Ala’a Jubeh wins freedom from occupation prisons

18 July 2013

Addameer reported that on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, Palestinian political Ala’a Ju’beh’s release from occupation prisons was won by Addameer lawyer Jeanne-Aouda Zbeidat in a military court hearing.

Ju’beh, who is 19, was arrested on December 7, 2011, at age 17, at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint in Al-Khalil (Hebron). She was accused of attacking a soldier at the checkpoint and sentenced to 27 months imprisonment; the Addameer lawyer won her release in a court deal reducing her sentence by one-third. Ju’beh served 19 months of her sentence.

Addameer noted, “It should be noted that such a deal is systematically refused in the military courts. One such case is that of detainee Salwa Hassan (51 years) who was arrested at the Atsyon military checkpoint on 19 October 2011. Salwa was sentenced to 21 months in imprisonment and 2 years of probation, with a fine of 3000 ILS. Two weeks before the end of her sentence the court refused to grant her release, and she was not released until 13 June 2013 after she served her full sentence.”

Freed prisoner Ala'a Ju'beh with former prisoner Woroud Qasem, July 18, 2013 — Freed prisoner Ala’a Ju’beh with former prisoner Woroud Qasem, July 18, 2013

July 27, San Francisco: AROC presents Prisoners and Ramadan: Value of Dignity over Hunger

17 July 2013

Saturday, July 27, 2013
7:00pm until 9:00pm

Eric Quezada Centre for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/415235475263625/

Arab Resource and Organizing Center Iftar & Discussion w/Adam Hudson on
Hunger Strikes in Guantanamo.

Adam is a freelance journalist who just returned from a 2-week trip to Guantanamo Bay.

AROC members will also draw the connections between the current hunger strikes in Pelican Bay and Palestine.

Adam Hudson’s Guantanamo Reporting: http://adamhudson.org/2013/07/01/reporting-from-guantanamo-june-10-june-22/

July 22, New York: Benefit Show to Free the Hares Boys

17 July 2013

Monday, July 22, 2013
6 pm – 2 am
698 Flushing, Brooklyn, NY

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/500890529987909/

Five Palestinian teenagers are facing life imprisonment for a crime that never happened. Come to 698 Flushing for a night of music to raise money for their legal fund. Learn more about the Hares Boys.

Performers include:

Scientific Soul Sessions

Lilth Velkor
http://lilithvelkor.bandcamp.com/

Music was my first gay lover
http://lior.bandcamp.com/album/music-was-my-first-gay-lover

Feral Foster
https://myspace.com/rootsnruckusferal/music/songs

Scryil
http://www.sciryl.com/

Feral Cat (9:30-10)
http://feralscat.bandcamp.com/

GioSafari
http://giosafari.bandcamp.com/

Shomi Noise
http://soundcloud.com/shominoise

For more information about the Hares boys case go to:
http://haresboys.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/FreeTheHaresBoys

London, July 22: Protest G4S Complicity – Free the Hares Boys

17 July 2013

Please join Inminds and the Palestinian Prisoners Campaign on Monday 22nd July (3 days before their next hearing) to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all the children and to hold G4S to account for its complicity in Israel’s crimes, particularly in the torture of Palestinian children.

Monday 22nd July 2013
5:00-6:30pm @ G4S HQ
Southside Building,
105 Victoria Street,
London SW1E 6QT
Closest tube station : Victoria

https://www.facebook.com/events/532332650173070/

About the Hares Boys: On 14th March 2013 in what appears to have been a car accident when a illegal settler car crashed in to the back of an Israeli truck which had stopped due to a flat tire resulting in four people being hurt, was later at the behest of angry settlers presented as an attack by Palestinian stone throwing youth.

VIDEO: Parents of one of the Hares Boys, Ali Shamlawi describing the torture their son suffered at the hands of Israeli interrogators at Al Jalame – Israel’s G4S secured children’s dungeon.

Over the next few days over 50 masked Israeli soldiers stormed the local village of Hares in the early hours of the morning and in waves of violent arrests kidnapped the children of the village. In total 19 children were taken to the infamous G4S secured children’s dungeon at Al Jalame where they were violently tortured and locked up in solitary confinement for up to 2 weeks in windowless 1m by 2m cells with no mattress. To coerce confessions from the boys sexual threats were made against the female members of their families.

After extracting confessions under torture, five of the Hares boys were charged with 25 counts of attempted murder even though there were only four people in the car. Apparently the military court had decided that 25 stones were thrown, each with an “intent to kill”. The five boys – Ali Shamlawi, Mohammed Kleib, Mohammed Suleiman, Tamer Souf, and Ammar Souf are currently locked up in another G4S secured facility – Megiddo prison where G4S provides the entire central command room.

The next court hearing is on 25th July. A study conducted by the Israeli NGO ‘No Legal Frontiers’ over a 12 month period concluded that 100% of Palestinian children brought before the Military court are convicted. If the five boys are convicted they will be locked up for 25+ years – five young lives ruined with no evidence of a crime let alone their guilt.

Live updates during protest

We will, inshAllah, be tweeting live (hash tag #FreeHaresBoys ) from the protest with live photos being uploaded to our twitter and facebook page. So if you can’t join us on the day, please help us by sharing the photos as they get uploaded.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inmindscom-Boycott-Israel/365007213584914
Tweets by InmindsCom

Further Information

Hares Boys website: http://haresboys.wordpress.com

Sireen Khudiri Sawafteh released from occupation prisons

17 July 2013

Palestinian teacher and activist Sireen Khudiri Sawafteh, 25, was released from Israeli occupation prisons on Monday, July 15, 2013, following two months’ imprisonment. She was released with a fine of 7000 NIS that is also serving as bail, but is prohibited from accessing the internet or leaving her home until another court hearing in her case on September 16.

She was arrested on May 15 as she returned to her home city of Tubas from university. She was held in Jalame detention centre for interrogation for 22 days before transfer first to Ashkelon and then to Hasharon prison with her fellow women political prisoners.

She said, following her release, that those who work on the prisoners’ cause should focus on Hasharon prison, as conditions are very bad, and medical neglect and mistreatment is common. She also urged support for Tahrir Mansour at her court hearing on August 28.

Facebook page for Sireen Khudiri Sawafteh campaign

There are now 13 women prisoners in occupation prisons: Alaa al-Ju’bah, Alaa Abu Zaytoun, Ayat Mahfouz, Enaam AbdelJabar Hasanat, Hiba Budair, Inaam Qanambou, Intisar al-Sayyad, Lina Jarbouni, Mona Qaadan, Naheel Abu Aisha, Nawal al-Saadi, Tahrir al-Qinni Mansour, and Dunya Wakid.

Abdullah Barghouthi suffering liver disease as Jordanian strike continues for 77 days

17 July 2013

Abdullah Barghouthi is now suffering from atrophy of the liver as a result of his inability to burn body fat, reported Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib. Barghouti, and four other Palestinian prisoners holding Jordanian citizenship, Mohammad Rimawi, Muneer Mar’i, Alaa Hammad and Hamza Othman al-Dabbas, have been on hunger strike for 77 days.

Barghouthi is being held in Afula hospital, while the other four strikers are now being held in a psychiatric ward at Ramleh prison clinic. He has suffered inflammation of the heart and liver over the past week and has fainted on several occasions. Khatib said that a prison medical committee is threatening to force feed Barghouthi.

Please click here to take action to support the demands of Barghouthi and his fellow hunger strikers.

Prisoners protest medical mistreatment and neglect in Israeli prisons

17 July 2013

The Palestinian Information Centre reported on the statement of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, holding the Israeli prison authority fully responsible for what happened to Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Ghawadreh who lost his eyesight partially after he received incorrect medical treatment in the infirmary of Hadarim jail.

The society stated on July 16 that Ghawadreh was suffering from severe pains in his teeth, but an Israeli doctor in Hadarim jail deliberately injected him with an incorrect drug, which to date has caused him to lose 80 percent of his vision in one eye and 30 percent in the other.

It affirmed that his family is prevented from visiting him in jail and appealed to the Red Cross to pressure the Israeli prison authority in this regard in order for the prisoner to see his family.

The prisoner society also called for forming a neutral medical and human rights committee to investigate the incident that led the prisoner to lose his vision partially.

At the same time, on July 17, Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib reported that prisoners in Ramle prison clinic refused meals and medications to protest ongoing medical negligence and mistreatment.

Riad Amour, a representative of the ill prisoners, said that prison authorities have threatened the prisoners with a loss of family visits and further penalties for their strike. He reported that the patients are seen by a doctor only once weekly, despite their serious conditions, and are denied important medical treatment, including for inflammation after amputations, shrapnel injuries, and tumors.

Former prisoner Mohammad al-Saadi seized on bridge while travelling for leg surgery

17 July 2013

Mohammad al-Sa’adi of Jenin, a former Palestinian prisoner, was seized by occupation soldiers and re-arrested as he attempted to cross the bridge to Jordan in order to undergo surgery on his injured leg. Sa’adi’s family urged on July 17 that he be released and provided immediate treatment, saying that his leg surgery was urgent.

Sa’adi’s mother said that as soon as he entered the bridge, he was surrounded by intelligence and military forces, and arrested. She urged international human rights and medical organizations to take an interest in her son’s case.

Ragheb Abu Diak of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that targeting of former prisoners is a systematic policy of harassment against the entire Palestinian people, noting the massive proportion of Palestinians who have served time in Israeli prison or detention. Sa’adi has been arrested several times before, spending 20 months and 28 months in occupation prisons.

Ahmad Sa’adat suddenly moved to Shatta prison, while Abu Ghoulmeh moved to Hadarim

17 July 2013

Palestinian political prisoner and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Sa’adat, was suddenly transferred from Hadarim Prison to Shatta Prison on July 16, 2013.

Simultaneously, Israeli prison authorities transferred Sa’adat’s comrade, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, from Shatta prison to Hadarim prison. Abu Ghoulmeh and Sa’adat were held together in PA imprisonment in Jericho Prison and abducted together by the Israeli occupation military in March 2006, when the Jericho prison was attacked.

The Prisoners’ Commission of the PFLP responded to these transfers by saying “these movements are an attempt to distract and harass the leadership of the prisoners’ movement, and come as a result of the tense situation in the occupation prisons at present because of the ongoing hunger strikes,” in particular the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners holding Jordanian citizenship that has continued for over 76 days.

Prisoners in Gilboa Prison join Anger Strike against Prawer Plan

15 July 2013

Palestinian prisoners in Gilboa prison announced their participation in the July 15 Anger Strike, a general strike of Palestinians in the ’48 occupied areas, against the Prawer Plan, which will displace up to 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins and destroy their villages.

Addameer reported that the prisoners of Gilboa prison had issued a statement on the strike.

Their statement reads as follows:

On Monday, July 15, when a general strike was announced inside the occupied lands of 1948 to reject the Prawer Plan, which confiscates the lands of the Negev (Naqab) and the displacement of the Bedouin, called by the Higher Follow-Up Committee in the ’48 areas.

We have decided in Gilboa prison to join the national strike within the prison, refusing to hold events on Monday and closing prison facilities, recognizing that we are profoundly connected to all of the struggles of our people and our homeland, in defense of our identity, our belonging, our land and our memory.

Live updates during protest

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