April 28: New letter from Sa'adat from isolation on hunger strike calls for action
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QUOTE
"This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this ‘kangaroo court'..."
-Ahmad Sa'adat
LINKS
4/29/2012 - Ahmad Sa'adat transferred to Ramle prison hospital from isolation
4/28/2012 - Take Action for Ahmad Sa'adat and Hunger Striking Prisoners!
4/28/2012 - Text of letter from Ahmad Sa'adat on hunger strike
4/28/2012 - PFLP prisoners reject occupation offer to end Sa'adat's isolation in exchange for end of hunger strike
4/25/2012 - Scottish Trades Union Congress supports Palestinian prisoners' strike
4/17/2012 - Palestinian prisoners launch Hunger Strike for Dignity on Palestinian Prisoners' Day
3/25/2012 - Danish campaign for Ahmad Sa'adat issues new t-shirts
2/8/2012 - Khader Adnan: Dying to Live, Fighting for Freedom
1/30/2012- Solidarity with Khader Adnan!
1/29/2012 - Sa'adat from Isolation: Security Cooperation and PA Political Detention Must End
1/29/2012 - Sumoud Sa'adat: Negotiations will not free Palestinian prisoners
1/15/2012 - 10 Years in Prison, 10 Years of Struggle: On the Anniversary of the Abduction of Ahmad Sa'adat
11/2/2011 - Occupy Oakland protesters support Ahmad Sa'adat
10/27/2011 - URGENT - Take Action - Isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat continued in violation of promise to prisoners
10/18/2011 - Victory on the Way in Hunger Strike - Sa'adat in Hospital, continuing Strike
10/18/2011 - Campaign congratulates Palestinian People on Prisoner Liberation - Sa'adat's statement on the prisoner exchange
10/15/2011 - National Lawyers Guild Supports Striking Prisoners
10/12/2011 - Hunger Strike Update - Health of Ahmad Sa'adat in Jeopardy
10/11/2011 - Twitter Call for Hunger Strike Support
10/2/2011 - Updates and news from Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike
10/2/2011 - Call from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
9/27/2011 - New Flyer Available about Hunger Strike (Download PDF)
9/27/2011 - New Developments in Palestinian Prison Hunger Strike: Solidarity Needed
9/27/2011 - Solidarity with California Hunger Strikers
9/25/2011 - Support Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike
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Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, is one of nearly 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. These political prisoners, men, women and children, are activists, organizers and political leaders of the Palestinian people.
Sa'adat was sentenced to 30 years in the occupation prisons on December 25, 2008. On March 18, 2009, Sa'adat was moved into isolation at Asqelan prison, facing serious medical consequences. In June 2009, Sa'adat engaged in a nine-day hunger strike against his isolation. On August 10, 2009, Sa'adat was moved from the isolation cells at Asqelan to the isolation unit at Ramon prison in the Naqab desert. Sa'adat's isolation has since been extended repeatedly.
Sa'adat, with five other Palestinian prisoners, was kidnapped by the Israeli military on March 14, 2006 after a siege upon the prison in Jericho, where he was being held under a U.S. and British guard at a Palestinian Authority prison.
This is a campaign of human rights activists and concerned people from around the world, coming together to address the travesty of justice taking place, and calling for justice and freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian political prisoners.
We are asking you now to join us in calling upon international human rights organizations to make clear statements about and prioritize this case. Ahmad Sa'adat is a prisoner of conscience, subject to the illegitimate military courts of an illegal military occupation. Indeed, the "security-related charges" against him, such as they are, embody political persecution and targeting for repression due to political activity, including such charges as membership in a forbidden organization (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, of which he is General Secretary), holding a post in a forbidden organization, and incitement - for a speech delivered after the murder of Abu Ali Mustafa, the previous General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, by the Israeli military, as he worked in his office.
Ahmad Sa'adat is joined by thousands of other Palestinian prisoners, including other Palestinian political leaders, in facing imprisonment by the authorities of an illegal military occupation. These include 36 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in 2006 and 3 government ministers, including Sa'adat and Marwan Barghouti, prominent Palestinian leader. Abdelaziz Dweik, chair of the PLC, was recently released after three years in prison.
Your help and support are needed to secure justice and freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian political prisoners. Please take action today!
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