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Palestinian activist Ashraf Abu Rahmeh released from prison April 15

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities released activist Ashraf Abu Rahmeh on Sunday night, the Bilin Popular Committee said.

Abu Rahmeh was detained by Israeli forces in October 2011 while participating in a weekly protest against Israeli land confiscation.

He is a leading figure in weekly non-violent demonstrations against Israel’s ongoing annexation of village land for nearby illegal settlements and the separation wall.

An Israeli military court convicted him of organizing an illegal demonstration and throwing stones, imprisoning him in Ofer jail for six months. He paid 2,000 shekels ($530) to Israeli authorities upon his release, the popular committee told Ma’an.

He has been arrested several times by Israeli forces.

Both Abu Rahmeh’s brother and sister were killed by Israeli forces while taking part in demonstrations.

In Jan. 2011, Jawahir Abu Rahmah, 36, died after inhaling large amounts of tear gas fired by Israeli forces who forcibly dispersed a weekly rally.

Abu Rahmah’s brother Bassem was killed in April 2009 by a tear gas canister fired at his chest by an Israeli soldier during a village demonstration.

In 2008, a video emerged of Ashraf being shot in the foot by Israeli soldiers while blindfolded and bound.

The village of Bilin, west of Ramallah, has been the scene of weekly protests for years as Palestinians have fought to protect their land from annexation.

Social Media Avatars for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

Artist and activist Catherine Byrne developed these social media avatars for supporters of Palestinian prisoners to use on their Twitter, Facebook and other social media profiles and pages, drawing attention to Palestinian prisoners’ cause. The avatars can be downloaded here:

http://leilaladomptable.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/avatars-for-global-fast-in-solidarity-with-palestinian-prisoners-april-17th/

 

Statement No. 1: Leadership Committee of Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike

The following statement, titled Statement No. 1, was issued on April 16, 2012 by the coordinating committee of Palestinian prisoners engaged in a massive hunger strike to launch on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2012. Translated from the Arabic.

The text of the statement follows:

Statement No. 1
Issued by the Higher National Leadership Committee of the Prisoners’ Struggle

Announcing the first spark of the intifada of the prisoners inside the cells of the occupation’s jails

To our great Palestinian people –

We believe in our right to liberty, our dignity, and the recovery of our stolen land and rights, and we announce the first spark of the battle in the occupation prisons (the battle to fulfil our promise) at the break of dawn on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

We promise to our martyrs and prisoners who have come before, and to all of our Palestinian people to continue this struggle until the full achievement of our rights and the end of the practice of solitary confinement, or until we die as martyrs.

Therefore, we call upon you to support us and our struggle locally and globally until we achieve victory or martyrdom. We have firm trust in you.

Victory for us, and for our great people!

Higher National Leadership Committee of the Prisoners’ Struggle

Pisa, April 17: International Solidarity on the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner

Pisa: International Solidarity On the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner

Tuesday, April 17 – 7:00 pm
Via S. Lorenzo 38
Pisa, Italy
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/412627942097315/

On the day of the Palestinian political prisoner: international solidarity with the PFLP!

The Initiative of International Solidarity for the Palestinian Prisoners will feature a talk by Shoukri Hroub of the Arab Palestinian Democratic Union (UDAP), as well as a brief overview of the intervention of the Mossad in some Latin American countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia and Guatemala.

This event is sponsored by UDAP-Tuscany, Collective April 25, BRISOP, and Cobas Confederation Pisa.

The Zionist state was created in May 1948, by a violent and illegal occupation of the land of the Palestinian people. This violation was accompanied by a systematic policy of expulsion, persecution and elimination against the Palestinian people. The Zionist policy is, today, well-known, and we continue to face the denial of the very existence of the Palestinian people and its most basic rights: land, housing, education, health.

The “courts” of the occupation are part and parcel of this denial of Palestinian existence. All forms of dissent are criminalized and there are thousands of Palestinian political prisoners, including children. In an attempt to break this silence, victims of unjust imprisonment have undertaken hunger strikes, willing to die in order to highlight the reality of Palestinian prisoners’ lives.

The case of the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Sa’adat, is emblematic, in isolation for three years now, six years after he and his fellow prisoners were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army.

PLEASE PARTICIPATE AND TAKE ACTION!

Full call in Italian:

Nel giorno del prigioniero politico palestinese: solidarietà internazionalista con l’FPLP!
Lo Stato sionista è nato, nel maggio del 1948, da una illegittima e banditesca occupazione della terra abitata dal popolo palestinese. A questa rottura della legalità, evidente anche sotto l’aspetto del diritto internazionale, hanno poi fatto seguito l’espulsione, la persecuzione e l’eliminazione politica (e spesso fisica) di ogni singolo palestinese come tale. Tali fatti non possono essere rimossi. Quale sia oggi la politica sionista è cosa nota. Siamo di fronte alla negazione dell’esistenza del popolo palestinese e quindi dei suoi più elementari diritti: terra, casa, educazione, salute. La repressione “giudiziaria” è conseguente con questa negazione. Attraverso leggi liberticide viene criminalizzata ogni forma di dissenso e le carceri accolgono 7.000 prigionieri politici (alcuni di loro anche minorenni) che come unica possibilità di uscire dal silenzio dell’ingiusta carcerazione hanno quella di essere disposti a lasciarsi morire in sciopero della fame. Emblematico il caso del segretario generale dell’FPLP Ahmad Saa’dat, illegalmente sequestrato, sei anni fa, assieme ai suoi compagni di prigionia, dall’esercito di occupazione israeliano. La volontà politico-militare dello Stato sionista di Israele è immodificabile perché risponde alle sue stesse ragioni di sopravvivenza: gendarme sub-imperialista nell’area Mediorientale, mercenario di supporto, a livello globale, delle necessità statunitensi. Ecco perché l’unico obiettivo storicamente (e concretamente) praticabile rimane nelle nostre convinzioni quello di: Palestina Unica e Socialista! (Obiettivo ugualmente ineludibile, del resto, sotto qualunque cielo). Queste evidenze, però e lo sappiamo bene, hanno una scarsa condivisione tra le soggettività appartenenti alle classi subalterne anche se esse dovrebbero, oggi, assumerle per le proprie necessità d sopravvivenza. Le cosiddette lancette dell’orologio della Storia sono state riportate indietro, con ciò cancellando gli insostituibili riferimenti di classe. Mentre prima la legittimità delle lotte dei popoli che combattevano per la propria emancipazione nazionale o sociale erano assunte in maniera convinta, idealmente e materialmente, ora il nemico è riuscito a convincere che ha diritto a combattere solo chi è armato da lui: fuori da ciò si è o terroristi o ancora meglio narcoterroristi. Mentre prima la legittimità e la possibilità di una forma istituzionale che superasse il capitalismo permettendo l’estensione della utilizzazione reale della democrazia alle masse lavoratrici era assunta e dibattuta, ora il nemico è riuscito a convincere che lo sfruttamento e la competizione tra sfruttati sono le colonne di Ercole dell’unica democrazia possibile. Le due coppie di “mentre prima” e di “ora” sono oggi, nella fase di capitalismo finanziario globalizzato nella quale siamo, ancor più interdipendenti. L’analisi di questa interdipendenza va riportata ed aggiornata nella quotidianità delle classi subalterne, indipendentemente da tutto (assieme alla pratica di lotta politica). Si tratta, da subito, di sviluppare senza soluzione di continuità, dovunque sia possibile una “battaglia delle idee” che si sostanzi di multiple componenti: quella dell’informazione e della condivisione sulle/delle lotte dei popoli per la loro emancipazione nazionale e sociale (per respingere con forza l’equazione lotte sociali = terrorismo), quella del recupero della coscienza di classe, quella della ridefinizione e assunzione di un modello sociale opposto, a partire dal suo nucleo genetico, a quello ora dominante, immodificabile e mortalmente ostile alle masse popolari. E questa battaglia va combattuta “vincendo il grande con il piccolo ed il meglio equipaggiato con il meno equipaggiato”. Ecco perché i due momenti di specifica solidarietà individuati nella intestazione di questo appello, fatti propri da noi e da altre realtà politiche, li vediamo anche come necessari fattori sinergici ad un contesto di scontro ideologico aperto, sinteticamente sopra tratteggiato, che imprescindibilmente dobbiamo riprendere.

VI INVITIAMO A PARTECIPARE ED INTERVENIRE:
• il 17 aprile 2012 alle ore 19:00 in via S. Lorenzo 38 (saletta cobas), Pisa, alla iniziativa di solidarietà internazionalista per i prigionieri politici palestinesi. Interverrà il compagno Shokri Hroub dell’UDAP. Brevi informazioni sul ruolo del Mossad in alcuni paesi del continente Latino Americano (Argentina, Uruguay, Cile, Colombia, Guatemala) saranno letti durante l’incontro. Interverrà un compagno della UDAP.

adesioni:
UDAP – Toscana
Collettivo 25 aprile
BRISOP
Confederazione Cobas Pisa

April 17, Bradford: Student Information Day on Palestinian Prisoners

Bradford United 4 Palestine will be in Student Central at the University of Bradford, in Bradford City, UK, all day, Tuesday, April 17, with information about Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and the struggle of Palestinian prisoners.

The Price of Intellectual Resistance: Yousef Abdul Haq

The following report was written by Sylvia of the International Solidarity Movement, West Bank:

On the 7th November 2011, founder of the Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment (Tanwer) and lecturer at the An- Najah University, Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, was arrested from his home at two o’clock in the morning. Dr. Yousef is in his 70’s and his health has suffered from mental strain and poor prison conditions. Well known for his calm and peaceful nature, Dr. Yousef’s daughter insists that her father “will always support his people by telling the truth: a lot of people  are living in poverty because they are  under occupation. If my father tells the truth, eventually everyone will understand.”

Administrative detention is legally incompatible with basic international standards of human rights, when Israel holds the accused without charge or trial for long periods of time. The evidence of his or her offense is held in a “secret file,” which cannot be seen by the detainee or defense lawyer. The file is prepared by the Israeli intelligence service, which has gathered “evidence” by illegal means.

This has left Dr. Yousef’s family with no clue as to why he was taken in the middle of the night.

“No one has told us anything” says Yousef’s 21 year old daughter Shayma, a third year student at the An- Najah University. Dr. Yousef is a lecturer in economics and human rights and his co-creation of the Palestinian Enlightenment Project has painted him as a symbol of peaceful and intellectual freedom.

Shayma describes the last night she saw her father, the rapping of fists and unfamiliar sound of Hebrew at her door house. She remembers distinctly as he faded into the shadow of the jeeps outside her windows.

Shayma, the daughter of Dr. Yousef, poses next to her father’s portrait

“It’s strange” she said, “My father was laughing.  He is as strong as iron or steel. When we talk to him, it is him who encourages us when it should be the other way around.”

On that night, the family assumed he would be interrogated then released and waited from two until six in the morning before reading in the newspaper that he would be kept under administrative detention for four months.

It is this absence of information which makes this experience so agonizing for Palestinian prisoner’s families. Now in the sixth month of his administrative detention, Dr. Yousef’s release is pushed further back from the horizon each time it comes into sight with no explanation or court hearing.

When asked what she thinks will happen, Shayma explains “We hope for something. My mother is depressed, she is worried and she can’t sleep since she has heard of how they torture inmates.”

Though the family has rare permission to visit Ofer prison inside ‘48 territory, Dr. Yousef has advised against it. The journey has been made degrading and lengthy, sometimes waiting for hours in uncomfortable conditions as a further means of adding to the suffering of the Palestinian people. “It will only make it harder for us emotionally,” Shayma explained.

Articles 42 and 78 of the Fourth Geneva Convention permits administrative detention only “if the security of the Detaining Power makes it absolutely necessary “or for “imperative reasons of security”. These terms are widely accepted as applicable to the occupied territories of Palestine. The convention articulates that all civilians, weather in occupies territories or not, are fundamentally “entitled, in all circumstances, to respect from their persons, their honor, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices and their manners and customs”. These terms can only cease after the effective end of occupation. Israel ratified the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1951 and is bound by its terms.

That Dr. Yousef’s detention denies a class of young, educated Palestinian’s of human rights lecturer is of no coincidence.  Israel’s use of administrative detention to silence political figureheads is a concern raised by human rights movement Amnesty International, who explained that prisoners of conscious were being held “solely for non-violent exercise of their right to freedom of expression and association.”

“Our souls are not broken, we are hanging on”, says Shayma. As the struggle for her father’s freedom continues, she recalls her father’s advice, calling for unity and intellectual freedom.

Sylvia is a volunteer with International Solidarity Movement (name has been changed).

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day programming on Voice of Palestine radio featuring Yafa Jarrar

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Voice of Palestine will be marking the Global Day of Action for Palestinian Prisoners with special programming. We will interview Ms. Yafa Jarrar, a Palestinian activist who was born in Jerusalem and lived in Ramallah; she is a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Ottawa and is involved in organizing Palestinian prisoner solidarity work. We will talk with Yafa about the importance of this Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and the activities happening around it.

Voice of Palestine broadcasts weekly on Vancouver Cooperative Radio (CFRO) 102.7 FM, Vancouver, Canada. The show has been on the air since Sept. 1, 1987 and broadcasts for one hour every Tuesday night from 8 to 9 pm PDT (Wednesday morning 6:00-7:00am Palestine time). People outside of Vancouver can listen to the show live on the Internet.
For people who wish to receive announcements from our show, please join Voice of Palestine صوت فلسطين facebook group

April 17, the Hague: Protest at Israeli Embassy

http://www.palestina-komitee.nl/agenda/693
The Hague, picket line at Israeli embassy, address: Buitenhof
Time: 12.30 – 13.30h

In Den Haag bij een picket van 12.30 – 13.30 uur bij de Israelische ambassade (Buitenhof).

Al-Awda: Act now to demand freedom for Palestinian prisoners!

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition calls on all people of conscience to take immediate action to help save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners who have been detained by Israeli authorities without any charge whatsoever, and eight of whom are on open ended hunger strike some at the point where death could come at any moment. The Israeli occupation continue to detain Palestinians under the Emergency Law of 1945, which was in force during the British Mandate of Palestine. This law allows the Zionist authorities to detain Palestinians without trial or providing reason, and to repeatedly extend the term of detention. The Israeli authorities have also ratified the Unlawful Combatant Law of 2000, which allows the occupation state to detain Palestinians without charge or disclosure of the term of detention.

There are currently 320 Palestinian administrative detainees in Zionist jails. Eight are on open-ended hunger strike, and have been identified by Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoners Association and Al-Mezan as follows:

1. Mahmoud Kamel Mohammed As-Sersik, 25, from the Ash-Shaboura neighborhood in Rafah, was arrested by the IOF on 22 July 2009 while on his way to join the Balatta Youth Sports Club. As-Sersik is a member of the Palestinian national soccer team. On 23 August 2009, the IOF extended his detention under Israel’s Unlawful Combatant Law. No evidence was provided in justification of his detention, and the term of detention was not specified. He has been on hunger strike for 21 consecutive days in protest against the continuation of his detention without charge or trial. On 8 April 2012, he was transferred from Negev prison to solitary confinement in Eshel prison in Beer Sheva.

2. Thaer ‘Aziz Mahmoud Halahla, 33, from Kharas village in Hebron district in the West Bank, was arrested in his home on 27 June 2010. On 5 March 2012, his term of administrative detention was extended for six months. He has now been on hunger strike for 44 consecutive days in protest against his detention without trial. On 28 March 2012, he was referred to the Ar-Ramla prison hospital due to the deterioration of his health.

3. Belal Nabil Sa’eed Diyab, 27, from Kafer Ra’i village in Jenin district in the West Bank, was arrested on 17 August 2011. On 14 February 2012, his term of administrative detention was extended for six months. He has now been on hunger strike for 45 consecutive days in protest against his detention without trial. On 28 March 2012, he was referred to the Ar-Ramla prison hospital due to his deteriorating state of health.

4. Ja’far Ibrahim Mohammed Eiz Ad-Din, 41, from ‘Arraba village in Jenin, was arrested by the IOF on 21 March 2012. On the same day, he was placed under an order of administrative detention for a term of six months. He is now on hunger strike for the 22nd consecutive day in protest against his detention without charge. On 28 March 2012, he was transferred from Megiddo prison to solitary confinement in Al Jalama prison. His family reports that they have received information that he has since been transferred to Ar-Ramla prison hospital.

5. Ahmed Nabhan Da’san Saqer, 48, from ‘Asskar refugee camp in Nablus, was arrested on 20 November 2008. On 24 January 2012, his term of administrative detention was again extended for a period of four months. He is now on hunger strike for the 31st consecutive day in protest against his detention without charge. He is being held in Shata prison.

6. Mohammed Rafeq Kamel At-Taj, 40, from Toubas in Nablus district, was arrested in his home on 19 November 2003. He was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment. He has now been on hunger strike for 29 consecutive days.

7. Hasan Zahi As-Safadi, 34, from Ein Al Maa’ refugee camp in Nablus, was detained on 29 June 2011. On 29 January 2012, his term of administrative detention was extended for another four months. He is now on hunger strike for the 39th consecutive day. On 6 April 2012, he was referred to the prison hospital in Ar-Ramla due to the deterioration of his health.

8. Omar Mousa Mesleh Shalaeil, 45, from Nablus, was detained on 15 August 2011 while he was on his way to perform the ‘Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca. On 15 February 2012, his administrative detention was extended for another six months. He is now on hunger strike for the 41st consecutive day. On 4 April 2012, he was referred to the prison hospital in Ar-Ramla due to his deteriorating state of health.

ACT NOW!

Please join the voices around the world to help save the lives of the eight political detainees on hunger strike and to demand the immediate release of all 320 administrative detainees!

Write to President Obama and voice your concern and demand that the US administration intervene for the immediate release of all 320 Palestinian administrative detainees and save the lives of the eight on open ended hunger strike. You can use the online form at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

Call US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: (202) 647-4000 or Office of Near East Affairs: (202) 647-7209. Demand that the Secretary intervene for the immediate release of all 320 administrative detainees and save the lives of othe eight on open ended hunger strike.

Organize rallies. Palestinian Political Prisones Day is April 17.

PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ DAY – Take Action to call for Freedom for Palestinian Prisoners!

Background | Actions | Events Around the World | Act now: Write the ICRC

April 17, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, is a global day of action for Palestinian prisoners. Events will take place around the world in support of Palestinian prisoners (see below for details.) As Prisoners’ Day dawns, 10 Palestinian prisoners are currently on hunger strike, including Bilal Diab and Tha’ir Halahleh, two administrative detainees held without charge or trial who are both nearing 50 days of hunger strike. Thousands more Palestinian prisoners plan to join in a massive hunger strike to launch April 17. International solidarity is needed!

There are approximately 4,600 Palestinian political prisoners inside Israeli jails. Palestinians, living under occupation and oppression for nearly 64 years, have been targeted for mass imprisonment and detention by the Israeli occupation. Nearly every Palestinian family has been touched by political imprisonment – a father, mother, son, daughter, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, aunt – from the elderly to children.

Palestinian political prisoners are also political leaders. 27 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, including Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat, Fateh leader Marwan Barghouthi, and the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Abdel-Aziz Dweik, who represents Hamas, are held in Israeli prisons. Ameer Makhoul, one of the Palestinian prisoners who is also a citizen of Israel, was general director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and the Chairman of the Public Committee for the Defense of Political Freedom.

Writers, scholars, students and artists are also Palestinian political prisoners, including Palestinian scholar Dr. Ahmed Qatamesh, who has now been held without trial or charge for nearly a year, Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a professor at An-Najah University whose administrative detention was just extended for an additional six months, and Ola Haniyeh, a student leader at Bir Zeit University and a leading political prisoner solidarity activist abducted just before student elections and currently held under interrogation.

We demand the immediate release of all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. They have been targeted by an unfair and unequal legal system. Their imprisonment reflects Israel’s inherent system of injustice and racism. In addition, Israel must immediately halt its practices of:

  • Administrative detention.
  • Torture and ill-treatment of detainees.
  • Solitary confinement and isolation.
  • The use of military courts in the occupied Palestinian territory that illegally try civilians.
  • Undermining a fair trial by using secret evidence against the accused.
  • Arresting vulnerable groups, such as children, disabled, elderly and ill people.

TAKE ACTION! 

1. Organize or attend an Event or Action marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day! See below for events taking place around the world. No listed event in your city? Tell us about your local event here! 

2. Write to the International Committee of the Red Cross to demand it fulfil its responsibilities to protect the rights of Palestinian political prisoners. Click here to email!

3. Learn more about the Karameh Hunger Strike launching April 17 and inform others that over 1600 Palestinian prisoners will launch a hunger strike on Tuesday.

4. Download, use and distribute the handouts and factsheets for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day! These factsheets are made for use in your community:

5. Watch and display the video testimony of former Palestinian prisoner, Dr. Abdul-Aziz Omar. This video is available in three lengths – 6 minutes, 15 minutes, and 40 minutes. Stream the videos here!


Palestinian Prisoners’ Day Events (Submit Your Event Here)

Toronto: Palestinian Prisoners’ Day – Perspectives on the current struggle

Tuesday, April 17
7:00 PM
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto, ON
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/352427434794172/

April 17th is International Palestinian Prisoners Day. As of 1 March 2012, there were 4,637 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 183 children. Just like Hana Shalabi and Khader Adnan, 320 prisoners are held–without charge or trial–under administrative detention. More details…

Speakers:
Ameena Sultan, Shaira Vadasaria, Issam Al Yamani

Vancouver: Rally and Speak-Out for Freedom for Palestinian Prisoners

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
CBC Building, 700 Hamilton St (Hamilton and Georgia), Vancouver
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/134719799989932/

Nearly 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners are held in jails in Israel, including 170 children and 6 women. 310 prisoners are held – without charge or trial – under administrative detention. Palestinian prisoners include over 20 lawmakers and national leaders, like Ahmad Sa’adat, Marwan Barghouthi and Aziz Dweik.

On April 17, 2012, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, people around the world will respond to the call to take action for Palestinian political prisoners.  In Vancouver, Join us on April 17 to support Palestinian prisoners, demand their freedom, and call for justice. More details…

Chicago: Hungry for Justice – Fast in Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners

Join CMPR for a community dinner and discussion with prisoner rights activist Bekah Wolf

Tuesday, April 17, 7:00pm
CAIR-Chicago Gallery
28 E. Jackson Blvd, Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60604
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/301360836599124/

**Free and open to the public, but space at the venue is limited. To ensure a seat, please RSVP to chicagompr@gmail.com as soon as possible.**

Since 1974, April 17 has been commemorated annually as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Currently there are more than 4500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centers; nearly 200 of these prisoners are children. Just like Hana Shalabi and Khader Adnan, 320 prisoners are held – without charge or trial – under administrative detention.  Here in Chicago, the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights (CMPR) is calling on people of conscience to fast from sunrise to sunset on April 17 in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. According to latest reports from prisoner rights group Addameer, 8 prisoners are currently on hunger strike. More details…

Speaker: Bekah Wolf

Glasgow: March for the Karameh Hunger Strikers, March for Palestine

Tuesday, April 17 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
George Square, Glasgow
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/353500491364265/

On Palestinian prisoners day, Tuesday 17th of April, the Palestinian prisoners movement will launch the Karamah (Dignity) hunger strike. The magnitude of the 1600 Palestinian prisoners embarking on the Karamah hunger strike must be met with a significant international response. This means mass mobilisations to question the impunity of the Israeli state and our own governments involvement. As the resistance of the prisoners escalates, our actions in turn must escalate. This demo is called for by ‘We Are All Hana Shalabi’. More details..

Brussels: Protest for Palestinian Prisoners

  • Manifestatie in Brussel
    dinsdag 17 april 2012
    12u00-14u00
    Europese Commissie te Brussel (Schuman-Rotonde)

en een

  • Solidariteitsavond
    18 tot 22 uur
    film (25 min.): “Libres dans la prison de Gaza”
    Chris Den Hond en Mireille Court (2012)
Den Haag: Picket at Israeli Embassy

http://www.palestina-komitee.nl/agenda/693
The Hague, picket line at Israeli embassy, address: Buitenhof
Time: 12.30 – 13.30h

In Den Haag bij een picket van 12.30 – 13.30 uur bij de Israelische ambassade (Buitenhof).

Bradford: Day of Action and Education
Bradford United 4 Palestine will be in Student Central at the University of Bradford, in Bradford City, UK, all day, Tuesday, April 17, with information about Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and the struggle of Palestinian prisoners.

Pisa: International Solidarity On the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner

Tuesday, April 17
7:00 pm
Via S. Lorenzo 38
Pisa, Italy
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/412627942097315/

The Initiative of International Solidarity for the Palestinian Prisoners will feature a talk by Shoukri Hroub of the Arab Palestinian Democratic Union (UDAP), as well as a brief overview of the intervention of the Mossad in some Latin American countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia and Guatemala.

This event is sponsored by UDAP-Tuscany, Collective April 25, BRISOP, and Cobas Confederation Pisa. More details…

Athens: Picket in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

There is a protest April 17, 2012 at the Israeli Embassy in Athens, Greece at 6:30 in solidarity with the Karama Hunger Strike and the Palestinian prisoners.

Dublin: Lunchtime Picket with Palestinian Prisoners

To mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2012, on Tuesday 17th April from 1-2pm the IPSC will be holding a symbolic lunchtime demonstration outside EU House, Molesworth Street (Dublin 2) to highlight the European Union’s ongoing facilitation of Israel’s apartheid policies and war crimes – including the imprisonment of over 4,400 political prisoners.

Following the demo, activists will move to Grafton Street and conduct an information stall between 2.30 and 5.30pm, distributing information about Palestinian political prisoners. More details…

Sydney: International Day of Action for Palestinian Prisoners

Tuesday, April 17
6 pm – 8 pm
Sydney town Hall
Sydney, Australia

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/275990525816065/

Students for Justice in Palestine invites you to a rally from 6pm to 8pm onTuesday, April 17, on Palestine Prisoners’ Day. Meet outside Sydney Town Hall. Our lips will be silenced with tape, symbolising the purpose of ‘administrative detention’, which is to silence Palestinian resistance against Israeli apartheid. More details…

Montreal: Sumoud – An Evening of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

Thursday, April 19
6:30pm until 9:30pm
Concordia University Hall Building, Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West Metro Guy-Concordia
Montreal, Quebec

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/273290676089860/?ref=ts

Please join us for a panel discussion and screening to highlight prisoner struggles, affirm our support and stand in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners. Featuring speakers: Issam Al-Yamani, Serin Atiani, and a screening of a video produced by Addameer, featuring an interview with Suha Barghouti, wife of Palestinian writer, scholar and political prisoner Ahmed Qatamesh. More details…

Action: Write to the ICRC!

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