Dirar Abu Sisi

Islamophobia in the US is mainstream

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 20:14
On this week’s podcast: New reports show that Islamophobia is on the rise, and that attacks, hate crimes and individual prejudices are not just happening in a vacuum.

Israel breaks pledge to allow imprisoned Gaza engineer family visits

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
24 June 2013

Still in solitary confinement three years after his abduction, Dirar Abu Sisi has suffered severe weight loss.

Israel “tried to banish me for 28 years,” says hunger striker Ayman Sharawna

Joe Catron
Gaza City
25 March 2013

During the last month of his protest, Sharawna’s captors only allowed him use the bathroom twice a day.

Samer Issawi vows to continue hunger strike following Jerusalem court sentence today

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 19:09
Hunger striker sentenced by Jerusalem court for eight months but faces a further twenty years under military court order.

Gaza engineer kidnapped from Ukraine goes on hunger strike over solitary confinement

Joe Catron
Gaza Strip
14 September 2012
Dirar Abu Sisi, the deputy engineer of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, is in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison after being kidnapped from Ukraine.

Think of Others: In Gaza's darkness, Mahmoud Darwish's words provide inspiration

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 02:51
The author writes this article while sitting in the darkness during the a Gaza power cut and, with the inspiration of Mahmoud Darwish’s words, remembers the Palestinian political detainees, especially Dirar Abu Sisi and Mahmoud Sarsak.

Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes continue as Israel violates agreements

Linah Alsaafin
Ramallah
5 June 2012
Since the end of the mass hunger strike in the early hours of 15 May, rumors of Israel reneging on the agreement have solidified into facts.

Former professors refute Israel's indictment of kidnapped Gaza engineer

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 04:00
Former professors of Dirar Abu Sisi, the engineer from Gaza who went missing during a train trip in Ukraine last February, refute allegations in Israel’s indictment that the man was taught weapons systems at university. The indictment also claims that one of Abu Sisi’s professors studied at a military engineering school in east Ukraine, though no such school exists, the Associated Press has found.

Israel admits role in disappearance of Gaza engineer

Jonathan Cook
24 March 2011

Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Palestinian engineer from Gaza who went missing more than a month ago while traveling on a train in the Ukraine.

Family of engineer believed kidnapped by Israel speak out

Rami Almeghari
Jabalia refugee camp
16 March 2011

Gaza power plant official Derar Abu Sisi went missing in Ukraine earlier this year and is now believed to be held in an Israeli prison. Rami Almeghari reports for The Electronic Intifada.

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