[Ppnews] Palestine - Khader Adnan - Dying to Live, Fighting for Freedom

[Political Prisoner News]

<http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/khaderadnan-feb8.html>Khader Adnan - 
Dying to Live, Fighting for Freedom

The situation of 
<http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/khaderadnan.html>Khader Adnan, 
imprisoned Palestinian activist held without charge or trial under 
administrative detention, is urgent. Khader Adnan has been on an 
ongoing hunger strike since December 17, 2011, protesting abuse of 
his family, torture and inhumane treatment, and the use of 
administrative detention to imprison Palestinian activists without 
charge or trial.

Khader Adnan has completed 53 days of hunger strike and is now in a 
severe medical condition. 
<http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428>Bobby Sands, the martyr 
of the Irish republican prisoners' movement, died after 66 days of 
hunger strike, demanding justice and human rights from his own 
colonial captors, much as Khader Adnan did today.

Ahmad Sa'adat, imprisoned Palestinian national leader, joined with 
Marwan Barghouti from his isolation cell today to urge the immediate 
release of Khader Adnan. The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat echoes 
this call and urges activists around the world to raise the call to 
free Khader Adnan, a symbol of the resistance, resilience, 
steadfastness and courage of Palestinian prisoners and the 
Palestinian people, who has put his body and his life on the line 
inside the occupation's jails, to claim his dignity, his rights, and 
the rights of his people.

TAKE ACTION: Please see the action items below, or write a letter and 
sign a petition at this widely circulated call: 
<http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/take-action-for-hunger-striking-palestinian-prisoner-khader-adnan/>http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/take-action-for-hunger-striking-palestinian-prisoner-khader-adnan/

Picket, protest or call the Israeli embassy or consulate in your 
location and demand the immediate freedom of Khader Adnan, Ahmad 
Sa'adat and all Palestinian political prisoners. Make it clear that 
you are watching the situation of Khader Adnan and that Israel is 
responsible for his health and life, and demand an end to the use of 
isolation, solitary confinement, and administrative detention. Send 
us reports of your protests at Israeli embassies and consulates 
at<mailto:campaign at freeahmadsaadat.org>campaign at freeahmadsaadat.org.

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 prisoners' demands are implemented. Email 
the ICRC, whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the 
conditions of prisoners, at<mailto:JER_jerusalem at icrc.org> 
JER_jerusalem at icrc.org, and inform them about the urgent situation of 
Khader Adnan. Make it clear that arbitrary detention without charge 
or trial is unacceptable, and that the ICRC must act to protect 
Palestinian prisoners from cruel and inhumane treatment.

BACKGROUND

<http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428>Addameer details the 
experience of Khader Adnan with the Israeli occupation. He is 
currently held under administrative detention (arbitrary detention 
without charge or trial, based on secret evidence, and renewable 
indefinitely for repeated periods of up to six months.) Khader Adnan 
was issued a four-month administrative detention order on January 8, 
which was confirmed on February 6. This is the eighth time Adnan has 
been detained, and he has served a total of six years in Israeli 
prisons - mostly without charge or trial under the administrative 
detention scheme.

<http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428>Addameer reports:

Khader was arrested on 17 December 2011, when Israeli Occupying 
Forces (IOF) raided his home outside Jenin at 3:30 am. Before 
entering his house, soldiers used the driver that takes Khader's 
father to the vegetable market, Mohammad Mustafa, as a human shield 
by forcing him to knock on the door of the house and call out 
Khader's name while blindfolded. A huge force of soldiers then 
entered the house shouting. Recognizing Khader immediately, they 
grabbed him violently in front of his two young daughters and ailing mother.

The soldiers blindfolded him and tied his hands behind his back using 
plastic shackles before leading him out of his house and taking him 
to a military jeep. Khader was then thrown on his back and the 
soldiers began slapping him in the face and kicking his legs. They 
kept him lying on his back until they reached Dutan settlement, 
beating him on the head throughout the 10-minute drive. When they 
reached the settlement, Khader was pushed aggressively out of the 
jeep. Because of the blindfold, Khader did not see the wall right in 
front of him and smashed into it, causing injuries to his face.

Following his arrest, he was taken to interrogation, refused medical 
care and treatment, subject to physical abuse and mistreatment 
including being tied to a chair in a stressful position, causing 
extreme back pain, and pulling on his beard so hard that his hair was 
ripped out. Khader was subjected to abusive language about his 
family, and refused to speak any further to interrogators, as well as 
refusing food. In retaliation, he was placed into isolation and 
solitary confinement, denied family visits, awakened in the middle of 
the night and strip-searched. He has refused to end his strike, 
protesting the illegitimacy of his arbitrary detention by an illegal 
occupation authority as well as cruel and inhumane treatment and abuse.

This is not his first hunger strike - in 2005 he protested his 
isolation in Kfar Yuna with a 12-day hunger strike. Addameer has 
emphasized that the Israeli occupation is responsible for his life.


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

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