[Ppnews] Occupation Courts Sentence Sa'adat to Six Months More of Isolation

Mon Oct 25 10:19:25 EDT 2010

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Courts Sentence Sa'adat to Six Months More of Isolation - Take Action!

The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat + www.freeahmadsaadat.org + 
<mailto:info at freeahmadsaadat.org>info at freeahmadsaadat.org

<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/isolationoct24.html>In yet another 
outrage and attack upon the humanity of Palestinian prisoners and the 
Palestinian people, Ahmad Sa'adat was sentenced to an additional six 
months in isolation inside Israeli prisons, an extension that will 
last until April 21, 2011. As actions and events took place 
throughout Palestine and around the world - in the United States, 
Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria 
and elsewhere - in support of Sa'adat's struggle to end isolation and 
hundreds of letters and petitions were delivered to prison officials 
from concerned human rights advocates around the world, the Israeli 
authorities have sentenced this Palestinian leader to another six 
months barred from human contact.

Sa'adat has been held in isolation for over 500 days, since March 19, 
2009. He has been confined without access even to the other prisoners 
in the isolation unit and deprived of basic human rights. His 
personal books have been confiscated and he is routinely denied 
access to media and reading material in any language other than 
Hebrew. He has been denied family visits, including from his wife 
Abla, and his lawyers have several times been barred from visiting 
him. His recreation time has been limited repeatedly.

Isolation and prevention of human contact is widely understood by 
human rights advocates to be ill-treatment that amounts to torture 
and/or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, in violation of the 
Geneva Conventions. Ongoing and repeated isolation that will now 
stretch to over two years, justified by vague declarations of 
"security" needs, indicate that the Israeli regime is dedicated to 
attempting to isolate Sa'adat not only from his fellow prisoners, but 
to isolate and silence his voice among the Palestinian people.

Sa'adat's ongoing isolation only serves to make clear time and again 
that the Israeli courts are merely an arm of the occupation, 
dedicated at all levels to maintaining the oppression of the 
Palestinian people and providing a "legal" pretext for ongoing 
brutality and human rights abuses.

Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the 
Liberation of Palestine, has been held in Israeli jails since March 
14, 2006, when he was abducted from Jericho prison, where he had been 
held in a Palestinian Authority prison under U.S. and British guard. 
While imprisoned in the PA jail in Jericho, he was elected to the 
Palestinian Legislative Council. He was sentenced to thirty years in 
prison on December 25, 2008 by an Israeli military court for his 
political activity, and has spent over 500 days in 
continually-renewed isolation at the present time.

The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat salutes the human rights and 
Palestine solidarity activists around the world who have rallied to 
struggle for Sa'adat and the approximately 7,000 prisoners held in 
the jails of the occupation. This work defeats the occupation's plans 
- it refuses to allow the Palestinian prisoners, on a Palestinian, 
Arab or international level, to be isolated. The voices of Ahmad 
Sa'adat and the Palestinian prisoners will be heard, and no bars or 
isolation will prevent that.

The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat calls upon all to confront this 
outrage - to continue to write, speak out, demonstrate, and demand 
that Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian prisoners achieve their 
freedom. Isolation will not silence Ahmad Sa'adat, the Palestinian 
prisoners or the cause of the Palestinian people!

TAKE ACTION TODAY!

1. The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat calls upon all supporters of 
justice and human rights to write to U.S. President Barack Obama and 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and demand an end to U.S. aid to 
Israel. The U.S. is responsible for Sa'adat's kidnapping - demand it end now!

Write here: 
<http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/action4.html>http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/action4.html

2. The Campaign in Solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat in Palestine is 
calling upon all supporters to write letters to the Israeli Prison 
Service and demand they end the practice of isolation, end human 
rights violations, and free Palestinian prisoners. Send an email to 
the Bureau of the Minister of Public Security at 
<mailto:sar at mops.gov.il>sar at mops.gov.il and to the Public Complaints 
Department at <mailto:mevaker at mops.gov.il>mevaker at mops.gov.il, and 
copy the following:

Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister, 
3, Kaplan Street, PO Box 187, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem, Israel, 
Fax: +972- 2-651 2631, Email: <mailto:pm_eng at pmo.gov.il>pm_eng at pmo.gov.il

Mr. Menachem Mazuz, Attorney General, Fax: + 972 2 627 4481; + 972 2 
628 5438; +972 2 530 3367

Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, Military Judge Advocate General, 
6 David Elazar Street, Hakirya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Fax: +972 3 608 
0366, +972 3 569 4526, Email: 
<mailto:arbel at mail.idf.il>arbel at mail.idf.il, 
<mailto:arbel at mail.idf.il>avimn at idf.gov.il

Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and 
Specialized Institutions in Geneva, Avenue de la Paix 1-3, 1202 
Geneva, Fax: +41 22 716 05 55, Email: 
<mailto:mission-israel at geneva.mfa.gov.il>mission-israel at geneva.mfa.gov.il

You may use our online form at: 
<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/action3.html>http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/action3.html.

3. Write a letter to Ahmad Sa'adat. Letters of support are important 
and demonstrate solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian 
prisoners - let him know that the world is demanding his freedom. 
Email the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat at 
<mailto:info at freeahmadsaadat.org>info at freeahmadsaadat.org with your 
letters, or use our contact form at: 
<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/contact.html>http://freeahmadsaadat.org/contact.html. 
We will send all letters received to Palestine. We also encourage you 
to write to him directly using this address: Ahmad Sa'adat, Ramon 
Prison, Ramon area, PO Box 699, Postal Code 80600, Israel.

The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat
<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/>http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org

<mailto:info at freeahmadsaadat.org>info at freeahmadsaadat.org

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