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15 November 2011
Activist Janan Abdu describes how Israeli prison authorities tried to break the spirits of political prisoners who recently went on hunger strike, including her husband Ameer Makhoul. Read more about Interview: Hunger strikes created "new sense of solidarity"
17 October 2011
Israeli Prison Service transfers Ameer Makhoul. Hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners enters its 20th day. Jordan joins hunger strike. Read more about Prison service transfers Ameer Makhoul to Megiddo jail
10 October 2011
While the hunger strike and actions of disobedience by Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails is gaining momentum, the support for the prisoners is growing. Read more about Support for Palestinian political prisoners is gaining momentum
Gilboa Prison 19 September 2011
Palestinian political prisoner Ameer Makhoul writes about a recent “watermelon party” amongst fellow prisoners, and the struggle for liberation that continues. Read more about The story of the watermelon and the forty prisoners
30 June 2011
While Britain keeps Sheikh Raed Saleh as a political prisoner, another Palestinian citizen of Israel who has been persecuted for his work advocating for his community’s rights remains in Israeli prison. Read more about Janan Abdu on the detention of her husband, political prisoner Ameer Makhoul
30 May 2011
Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority rights in Israel, and Nadi al-Aseer, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, filed a pre-petition on 11 May demanding an end to detention in prison facilities run by Israel’s secret service agency. Read more about Rights groups challenge Israeli secret service impunity
6 May 2011
A year ago today, Palestinian civil society leader Ameer Makhoul, an Israeli citizen, was arrested from his Haifa home after it was raided by Israeli forces. Makhoul, the coordinator of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Associations and an advocate of boycott, divestment and sanctions, warned The Electronic Intifada in January of 2010 that Israel was increasingly persecuting the Palestinian community in Israel, attempting to cut the community off from the rest of the Palestinian national movement. “Israel uses its legal system and its laws on citizenship and loyalty to the Jewish state to achieve this,” Makhoul said. Read more about Palestinian civil society leader Ameer Makhoul arrested one year ago today