[Ppnews] Support Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike!

[Political Prisoner News]

Developments on Palestinian Prisoners' Hunger Strike - Action Needed

http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/

Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners is more urgent than ever. Since 
the announcement of 
<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/supporths0911.html>Palestinian prisoners' 
hunger strike against the isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat and all other 
prisoners held in solitary confinement, and against torture and 
humiliation for prisoners and their families and visitors, Israeli 
prison officials have stepped up their threats against Palestinian 
prisoners participating in the hunger strike.

The strike begins today, Tuesday, September 27. The Israeli Minister 
of Internal Security, at a meeting in Ramon and Naqab Prisons, has 
threatened to escalate repression against prisoners, threatening to 
move all prisoners participating in the hunger strike into isolation 
and solitary confinement, and to forcibly transfer those prisoners to 
other prisons in the occupation prison system. Prisoners are 
frequently transferred by occupation forces in an attempt to break up 
social bonds and disrupt organizing against prison repression.

For decades, Palestinian prisoners have engaged in hunger strikes to 
demand - and win - their rights, putting their bodies on the line 
once more to demand the freedom and dignity of themselves, their 
people, their homeland and their nation. Palestinian prisoners have 
announced that they will not be moved from their course by the 
threats of the occupiers. Prisoners' representatives have confirmed 
that Sa'adat and fellow isolated leader Jamal Abu al-Haija, in 
isolation with Sa'adat, will join in the strike themselves.

Furthermore, prisoners announced that they will reject all prison 
orders, refusing to wear uniforms, stand up for daily counts, or 
accept food. The situation is more urgent than ever as prisoners 
begin their strike. The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat calls upon all 
solidarity, international justice and human rights groups and 
organizations to join us to demand freedom, dignity and justice for 
Palestinian prisoners.

TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT AHMAD SA'ADAT AND ALL PALESTINIAN PRISONERS!

1.<http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Diplomatic+missions/Web+Sites+of+Israeli+Missions+Abroad.htm> 
Picket, protest or call the Israeli embassy or consulate in your 
location and demand the immediate freedom of Ahmad Sa'adat and all 
Palestinian political prisoners. Make it clear that you support the 
demands of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike!

2. Distribute the free downloadable 
<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/flyer-as.pdf>Campaign to Free Ahmad 
Sa'adat flyer in your community at local events.

3. Write to the International Committee of the Red Cross and other 
human rights organizations to exercise their responsibilities and act 
swiftly to demand that the Israelis ensure that Ahmad Sa'adat and all 
Palestinian prisoners are freed from punitive isolation. Email the 
ICRC, whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the conditions 
of prisoners, at 
<mailto:jerusalem.jer at icrc.org>jerusalem.jer at icrc.org, and inform 
them about the urgent situation of Ahmad Sa'adat.

4. Email the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat 
at<mailto:info at freeahmadsaadat.org> info at freeahmadsaadat.org with 
announcements, reports and information about your local events, 
activities and flyer distributions.

Support Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike!
by the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons issued a 
statement on Sunday, September 25, 2011, stating that they plan to 
begin an open-ended hunger strike on September 27, 2011, demanding an 
end to the isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat, an end to isolation for all 
Palestinian political prisoners, and an end to the policies of 
repression and humiliation against visitors to the prisoners, 
including denial of family visits and visitors being stopped, 
searched, and impeded at Israeli occupation checkpoints.  The 
prisoners are also demanding an end to abuse and humiliation of 
prisoners while they are transferred from one prison to another.

The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat stands in solidarity with the 
Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike and calls for people around the 
world to join their voices to the prisoners' call for justice.

Ahmad Sa'adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the 
<http://www.pflp.ps/>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 
and a Palestinian national leader, has been imprisoned by Israeli 
occupation forces since his kidnapping in March 13, 2006.  He was 
abducted in a violent Israeli military raid from a Palestinian 
Authority prison where he had been unjustly held without charge or 
trial for over four years under U.S. and British guard.  He has been 
in isolation for over two years following his calls for resistance to 
the Israeli assault on Gaza in winter 
2009.  (<http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/>Learn more about Ahmad Sa'adat here.)

The prisoners' statement follows:

We, the comrades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 
in the Zionist prisons and detention centers, declare to the 
steadfast, struggling, brave masses of the Palestinian people and to 
all free people in the world:

We announce that we will begin an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday 
morning, September 27, 2011, in response to the official policies of 
the Zionist government and its fascist prison administration.  We 
demand our rights and our dignity, as we struggle for the victory of 
our values and ideals.

Our goals for this hunger strike:
End the solitary confinement and isolation of our comrade, General 
Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 
member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO Central 
Council, Ahmad Sa'adat, Abu Ghassan.
End the policy of isolation for all prisoners;
End the policy of systematic humiliation by the occupation army 
against the Palestinian people at checkpoints and crossings, 
particularly targeting visitors to prisons, and end the arbitrary 
denial of visits to the prisoners, especially the prisoners from the 
Gaza Strip.  End the humiliation and abuse of prisoners during transfer.
The principles of our revolution include the rejection of all forms 
of injustice, and for us to struggle and confront the occupier in all 
areas and places in our own manner.  Accordingly, we call upon all of 
the Palestinian and Arab people, political forces and institutions, 
human rights and civil society organizations, to raise their voices 
for us, so that we do not become easy prey for a vicious 
occupier.  We promise to all of our people, and to the legacy of the 
martyrs of Palestine, that we will continue on our path until victory.

Great glory to the martyrs . . .
Victory to the revolution . . .
Victory is inevitable.

TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT AHMAD SA'ADAT AND ALL PALESTINIAN PRISONERS!

1.<http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Diplomatic+missions/Web+Sites+of+Israeli+Missions+Abroad.htm> 
Picket, protest or call the Israeli embassy or consulate in your 
location and demand the immediate freedom of Ahmad Sa'adat and all 
Palestinian political prisoners.

2. Distribute the free downloadable 
<http://freeahmadsaadat.org/flyer-as.pdf>Campaign to Free Ahmad 
Sa'adat flyer in your community at local events.

3. Write to the International Committee of the Red Cross and other 
human rights organizations to exercise their responsibilities and act 
swiftly to demand that the Israelis ensure that Ahmad Sa'adat and all 
Palestinian prisoners are freed from punitive isolation.  Email the 
ICRC, whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the conditions 
of prisoners, at 
<mailto:jerusalem.jer at icrc.org>jerusalem.jer at icrc.org, and inform 
them about the urgent situation of Ahmad Sa'adat.

4. Email the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat 
at<mailto:info at freeahmadsaadat.org> info at freeahmadsaadat.org with 
announcements, reports and information about your local events, 
activities and flyer distributions.

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For more information about the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat: 
<<http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/>www.freeahmadsaadat.<http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/>org>; 
<<mailto:info at freeahmadsaadat.org>info at freeahmadsaadat.org>; 
<<http://twitter.com/freeahmadsaadat>twitter.com/freeahmadsaadat>.




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