solitary confinement

Khader Adnan expresses solidarity with 30,000 hunger strikers in California prisons

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 17:09
“I announce my full solidarity with my 30,000 oppressed brothers in the American prisons,” former hunger striker Khader Adnan writes from Palestine.

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.

Veteran prisoner Maher Younis goes on hunger strike

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 08:48
Maher Younis has been in prison for 31 years; in a message from Gilboa jail, his fellow detainees are demanding his release.

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.

Dutch charities spurn G4S cash over abuse of Palestinian children

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 11:39
Money from security firm declared “undesirable” after its complicity in Israel’s occupation brought to charities’ attention.

"My brother is dying": an urgent appeal from family of hunger striker Samer Issawi

Malaka Mohammed
Gaza City
17 December 2012

Shireen Issawi speaks of the shock of seeing her brother in court.

Israeli prisons equipped by notorious security firm G4S hold Palestinian teens in solitary confinement

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Tue, 12/11/2012 - 15:29
Since July 2012, Israel has held six Palestinian boys in solitary confinement in G4S equipped Al Jalame prison, reports Defence for Children-Palestine.

Winning the battle of empty stomachs: hunger striker Bilal Diab interviewed

Linah Alsaafin
Jenin area
14 September 2012
Bilal Diab on his 77-day hunger strike in protest of administrative detention in Israeli prison.

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.

The Electronic Intifada Weekly Podcast featuring Shahd Abusalama on the end of Akram Rikhawi's hunger strike

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 20:57

On this week’s podcast: Shahd Abusalama talks about her meeting with Akram Rikhawi’s family, right before he ended his 102-day hunger strike in an Israeli prison; and much more!

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