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  1. European Parliament delegation witnesses destruction in Gaza

    demanded the release of all political prisoners held in Israeli jails. “This visit and these meetings here ... independence. “The future of Palestine is at stake, we are calling on Palestinian political forces to work ... Gaza from all political groups, Morgantini stressed that the delegation had wanted to meet with all ...

    charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  2. Human Rights groups: "Prisoner Rights are Human Rights"

    and Political Rights (Ratified by Israel in 1991) Violence by prison guards Routine strip searches ... The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Prisoner Association, Arab Association for Human ... Delays in providing medical treatments Prevention of emotional and physical contact between prisoners and ...

    arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  3. Video: Palestinian woman "takes over" Israeli military vehicle at Ofer protest for hunger strikers

    and some 200 protesters who demonstrated in support of the Palestinian political prisoners’ hunger ... a Palestinian woman mounting an Israeli military vehicle amid protests near Ofer Prison in the Israeli-occupied ... West Bank on 1 May, in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. The video also shows ...

    Ali Abunimah - 08/03/2015 - 04:04

  4. Muhammad Allan wakes from coma, vows to continue hunger strike

    arrest and detention political prisoners Israel Prison Service Jamil al-Khatib Nablus Islamic Jihad ... unconscious last Friday. The Ma’an News Agency reported that the prisoner “immediately pledged to resume ... by one of Allan’s lawyers that the prisoner had previously “expressed willingness to stop the hunger ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment

  5. "I have never lived a settled life": Church of the Nativity deportees mark 10 years of exile

    up as a place of support for Palestinian political prisoners, in order to share the continued ... Palestine Bethlehem United Nations Gaza Palestinian political prisoners political prisoners hunger strike ... prisoner exchange in October, hundreds of Palestinians have joined this category, as 203 ex-detainees were ...

    Shahd Abusalama - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 2 comments

  6. Month in Pictures: October 2012

    Sarsak, Palestinian football player and former political prisoner, speaks during a press conference ... A T electronicintifada D O T net. Dub-Key Freedom Bus Samer Issawi hunger strike political prisoners south Hebron hills ... strike in an Israeli prison, announced his turning down of an invitation to see Barcelona play Real ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  7. Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship with Khader Adnan and his hunger strike for justice

    with Khader Adnan and other political prisoners, 7 February 2012. Fadi Arouri Xinhua Mousa Abu Maria ... Mousa Abu Maria Khader Adnan arrest and detention political prisoners administrative detention Beit ... spent nearly five years, from 1999 to 2003, in Israeli prisons. He spent an additional 14 months, from ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  8. 21 Palestinian journalists in Israeli prisons

    a prison where Israel has traditionally kept female political prisoners, is accused of “incitement,” ... release Palestinian prisoners, in Gaza City, on 5 June. Mohammed Asad APA images The number of Palestinian ... journalists in Israeli prisons has risen to 21. This includes eight media workers arrested since the start of ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  9. Gaza welcomes home former hunger striker Akram Rikhawi

    political prisoners held in Israeli prisons and after his request for early release was rejected. Rikhawi ... Former Palestinian prisoner Akram Rikhawi, center, is greeted as he is driven through the streets of the ... southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah following his release from an Israeli prison, 7 February. To Rikhawi’s ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment

  10. Israel puts "every possible obstacle" in way of respecting hunger strikers' rights, say doctors

    (IPS)- With more than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners weeks into an open-ended hunger strike in protest ... political authorities will decide not to do anything and not to release them on grounds of medical ... said that the Israeli Prison Service has placed every possible obstacle in the way of PHR-I doctors who ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  11. Adalah: Rescind order declaring Ansar al-Sajeen illegal

    release of political prisoners as part of peace negotiations, and assist and support prisoners’ families ... Prisoners’ Friends Association) an Illegal Organization On 13 November 2006, Adalah submitted a pre-petition ... Al-Sajeen (The Prisoners’ Friends Association) to be an illegal organization. Adalah Attorney Abeer Baker ...

    charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  12. Angela Davis: "support BDS, and Palestine will be free"

    members of the International Political Prisoners’ Committee that was just recently formed in Cape Town, ... prison industrial complex and why transnational security corporation G4S should be boycotted, in a recent ... say that participation in these solidarity movements here in the UK was so central to my own political ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 3 comments

  13. VIDEO: Former Irish hunger striker's message for Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner 55 days on hunger strike

    hunger strike. The strikes were sparked by punitive British conditions against political prisoners. Ten ... plight is deplorable… McKearney was among a group of seven Irish Republican prisoners who went on hunger ... strike at the notorious British-run Maze Prison in 1980. The following year 23 more prisoners, went on ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 4 comments

  14. From sadness to happiness on two days in Gaza

    political prisoners Palestinian Political Prisoners' Day Om Ibrahim Baroud ... mothers, wives, and daughters of current prisoners who are still held in Israel’s prison. This event was ... organized in anticipation of April 17, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Palestinians in Gaza flew doves in ...

    Shahd Abusalama - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 3 comments

  15. Month in Pictures: August 2012

    Palestinians at the park. Palestinian political prisoners Bilal Diab and Woroud Qasem were released from prison ... detention, 9 August. Saif Dahlah AFP Photo Former political prisoner and hunger striker Khader Adnan (R) ... by the Corrie family. Meanwhile, a former Israeli soldier is to serve a mere 45 days in prison on ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  16. BBC challenged for ignoring plight of Palestinian prisoners

    Amena Saleem The Electronic Intifada London 25 April 2012 Palestinian political prisoners are on ... Palestinian Political Prisoners' Day administrative detention Defence for Children ... idea. How could I not have known?” I heard those words on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (17 April) from ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  17. Prisoners determined to resist dangerous precedent set by Israel

    of Nablus on 14 June. Ahmad Al-Bazz ActiveStills Twenty-nine Palestinian prisoners suspended a hunger ... strike launched in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, who was ordered to remain in prison under administrative ... detention after completing a nearly 15-year prison sentence. But they are set to resume it if Kayed is not ...

    Charlotte Silver - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 3 comments

  18. Interview: why Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike is the focus of Women's Day in Palestine

    . Nowadays, we have six female prisoners. I think that it brings the issue of women as political prisoners ... administrative detention without charge or trial. Al-Shalabi is the second Palestinian prisoner in recent weeks ... draw attention to Israel’s use of administrative detention and mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  19. Israelis continue to abuse Palestinian prisoners

    prisons. (Mel Frykberg) RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS)- Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli jails ... boost the waning popularity of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Several prisoners spoke to ... prisoners have been outlawed and no longer occur. Most of the detainees were Fatah members, the movement ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  20. Security firm G4S under scrutiny in Norway and Sweden over involvement in Israel's rights abuses

    Israeli prisons where thousands of Palestinian political prisoners are held. Israel’s transfer of ... Global Compact NLWA Nick Buckles political prisoners Sweden Norway No to Veolia Action Group ... and Israeli prisons. Lisa Tegby, the vicar of Umeå,  told Swedish radio sation Studio One that she ...

    Adri Nieuwhof - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 3 comments

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