilmiyorlar. Bilal Kayed’in özgürlüğünün reddi, tüm Filistinli esirlerin özgürlüğü için bir tehdittir.

Tutuklu esir lider Kayed, sirk sanatçısı ve öğretmen Muhammed Ebu Saha, Kudüslü insan hakları savunucusu Hasan Safadi, gençlik eylemcisi Bilal Ebu Diab, Filistin Yasama Konseyi üyeleri Abdül Cabir Fukuha ve Hatim Kufeyşa, gazeteci ve sendika lideri Ömer Nazzal… Daha yüzlercesi, İsrail devletinin, Filistinli liderleri ve Filistin toplumu içinde öne çıkan kişileri suçlama ve yargılama olmaksızın hapis tutarak hiçbir zaman ceza almayacağını ve bu korunmalılığının düzeyini gösteriyor. Yüzlerce Filistinli esir, idari tutukluluğun sona erdirilmesi talebiyle uzatılmış açlık grevleri yaparak bedenlerini ve yaşamlarını ortaya koydu.

Biz, Bilal Kayed ve yoldaşı idari tutukluların hepsinin idari tutukluluk uygulamasına bir son verilip serbest bırakılması için dünyanın dört bir yanından sesimizi yükseltiyoruz. Filistinli esirlerin, ve uğruna mücadele ettikleri Filistin ve Filistin halkının özgürlüğü için sesleniyoruz.

Özgürlükleri için mücadele eden Filistinli esirlerledayanışmak adına, 24 ve 25 Haziran’da dünya çapında yapılacak olan protesto, eylem ve etkinliklere katılacağımızı bildiriyor ve dünyanın dört bir yanındaki vicdan sahibi herkesi buna davet ediyoruz. Dünya çapındaki örgütleri ve vicdan sahibi insanları, Bilal Kayed ve yoldaşlarınının özgürlüğü için İsrail’i ve G4S gibi hapis, ırkçılık, sömürgecilik ve adaletsizlikle beslenen kurum ve şirketlerini uluslararası alanda boykota ve tecrit etmeye çağırıyoruz.

Bilal Kayed ve tüm Filistinli Esirlere Özgürlük!

İdari Tutukluluğa Son!

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Abna’a el-Balad Movement – Palestine
ACAT France
Actions4Palestine – Toronto, Canada
AFPS Association France Palestine Solidarité
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition NY
Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition – US
Alternative Information Center
Asociación Palestina BILADI
Association Belgo-Palestinienne
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) – India
Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine – AURDIP
Association of the Palestinian Community in Scotland
Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
BAYAN USA
BDS Action Calgary
BDS Amsterdam
BDS Austria
BDS Berlin
BDS Nederland
BDS Oudàh
BDS Slovenija
BDS Trieste
BDS Turkey (Filistin Için Israil’e Boykot Girisimi)
BDS Vancouver
Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (Israeli citizens for BDS)
Byron Friends of Palestine
Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Campaign to Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Canada Palestine Association
CAPJPO – EuroPalestine
Cátedra de Estudiso Palestinos Edward W. Said
Citizens International – Malaysia
Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (Sydney)
Collectif Judeo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
Collettivo Autogestito CASAROSSA40
Comité Palestina Libre / Uruguay
Comite Salta de solidaridad con Palestina
Committee of the Greater ABC/SP of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – Brazil
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Brazil
Communist Party, Sweden
Contemporary Lawyers Association (Çagdas Hukukçular Dernegi)
Corvallis-Albany Palestine Solidarity
Coup Pour Coup 31
Democratic Lawyers’ Alliance – Palestine
Democratic Palestine Committees – Germany
docP (Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina , Netherlands)
éirígí
Education Equals Making Community Connections
European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP)
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
Faculty for Palestine (Canada)
February 20 Movement – USA
Filipino Refugees in the Netherlands
Finnish-Arab Friendship Society
Football Against Apartheid
Freedom Archives
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
Friends of Ain el-Helweh, Grenoble
Fronte Palestina
Gaza Action Ireland
Gerechtigkeit und Frieden für Palästina
Gesellschaft Schweiz Palästina
Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
Grupo de Tecnología Alternativa S.C.
Gruppo Azione Palestina – Parma
Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners
Handala Cultural Center – Vienna
Hilton Head for Peace
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (Türkiye Insan Haklari Vakfi)
Human Rights Institute – Bratislava, Slovakia
Human Rights March – Denmark
Hunter College Students for Justice in Palestine
Initiative for a Just Peace in the Middle East – Slovakia
Inminds.com
intal
International Action Center
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International League of Peoples Struggle in Canada
International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
International Solidarity Movement – Palestine
International Solidarity Movement – Northern California
International Solidarity Movement Czech Republic group
Internationale Socialisten
Internationalt Forum/Middle East Group
InvictaPalestina – Torino
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Isçi Demokrasisi Partisi (IDP)
Jewish Voice for Peace, San Diego
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Labor for Palestine
LADH (Liga Argentina de los Derechos del Hombre)
Landless Workers ‘ Movement (MST) – Brazil
Lefterianews – Greece
Left Perspective – Czech Republic
Leuvense Actiegroep Palestina
Libertarian Lawyers Association (Özgürlükçü Hukukçular Dernegi)
London Palestine Action
Los Otros Judios
Merton PSC – London
MRAP Vaucluse
Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
National Jericho Movement
National Lawyers Guild – Palestine Subcommittee
Netherlands Palestine Committee (NPK)
New York City Students for Justice in Palestine
Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition
NY 4 Palestine Coalition
NYC Free Peltier
NYC Friends of MOVE
Palästinensische Kulturzentrum Schweiz
Palestijnse Gemeenschap in Nederland
Palestina Kommitee Rotterdam
Palestina Rossa
Palestina Solidariteit
Palestine Platform Human Rights and Solidarity (PPMS)
Palestinian Arab Cultural Center in Brazil – Rio Grande do Sul
Palestinian Arab Cultural Center in Brazil – Sao Paulo
Palestinian Arab Society – Corumba (Brazil)
Palestinian Child and Youth Institute – Lebanon
Palestinian Democratic Coalition – Chicago
Palestinian Documentation Center
Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee – Palestine
Palestinian Youth Organization
Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine
Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association
Progressive Palestinian Youth Union – Palestine
Progressive Student Labor Front – Palestine
Proletaren FF, sports club, Sweden
Raja’een Folkloric Dance Troupe
Red Sparks Union
Release Aging People in Prison
Resistance for Free Palestine – Greece
Revolutionaire Eenheid
Revolutionary Communist Group/Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Revolutionary Communist Youth, Sweden
Sawt al-Shaab (Voice of the People Radio) – Palestine
SODePAZ Balamil
Solidarity with Novorossiya and Antifascists in Ukraine – NYC
Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine
Stichting Groningen-Jabalya
Studenten Voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina- Nijmegen
Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina (SRP) – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
SJP at Sacramento State University
Students for Justice in Palestine – Maastricht
Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island
Students For Justice in Palestine – Rotterdam
UDAP – Unione Democratica Arabo-Palestinese
UJFP French Jewish Union for Peace
Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees – Palestine
United for Palestine
USC Students for Justice in Palestine
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging
Voice of Palestine
West Valley Neighborhoods Coalition
Women In Black International(Seattle USA chapter)
Women in Black (Vienna)
Women in Black The Netherlands

91 Palestinian and international organizations join Call to Action: 24-25 June – Days of Action to Free Bilal Kayed and End Administrative Detention

17 June 2016

91 Palestinian and international organizations have come together to issue a joint call to action to free Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed and end administrative detention. These organizations are urging actions around the world on Friday and Saturday, 24 and 25 June – or before – to demand freedom for Kayed, who was ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, after the completion of his 14 and one-half year sentence in Israeli prison. Kayed joins over 700 other Palestinians in administrative detention, out of a total of approximately 7,000 Palestinian prisoners.

This call to action comes in response to the announced protests inside Israeli prisons, launched by Palestinian prisoners, and will coincide with a two-day hunger strike demanding Kayed’s freedom involving hundreds of jailed Palestinians. Kayed’s case is a high priority for Palestinian prisoners, who view his administrative detention immediately upon release from a lengthy sentence as creating the potential for a dangerous precedent that threatens all imprisoned Palestinians with indefinitely renewable detention.

The call to action will be updated and additional organizational signatories are welcome. Protests and actions are currently planned in Berlin, Sakhnin, New York City, and Asira al-Shamaliyeh (Kayed’s hometown), and a cross-US call in day is scheduled for 24 June. Please email samidoun@samidoun.net or post to Samidoun on Facebook about events on 24-25 June, including existing events, protests, literature distributions or tables incorporating materials about Bilal Kayed and administrative detention. Samidoun will be happy to provide downloadable materials for your events and actions.

Call to Action: 24-25 June – Days of Action to Free Bilal Kayed and End Administrative Detention

This call out is open for organizational endorsements. Thank you! Please use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net to sign on.

On 13 June, Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed was slated for release after 14 and one-half years in Israeli prison. His family was waiting for him, as were his comrades and friends; however, Bilal never came – because instead of being released, he had been ordered by the Israeli occupation military to six months in administrative detention without charge or trial. He is now on an open hunger strike which he launched the morning of 15 June – demanding his freedom and an end to administrative detention.

Bilal Kayed, 35, is one of approximately 750 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence under administrative detention, and 7,000 Palestinians total in occupation prisons. Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable – Palestinians can spend years in administrative detention at a time, never knowing when they will be freed.

Kayed is known as a leader among Palestinian prisoners – as the representative of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine prisoners in Megiddo prison, he was targeted for solitary confinement for one and a half years. His fellow Palestinian prisoners are engaged in a series of protests and actions to demand his release and will be conducting their third two-day hunger strike on 24 and 25 June, returning their meals to demand Kayed’s freedom and and an end to administrative detention.

This is an attempt to impose a precedent for all Palestinian prisoners – that on the date of release, after five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years in prison, rather than being released, Palestinian prisoners be held indefinitely without charge or trial, ordered to administrative detention. The denial of Bilal Kayed’s freedom is a threat to the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners.

The detention of Kayed, a prisoner leader, scheduled for release; Mohammed Abu Sakha, circus performer and teacher; Jerusalemite human rights defender Hasan Safadi; youth organizer Bilal Abu Diab; members of the Palestinian Legislative Council such as Abdel-Jaber Fuquha and Hatem Kufaisha; journalist and union leader Omar Nazzal – amid hundreds more, indicate the level of Israeli state impunity to lock away Palestinian emerging leaders and prominent community figures without charge or trial. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have put their bodies and lives on the lines in extended hunger strikes to demand an end to administrative detention.

We raise our voices around the world to join the call to free Bilal Kayed and all of his fellow administrative detainees and bring an end to the practice of administrative detention. We call for the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners – and for the cause for which they struggle, the freedom of Palestine and its people.

We join the call for protests, actions and events around the world on 24 and 25 June in support of the Palestinian prisoners striking for freedom and urge organizations and people of conscience everywhere to join in actions to demand freedom for Bilal Kayed and his fellow prisoners, including building the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign to internationally isolate Israel, its institutions, and the corporations – like G4S -that profit from imprisonment, occupation, racism, colonialism and injustice.

Free Bilal Kayed and all Palestinian Prisoners!
End Administrative Detention!

Signed:

This call out is open for additional organizational endorsements. Please use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net to sign on.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Abna’a el-Balad Movement – Palestine
ACAT France
Actions4Palestine – Toronto, Canada
AFPS Association France Palestine Solidarité
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition NY
Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition – US
Alternative Information Center
Asociación Palestina BILADI
Association Belgo-Palestinienne
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) – India
Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine – AURDIP
Association of the Palestinian Community in Scotland
Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
BAYAN USA
BDS Action Calgary
BDS Amsterdam
BDS Austria
BDS Berlin
BDS Nederland
BDS Oudàh
BDS Slovenija
BDS Trieste
BDS Turkey (Filistin Için Israil’e Boykot Girisimi)
BDS Vancouver
Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (Israeli citizens for BDS)
Byron Friends of Palestine
Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Campaign to Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Canada Palestine Association
CAPJPO – EuroPalestine
Cátedra de Estudiso Palestinos Edward W. Said
Citizens International – Malaysia
Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (Sydney)
Collectif Judeo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
Collettivo Autogestito CASAROSSA40
Comité Palestina Libre / Uruguay
Comite Salta de solidaridad con Palestina
Committee of the Greater ABC/SP of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – Brazil
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Brazil
Communist Party, Sweden
Contemporary Lawyers Association (Çagdas Hukukçular Dernegi)
Corvallis-Albany Palestine Solidarity
Coup Pour Coup 31
Democratic Lawyers’ Alliance – Palestine
Democratic Palestine Committees – Germany
docP (Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina , Netherlands)
éirígí
Education Equals Making Community Connections
European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP)
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
Faculty for Palestine (Canada)
February 20 Movement – USA
Filipino Refugees in the Netherlands
Finnish-Arab Friendship Society
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24 June, USA: Call the White House to demand Israel free Bilal Kayed

16 June 2016

Between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm EST on June 24, ten days after Bilal Kayed went on hunger strike, call the White House to demand his immediate release: 001-202-456-1111

After calling, post here about the White House operator’s response.

Bilal Kayed, one of 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel, had been scheduled for years to be released on June 13, the end of a 14 1/2-year sentence by an Israeli military court in the occupied West Bank.

Instead, on the morning his family and friends planned to welcome him home, he was given an administrative detention order, a decree by an Israeli military commander sentencing him to six more months’ imprisonment, without charge or trial and subject to indefinite renewal.

Now one of 715 Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons, Bilal started a hunger strike on June 14 to demand his freedom.

On June 24, as hundreds of other Palestinian prisoners join a two-day hunger strike supporting Bilal and protests for his release are held throughout Palestine and the world, call the White House to ask that President Barack Obama take immediate action for Bilal’s freedom.

As Israel’s biggest economic and political supporter, the Obama administration shares responsibility for its crimes against Palestinians, including its administrative detention of Bilal.

Tell the White House:

Bilal Kayed, a Palestinian political prisoner, has been on hunger strike since June 14 to protest his administrative detention without charge or trial by Israel, after a 14 1/2 year sentence by an Israeli military court.
The United States must demand Bilai’s immediate release and end all support for Israel’s political imprisonment and other crimes against Palestinians.
Israel’s use of administrative detention is a universally-recognized violations of human rights and international law.
US aid to Israel breaks the Leahy Law, which bars assistance to military units known to violate human rights with impunity.
The billions of dollars sent to Israel by the US could be better spent on pressing needs within the country. (Mention any domestic priorities, like health care, job creation or schools, that are particularly important to you.)

Take Action: Urge the US Congress to demand Israel free Bilal Kayed

16 June 2016

If you are a citizen or resident of the United States, please urge your members of the Senate and House of Representatives to demand that Israel free Bilal Kayed immediately.

As a body that allocates billions of dollars in economic and military aid to Israel, Congress shares responsibility for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, including its administrative detention and other abuses of Palestinian political prisoners.

Bilal Kayed, one of 7,000 currently held by Israel, had been scheduled for years to be released on June 13, the end of a 14 1/2-year sentence by an Israeli military court in the occupied West Bank.

Instead, on the morning his family and friends planned to welcome him home, he was given an administrative detention order, a decree by an Israeli military commander sentencing him to six more months’ imprisonment, without charge or trial and subject to indefinite renewal.

Now one of 715 Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons, Bilal started a hunger strike on June 14 to demand his freedom.

Please take a moment to customize the letter, rewriting it in original words and adding your own ideas! A creative message will count for much more than one that looks exactly like dozens of others.

30 prisoners in Megiddo launch solidarity strike with Kayed at “historic moment” for Palestinian prisoners

16 June 2016

30 Palestinian prisoners in Megiddo prison are carrying out a solidarity hunger strike with Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed. Kayed, 35, was ordered on Monday to six months in administrative detention by the Israeli occupation military, when he had been scheduled for release after 14 and one-half years in Israeli prison. He launched an open hunger strike demanding his freedom on 15 June.

Palestinian prisoners have launched a campaign of protest in support of Kayed, demanding his immediate release and the cancellation of the administrative detention order against him. All prisoners affiliated with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Kayed’s political party, carried out the first of several planned two-day hunger strikes on 14 and 15 June; Kayed was the PFLP prisoners’ representative in Megiddo prison before being transferred to solitary confinement for the last year of his imprisonment.

The Handala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners said that the 30 prisoners in Megiddo view the order against Kayed as an attempt by the occupation to implement a new systematic policy against prisoners at the end of lengthy sentences, and an attempt to impose a policy of fear on prisoners to discourage protest inside the prisons, as Kayed was a known leader in the prisoners’ movement.

A press conference and march will take place on Saturday, 18 June in Bilal Kayed’s home town of Asira al-Shamaliya at 10 pm, with the march beginning at the Asira municipality building, followed by the press conference with Kayed’s family at his home. Protests will also take place in various cities and towns in Palestine and internationally.

The PFLP’s prison branch issued a statement on Kayed’s case and the growing protest, saying that Kayed’s “battle is our battle, and the battle of all of the comrades of the PFLP and all of the Palestinian people. From the first day of the decision of the fascist occupation, we have opened the struggle and protest on June 14 and will continue throughout the month of June and early July, culminating in opening the second phase of the battle: an open hunger strike by all of our comrades in prison after July 7, 2016. We assure that we will not retreat from this battle until we have broken the arrogance of the occupation and its security institutions, and broken this decision, which puts all prisoners at high risk and endangers our people’s rights to freedom, dignity and humanity.”

They called the strike a “historical moment” for the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, saying that the imposition of administrative detention after the completion of his long sentence was a “serious threat to all Palestinian prisoners that we must confront early before it becomes a systematic policy of the occupation.”

Palestinian prisoners reiterate rejection of ICRC cuts to family visits

16 June 2016

Palestinian prisoners reiterated their rejection of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) decision to reduce adult men prisoners’ family visits from twice monthly to once monthly. The ICRC, which organizes the family visits due to the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation, including the application for special permits, has claimed that budget shortfalls are the reason for the cuts.

However, Palestinian prisoners across the political spectrum have denounced the cuts as deeply damaging to prisoners and their over 7,000 Palestinian families. Further, they have noted that the ICRC, by carrying out these cuts, is complicit in an ongoing Israeli agenda of cutting back on family visits and isolating prisoners from the broader Palestinian public.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society issued a statement that “The prisoners’ national movement rejects the ICRC’s decisions and considers it an attack on the rights and achievements of the Palestinian prisoners, for which they have paid a heavy price in struggle against the occupation. The effect of this decision fits perfectly with the occupation policy aimed at restricting the prisoners and their families by increasing burdensome requirements and complications on visit permits, which raises many questions about the motivation of this action.”

The prisoners demanded that the ICRC overturn the decision and instead work to improve family visits in quantity and quality.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will protest on Friday, 17 June in New York City outside the ICRC’s offices at 801 2nd Avenue in Manhattan, at 4:00 pm, against the restrictions on family visits and demanding the restoration of twice-monthly family visits.

To help support the campaign to restore family visits, please sign on to the petition to the ICRC: https://www.change.org/p/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-stop-the-cut-in-family-visits-to-palestinian-prisoners

Israeli administrative detention orders issued against dozens of Palestinians: performers, students, religious leaders

16 June 2016

The administrative detention order for an additional six months’ imprisonment without charge or trial against Palestinian circus perforer and trainer Mohammed Abu Sakha was confirmed by an Israeli military court, reported Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Abu Sakha’s detention will remain in place from 13 June to 12 December 2016; he was arrested on 14 December 2015 as he traveled to his workplace in Bir Zeit.

Abu Sakha’s case has drawn widespread international support; he and the Circus School are well-known and have performed around the world. Prior to his arrest, Abu Sakha was scheduled to perform in international tours and circus trainings in March and June 2015.

Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable for one to six months at a time; there are approximately 750 Palestinians held currently in administrative detention. The practice began in Palestine under the British colonial mandate and was re-imposed by the Israeli occupation.

The renewal order against Abu Sakha is not alone – Palestinian prisoner Kayed Abu Rish, who has been held in administrative detention since January 2015 had his petition against the renewal of his administrative detention rejected by Israeli military courts on 15 June. Abu Rish, who has engaged in multiple hunger strikes, individually and collectively, previously spent 17 years in Israeli jails and has been arrested 10 times. In August 2015, he engaged in a hunger strike, which he ended after a commitment to not renew his detention; instead, two new orders against him have been issued.

On 15 June, Israeli occupation military commanders also extended the administrative detention of Qalqilya imam Sheikh Mujahid Nofal for six months, held under administrative detention since 10 November 2015; and Ismail Tamezi, of Al-Khalil, for an additional four months, following 10 months held without charge or trial. On Monday, 13 June, Saif al-Islam Daghlas was ordered to an additional six months in administrative detention without charge or trial. Daghlas is the previous Chair of the Students’ Union at Bir Zeit University, representing the Islamic Bloc. In total, 26 administrative detention orders were confirmed, including orders against former hunger strikers, Thaer Halahleh, who after his 2014 re-arrest has had his detention renewed five times, and Mahmoud al-Fasfous, whose hunger strike had earlier ended with a promise to not renew his detention.

Fellow administrative detainee Nassar Nassar has been on hunger strike for 7 days in protest of his administrative detention; he was arrested three months ago on 15 March and ordered to six months’ administrative detention. After his petition, like Abu Rish’s, was rejected at appeal, he began his open hunger strike. He has been held in solitary confinement since he began his strike. At the same time, Malik Qadi is continuing on hunger strike for the 24th day in protest of his torture and harsh conditions under interrogation.

French mayors denied visit with Barghouthi; Stains mayor achieves “first victory” in court battle against repression

16 June 2016

“A first victory,” said Azzedine Taibi, mayor of the French city of Stains, following his appearance at the Administrative Court of Montreuil on Tuesday, 14 June.

The criminal complaint of the BNCVA, a French organization that labels itself in opposition to anti-Semitism, but in practice focuses on attempting to silence criticism of Israel, support for the Palestinian struggle, and the BDS campaign, accusing Taibi of “public apology for a terrorist act,” was dismissed by the court.

“The defamatory, misleading and destabilizing strategy of the BNCVA and the right-wing municipal opposition has once again failed,” Taibi – who represents the Communist Party of France – wrote on Facebook.

On the central matter, the posting of a large banner of Palestinian leader and political prisoner Marwan Barghouthi on the Stains city hall, Taibi is being pursued by the prefect, the representative of the French central government. The prefect seeks to force its removal, and the majority of the hearing was dedicated to its arguments against the banner’s posting in Stains.

A decision in the case will be issued in July, said Taibi, who said he was confident and that a negative ruling would be “extremely shocking and a very bad sign for democracy.” Taibi is represented by legendary French lawyer Roland Weyl.

“One thing is certain: our determination to support the rights of the Palestinian people and not to be intimidated by government threats remains complete,” said activist group CAPJPO-EuroPalestine. Approximately 100 protesters supported Taibi outside the court, in defense of his freedom of expression and against the current attempts to criminalize BDS in France, including the prosecution of 4 activists in Toulouse, France – who will go to court on 30 June – for distributing leaflets in a public square calling for the boycott of Israeli goods.

While Taibi is fighting in French court for his right to display a banner of Marwan Barghouthi, 16 French mayors in a delegation to Palestine were prohibited from visiting Barghouthi in Gilboa prison yesterday, 14 June. The mayors – along with Taibi – are part of a group of 23 French municipalities that have granted Barghouthi honorary citizenship. The mayors’ delegation is also meeting with Barghouthi’s wife, Palestinian lawyer Fadwa Barghouthi, and officials and prisoner support organizations.

Bilal Kayed launches hunger strike for freedom from detention following 14.5 year sentence

16 June 2016

Bilal Kayed announced on Wednesday, 15 June that he had entered an open hunger strike to demand his freedom. Kayed, 35, was ordered to administrative detention on Monday, 13 June – just as he was scheduled for release from a 14 and one-half year sentence in Israeli prisons on charges of membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and participation in the Palestinian resistance in the second intifada.

Imprisoned since 14 December 2001, Kayed’s family was waiting to meet him on Monday – including his sister Suha, who flew home to Palestine from Germany to see her brother’s freedom – but instead were informed that he had been ordered to six months’ administrative detention without charge or trial. During his imprisonment – in which he was a leader among PFLP prisoners and in coordination between Palestinian factions – he was isolated in solitary confinement on multiple occasions and took part in several hunger strikes against isolation and repression in prison. Kayed is now one of nearly 750 Palestinian prisoners held in administrative detention without charge or trial.

In a press conference in Gaza, the PFLP’s Prisoners Committee noted on Wednesday that Kayed’s detention was a matter of concern to all Palestinian prisoners and an attempt to set a precedent for sending Palestinian prisoners to administrative detention immediately following their release from lengthy sentences. “This attack is part of the continued targeting of the prisoners’ movement and an act of revenge against influential leaders…who continue to be a source of inconvenience and concern for the occupation,” said Allam Kaabi, a former prisoner and leader of the committee. Kaabi announced that Kayed had launched his open hunger strike, demanding freedom and the cancellation of the administrative detention order.

PFLP prisoners in all Israeli prisons returned their meals for two days on 14 and 15 June, and are planning multiple additional hunger strikes and escalating protests, including with Palestinian prisoners from all political factions and affiliations, for Kayed’s immediate release. The National and Islamic Forces’ Prisoners Committee announced that it was organizing a series of protests and actions across the Gaza Strip in support of Kayed, and urged the Palestinian masses in Palestine and everywhere in diaspora to organize to demand Kayed’s freedom. They also demanded that international agencies, particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross, end its silence and confront the violations of prisoners’ rights, especially the administrative detention of Kayed.

The Handala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners reported that the Israeli prison administration was stepping up punitive actions against the striking prisoners, including imposing fines, prohibiting family visits for a month and confiscating electrical devices. Two prisoners participating in the two-day strike, Walid Daqqa and Haitham Alantara, were transferred from Hadarim to Ramon prison. Prisoners’ cells were invaded by repressive forces in Ramon and Ofer.

Palestinian and international groups are organizing in support of Kayed, with protests planned for the weekend in Berlin and Sakhnin, and organizing for actions on 24 and 25 June, the days of another 2-day hunger strike inside the prisons. Protests will take place in New York and other cities. Palestinian singer Mohammed Nawahdeh wrote a song in support of Kayed:

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Take Action:

1. For US Citizens or Residents – Urge your members of Congress to demand that Israel free Bilal Kayed immediately. Write to your representative here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-the-us-congress-to-demand-that-israel-free-bilal-kayed

2. Join the Call-In Day for Bilal Kayed on Friday, 24 June – Call the White House to demand Kayed’s immediate freedom. Call them at 001-202-456-1111 – and join the Facebook event to participate with others making the call – https://www.facebook.com/events/575578372603387

3. Join a protest for Bilal Kayed – in Berlin, New York, and many more cities to come. If you are in an organization, endorse the call to action for events on 24 and 25 June for freedom for Kayed.

4. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. G4S, a global security corporation, is heavily involved in providing services to Israeli prisons that jail Palestinian political prisoners – there is a global call to boycott it. Palestinian political prisoners have issued a specific call urging action on G4S.

Call to Action: 24-25 June – Days of Action to Free Bilal Kayed and End Administrative Detention

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