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05 May 2013
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Occupied Ramallah, 5 May 2013 - Addameer is pleased to announce that our director Sahar Francis will be conducting a speaking tour in the United States in the month of May.
This tour comes at a crucial moment: Over 4,900 Palestinians are detained by Israel, including 236 children, 14 elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council and 170 administrative detainees held without charge or trial. Since 1967, over 52 prisoners have died from medical neglect and 73 from torture during interrogation, most recently 64 year old Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh who was denied cancer treatment. Since 2011, Palestinian political prisoners are continuously on hunger strike to protest their arbitrary arrest and detention, including Ayman Abu Daoud, who has been on hunger strike for over 3 weeks. Meanwhile in the United States, 166 prisoners are still detained in Guantanamo Bay, many of them on hunger strike to protest their extrajudicial incarceration, especially those who have served years without being charged. African-American children in Cook County, Illinois make up 71% of youth arrests despite only being 32% of the total population. At Pelican Bay Maximum Security Prison in California, mass hunger strikes regularly erupt in protest of the inhumane conditions.
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| 02 May 2013
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Occupied Ramallah, 2 May 2013 - Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association’s lawyer was able to visit hunger striking detainee Ayman Abu Daoud yesterday, 1 May 2013, in Megiddo Prison. Ayman is 32 years old, from Hebron and was re-arrested on 13 February 2012.
According to Addameer’s lawyer, Abu Daoud started an open hunger strike on 14 May 2013, to reject his re-arrest and detention after his release in the last prisoner exchange on 18 October 2011. He was given amnesty after serving 7 years of a 36 year sentence. The Occupation’s prosecution is now seeking to have him serve the remaining 29 years of his previous sentence as prescribed in Article 186 of Military Order 165, under the pretext of violating the terms of his release in a prisoner exchange deal.
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| 17 April 2013
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Occupied Ramallah, 17 April 2013 - On Palestinian Prisoners Day, Addameer reaffirms its commitment to freeing the Palestinian prisoners and detainees in the Occupation’s prisons. Addameer reaffirms that the prisoners’ cause is the cause of the Palestinian people as a whole. Their struggle is central to the liberation of Palestinian land and the return of its’ people. It represents the frontline of peace and justice. |
| 11 April 2013
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Occupied Ramallah, 11 April 2013 – Addameer Prisoner Support and Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is pleased to announce the launch of its new website for its upcoming ‘Stop Administrative Detention’ campaign.
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| 11 April 2013
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Occupied Ramallah, 11 April 2013 – Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association condemns yesterday’s arrest of former Palestinian hunger striker Thaer Halahala by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Thaer was arrested from his home in Ramallah. At 2 am yesterday, IOF simultaneously surrounded both Thaer’s family home in the village of Kharas near Hebron and Thaer’s home in Ramallah, though they did not enter the home in Kharas.
In Ramallah, IOF first ransacked a neighbor’s house, blindfolded him and them used him as a human shield to enter Thaer’s house. At the time, Thaer, his wife, his sister, and his two children were in the house. Thaer has a 3-year old daughter and a newborn baby of 20 days.
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| 10 April 2013
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Ramallah, April 10, 2013—Addameer and Defence for Children International Palestineexpress deep concern about the arrest and mistreatment of a Palestinian child with dual American citizenship by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Silwad on Friday.
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