headManal

FREE MANAL AND NOUR

Petition to Release Manal and Nour

A Women in Black (Vienna) vigil demanding freedom for
political prisoners. April 1, 2005.

Dear Adameer members,

Women's Organization for Political Prisoner (WOFPP) collected signatures to a petition for the immediate release of Manal. Now there are some 200 individual signatories and 13 organizations.

We submitted the petition with the signatures to the Israeli commander in chief, the Defense Minister and to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Below : the petition with the signatures. We hope that it will help the campaign to release Manal. We will continue to organize activities for Manal's release. We support the release of all the Palestinian political prisoners.

Sincerely
Hava Keller
Tirtza Tauber

The petition (we sent the petition with the Addameer press release):

Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) joins the campaign launched by Addameer (Addameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association, situated in Ramallah) to free Manal Ghanim. Below is WOFPP’s petition calling for the immediate release of Manal. We invite you to join this petition as a private person and/or an organization.

To join the petition send your name and/or the name of your organization to: trn1@zahav.net.il or call: +972-3-5227124.

Free Manal!

Manal Naji Mahmoud Ghanim, 29 years old, mother of four, from Tulkarem Refugee Camp, was arrested in April 2003 by the Israeli army and sentenced in a military court in the occupied West Bank to 50 months in prison. Manal, who suffers from Thalasemia, was arrested when pregnant and shortly after that gave birth to her son Nour. Nour is now a year and half old. Both are held in Hasharon Prison (Telmond).

The prison authorities do not provide Manal and her son with the necessary medical care, nor do they provide Nour with adequate food or toys. The prison authorities even refuse to let the family bring any toys for Nour. In addition to the daily suffering in prison, it happens, as on November 28, 2004, that the wardens attack the women prisoners with tear gas and water hoses. While such a violent act represents severe harassment for all the prisoners, for a baby it actually is a real danger. In fact, Nour was ill for at least six weeks following this attack.

Manal has another two sons and a daughter. The younger boy, 7-years old Maged, suffers from sickle cell anemia. Due to his health condition, he needs hospitalization every ten days. At these times, Maged desperately needs his mother’s support.

We, the undersigned, are seriously concerned about the deterioration of Manal's, Nour's and their family’s health, caused by Manal's continuous imprisonment. We demand to immediately free Manal Naji Mahmoud Ghanim.

Signed (in alphabetic order):

 

 

 

 

 Individuals:

 

 

 

 

 

Marie-Ange

 

Marseille france

George 

Abendstern

 

Dorit

Abramovitch

Marketing Coordinator ONE IN NINE, Tel Aviv

Paula

Abrams-Hourani

Vienna, Austria

Nuha

Abu Zaed

Rahat

Sliman

Abu Zaed

Rahat

Agustín Gómez

Acosta

Secretaire Géneral, Secretariado Permanente de CGT-A

Johanna

Alberti

UK

Orly

Almi

Tel Aviv

Tali

Almi

Tel Aviv

Tamar

Almog

Tel Aviv

Nitza

Aminov

Jerusalem

Chaya

Amir

Tel Aviv

Daphna

Amit

Jerusalem

Noriko

Aoyagi

Women in Black in Vienna, Austria.

Hanan

Aruri

 

Roy

Arush

 

Ightidal

Atamla

Nazereth

Itaf

Awad

 

Uri

Ayalon

Tel Aviv

Dr. Edward

Badeen

Linda

Balfe

Manchester

Iris

Bar 

Haifa

Yoav

Bar

Haifa

Osnat

Bar Or

Pardes Chana

Anne-Marie

Barral

France

Bernard

Barral

France

Dominique

Barrios Delgado

Paris

Yossi

Bartal

Alternative Information Center

Andre

Barthelemy

President, Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l'Homme ( France )

Brita

Bastogi

Bruxelles Belgium

Michel

Belis

 

Esther

Ben chur

Karkoor

Adv. Smadar

Ben Natan

Tel Aviv

Fadi

Président des Composantes de la Communauté Arabe de Belgique (CoCABe(

Elat

Benda

Kfar Saba, New Profil

Younes,

Benkirane

Informaticien, Paris, France

Yotam 

Ben-Meir

Jaffa

Tamar

Berger

Tel Aviv

Michel

Bilis

Union juive francaise pour la Paix (Paris- France)

Rachel

Bilski-Cohen

 

Yehudit

Blank

 

Prof. Emeritus Joyce ,

Blau

Professor Emeritus of the French Institute for Study of Oriental Civilizations and Languages

B.

Boitte

Bruxelles - Belgique

Aude

Bonnin

 

Janine

Borel

La Tour D'aigues, France

Prof. Haim

Bresheeth

Chair of Media and Cultural Studies, Director of ResearchSchool of Social Science, Media and Cultural StudiesDocklands Campus University of East London

Sami

Buckari

Jaffa

Dr. Hisham

 

Bustani

Committee Against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy, Jordan

Smadar

Carmon

Toronto, Canada, Coalition for Just Peace in Palestine and Israel

Mar Martinez

Carnicer

Valencia.España

Marita

Cassan

Manchester

Samantha

Cavalli

 

Lin

Chalozin-Dovrat

 

Rawyah

Chamdan

Nazereth

Patti

Chandler

 

Helen

Chessum

Devon England

Lenore

Chinn

 San Francisco, USA

Chassia 

Chomski Porat

Ya'ad

Linda

Clair

 

Anat

Cohen

Rehovot

Prof Dan

Cohen

Dept. of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and The Center for Rationality and Interactive DecisionsThe Hebrew University, Jerusalem , Israel

Liliane

Cordova Kaczerginski

UJFP jewish french union for peace

Zeina

Daher

France (from lebanon)

Prof. Sonia

Dayan Herzbrun

Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-7

Emmi

de Jesus

Secretary General, GABRIELA-National Alliance of Women's Organization in the Philippines

Silvia

Dehn

Berlin

Daniel Dekkers

Dekkers

Belgium

 

Isa

Dempsey

Freedom, CA, USA

Athena Elizabeth

DeRasmo

Graduate student University of Haifa, Israel

Dr. Aim

Deuel Luski

 

Nomi

Eden

Ramat Gan, Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

Hassan

El Madani

Jeunesse Ouvriere Marocaine

Shulamit

El'ad

Atzmon

Juno Sylva

Englander

President Women in Action-Global Mothers for the Environment and Peace,Vienna, Austria

Margaret

Evans

UK

Naama

Farjoun

London, UK

Dror

Feiler

Composer, Musician & Artist

Pnina

Feiler,

Reg. Nurse, Kibbutz Yad-Hanna

Fanny

 

Filosof

Membre du Collectif femmes en noir contre les centres fermés et les expulsions

Micki

Fisher

Tel Aviv

Bernard

Flichy

 

Odile

Flichy

 

Sharo

Galpaz

 

Odile

Gerault

France

Edna

Gluckman

Tel Aviv, Women's organization for Political Prisoners

Bilha

Golan

Israel

Yokheved

Gonen

 

Shlomit

Gorin

San Francisco, CA

Jean-Guy

Greilsamer

l'Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix

Heidi

Grunebaum

Cape Town, South Africa

Georges

Gumpel

Union  juive française pour la paix

Amos

Gvirtz

 

Irit

Halperin

Boston

Youval

Halperin

Tel Aviv

Issam

Hambouz

Jordan

Roni

Hammermann

Jerusalem

Yehudit

Harel

 

Bodil

Heinoe

Denmark

Aharon

Hirsch

Tel Aviv

Julia

Hirsch

Brooklyn, New York

Dr. Tikva

Honig Parnass

Between The Lines, Jerusalem

Bushara

Ibrahim

Nazereth

Dov

Irmiya

Nahariah

Anat

Israeli

Atzmon, Oranim College

Hazem

Jamjoum

Toronto, Canada

Yves

Jardin

Retired teacher - Douarnenez , France

Francisco

Javier Izco

Ecuador

Bette

Jones

Co-ordinator of NETWORK OF OXFORD WOMEN (NOW)  FOR JUSTICE & PEACE 

Nicole   

Kahn

UJFP jewish french union for peace LYON FRANCE

Daphna

Kaminer

Jerusalem

Aya

Kaniuk

Tel Aviv

Case.

Karenza-Monica

Psychotherapist

Haggai

Katriel

 Haifa

Prof. Ameritus Jakob

Katriel

Technion, Haifa

Tamar 

Katz

Tel Aviv

Prof. Adah 

Kay

London

Mary

Kay Myrmel

Minnetonka, MN USA

Jean

Kaye

Co-ordinator of NETWORK OF OXFORD WOMEN (NOW)  FOR JUSTICE & PEACE 

Adam

Keller

Holon

Hava

Keller

Tel Aviv, Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

Alizah

Keren

Kiryat Tivon

Amnon

Keren

Jerusalem

Nimrod

Kerrett

Tel Aviv

Yehudit

Keshet

Jerusalem, Israel , Lancaster, UK

Paul

Kessler

Physicist, Director of Research (retired), Hon. Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the French Society of  Physics

Aïma

Khamallah

Paris

Sana

Khsheiboun

Palestinian student at Rutgers the State Universityof New Jersey USA

Annelien

Kisch-Kroon

Ramat Hasharon

Iwajla

Klinke

Berlin

Yana

Knopova

Coordinator Coalition of Women for Peace

Lydie

Koch-Miramond

Astrophysicist,  Scientific Advisor to the French Atomic Energy Commission Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of the French Society of Physics

Treez

Kosterman

 

Adi

Kuntsman

Graduate student, Jerusalem and UK, Lancaster, UK

Prof. Yehuda

Kupferman

Tel Aviv, The Committee for a Democratic and Secular State

Orna

Lavi

Jaffa – Tel Aviv

Tamar 

Lehahn

Jerusalem

Ronit

Lentin

 

Corinna

Liebreich

Berlin

Toni

Liversage

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Denmark

Maisha

Liwaru

Pres. Heartland Muslim Women's Network

Ori

Llevin

 

DR. Marie-Noëlle

Lombrad

ACAT ( associated to the International Federation of Christians Opposing Torture)

Anne

Lund

Denmark

Thérèse

Mangot

Bruxelles

Dr. Ruchama

Marton

Tel Aviv, founder & president Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

Dr. Anat

Matar

 

Nicole 

Mayer

Brussels

Tamar

Mayer

Tel Aviv

Yosefa

Mekyton

Tel Aviv

Racheli

Merhav

Tel Aviv

Dovrat

Meron

 

Claire  

Mialhe

Dieupentale - France - French Jewish Union for Peace

Andreas

Moses

 

Susanne

Moses

Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

Colette

Moulaert

pediatrician  Medical Aid for the Third World Belgium

Ania

Mueller

Berlin

Shaul

Mugrabi Berger

 

Rawdah

Murkus

 

Norma

Musih

Tel Aviv

Edwards

Nadège

France

Shelly

Nativ

Harish

Ofer

Neiman

Jerusalem

Jessika

Nevo

 

Dr. David

Nir

Tel Aviv

Alex

Nissen

Women in black, Australia

Alvina

Nobrega-guilherme

étudiante , France

Gisèle

Noublanche

 la Ligue Internationale de Femmes pour la Paix et la Liberte, France

Brian

O'Connor

North Bay, CANADA

Edith

Ohri

Tel Aviv

Rose

Osborne

 

Dominique

Pallares

Medecin Evry

Joseph

Parisi

Physicist at the University of  Paris-11

Dave

Pearce

Manchester PSC (Plestine Solidarity Campaign), UK

Mireille 

Peloux

France

Lida

Perin

Berlin

Yossefa

Pick

Tel Aviv, Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

JC

Ponsin

Societe des amis d'Al-Rowwad;

JC Ponsin

Ponsin

La Societe des amis d'Al-Rowwad;

Michal

Pundack

Hertzeliah

Osi

Rachmilevich

 Sa'ar

Rev. Jim

Ray

 Poland, OH, USA

Hadas

Refaeli

 

Eitan

Reich

Tel Aviv

Prof. Tanya

Reinhart

Tel Aviv

Reumah

Rekhav

Tel Aviv

Geraldine

Robertson,

Women's Web - Women's Stories, Women's Actions,  CODEPINK Women for Peace

Ellen

Rohlfs

Holon

Iris

Ronen

 

Roee

 

Rosen

artist and author, B'nai Zion, Israel

Maura

Rosenfeld

Tel Aviv

Yaniv

Roznerr

 

Paula

Rubinek

 

Ruth

Russell

 Australia

Tina

Salhi

Women in Black, Vienna

Soumaya

Salti

France

Dominique

Schiff

Physicist, Director of Research, director of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the University of Paris-11

Isolde

Schönstein

ARGE Schöpfungsverantwortung

Itamar

Shachar

Haifa

Shirley

Shaked

Accountant, Hod  Hasharon

Vardit

Shalfi

Tel Aviv

Dr. Alice

Shalvi

Founding Chairwoman and currently Honorary President, Israel Women’s Network

Prof. Anton

Shammas

Professor of Comparative Literature University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA

Ruthi

Shapira

Haifa

Muborak

Sharipova

Director, Open Asia, Denmark

Aida

Shibli

 

Nomi

Shir

Omer

Alyah

Shtraus

Jaffa

Abudbabh

Shulamit

Nazereth

Aayshah

Sidawy

Ararah

Michal

Silberberg

Kfar Saba

 Eyal

Sivan

Filmmaker – Paris/Jerusalem

Samyah

Slamy

Nazereth

Cecile

Smith

Honolulu, Hawaii

Anat

Spiegel

Holland

Margaret

Stanton

Co-ordinator of NETWORK OF OXFORD WOMEN (NOW)  FOR JUSTICE & PEACE 

Ingrid

Steinitz

Copenhagen , Human Rights March

Jeff Abood

Stow

 Ohio, USA

Dan

Tamir

Tel Aviv

Tirtza

Tauber

Tel Aviv, Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

Eva

Teubal

Jerusalem

Nicole

Tonneau

''Groupe pas ce mur'', Bruxelles

Gerard

Toulouse

Physicist, Director of Research, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, member of the Academy of Technologies

Lily  

Traubmann

 Megido

D.

Vanhove

Brussels, Belgium

Roman

Vater

Tel Aviv

Karla

Vázquez

México D.F

Elisabeth,

Vitiello

Solidarité Palestine 18è, Paris, France

Christina B.

Waas

ARGE Schöpfungsverantwortung

Sarah   

Wachsmann Ollar

Texas, USA   Teacher

Rony

Wagner

 

Roy

Wagner

Tel Aviv

Micha

Wald

Brussels Belgium

Shani

Warner

Kfar Saba,  New Profile

Aviva  

Weisgal

Machsom Watch

Uri

Weltmann

Haifa

Elana

Wesley

Tel Aviv

Yossi

Wolfson

Jeusalem

Slam

Wudud

Nazereth

Shmuel

Yerushlmi

Poet

Uri

Zakhem

Kfar Saba

Edna

Zaritzky-Toledano

Haifa

Beate

Zilversmidt

Holon

Amalia

Ziv

Tel Aviv

 

 

 

 Organizations:

 

 

 

 

 Alternative  Information  Center

 

Al Zahraa Arab women organizaiton, Sakhnin

 

ARGE Schöpfungsverantwortung

 

Comite de lutte contre la barbarie et l'arbitraire

Composantes de la Communauté Arabe de Belgique ( CoCABe)

 

La Socite des amis d'Al-Rowwad;

 

Manchester PSC (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

NETWORK OF OXFORD WOMEN (NOW)  FOR JUSTICE & PEACE 

New Profile

 

 

Solidarité Palestine 18è, Paris, France

Sumoud: Political Prisoners Soliadrity

The Committee for a Democratic and Secular State

The Swiss Jewish Voice for a Just Peace between Israel and Palestine

Union of Palestenian Womens Committees, Ramallah, Palestine

Women in black, Marseille (France)

Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)