June 1 - Ahmad Sa'adat transferred to Hadarim prison from Nafha...
QUOTE
"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" ’ and to preserve a logical and cohesive balance, and to continue my determination to resist your occupation alongside the sons and daughters of our people, in spite of the limited space that you impose on my already-limited movements as a ‘prisoner for freedom!’"
-Ahmad Sa'adat
NEWS
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The last hearing of the military trial of Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, took place on May 10, 2008 at Ofer Military Base in Ramallah, Palestine. This trial has been delayed on multiple occasions, and despite Sa'adat's having been held in custody, of the Palestinian Authority under U.S. and British Guard, and then by the Israeli military after their attack on Jericho Prison on March 14, 2006, he has never been tried.
He is charged with a laundry list of "security offenses," political in nature: for example, membership in a forbidden organization, holding a post in a forbidden organization, and "incitement," for a speech condemning the Israeli military's murder of the man who held his post before him, Abu Ali Mustafa. Sa'adat refuses to cooperate with the court, pointing out that it is an illegitimate court enforcing an illegal military occupation, and acting as a weapon of the occupation, to persecute Palestinian leaders and political activists and to undermine the Palestinian people's political activity.
UPDATES
June 1, 2008 - Ahmad Sa'adat transferred to Hadarim prison from Nafha prison
May 30, 2008 - Abla Sa'adat speaks to celebration of the release of Mohammad Kana'anah, General Secretary of Abna'a el-Balad movement
May 18, 2008 - Soccer tournament in Gaza calls for freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat
May 11, 2008 - Ahmad Sa'adat greets Palestinian people on Nakba anniversary at hearing
April 24, 2008 - March and rally in Nablus for Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian prisoners
April 17, 2008 - Join the Friends of Ahmad Sa'adat Campaign!
April 17, 2008 - Statement from Canadian Arab and Palestinian organizations on Prisoners' Day
March 26, 2008 - American lawyer: Solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian prisoners against illegitimate occupation courts
March 13, 2008 - 2nd Anniversary of the Abduction of Ahmad Sa'adat
January 15, 2008 - 6th Anniversary of Ahmad Sa'adat's Detention (English | French)
December 4, 2007 - International League of People's Struggle issues statement in support of Ahmad Sa'adat
November 26, 2007 - Sa'adat in "collective isolation" in Nafha; trial to meet next January 27
November 23, 2007 - Sa'adat transferred to remote Nafha prison; report on November 18 hearing
November 3, 2007 - National Lawyers Guild in the United States supports the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat
September 17, 2007 - Abla Sa'adat: Urgent medical care being denied to Ahmad Sa'adat
September 19, 2007 - Sa'adat: Decision to close Nafha association by the PA is illegal
September 17, 2007 - Sa'adat calls upon Palestinian people to uphold their national rights
September 9, 2007 - Palestinian political prisoners defy occupation courts, prisons
August 1, 2007 - Arab American Union Members Council in US issues call for Palestinian prisoners
July 30, 2007 - PLC member condemns Israeli trial of secretary-general of the PFLP
July 29, 2007 - Prisoners' support organization calls for release of PFLP leader Ahmad Sa'adat
July 29, 2007 - Sa'adat rejects Israeli charges against him
PRIOR NEWS
May 30, 2007 - Defiant Malluh refuses to testify against PFLP Secretary-General Sa'adat
May 30, 2007 - Court case of Sa'adat postponed until July 29
May 4, 2007 - Inter-Parliamentary Union expresses concern about Sa'adat case
The following audio interviews, from Flashpoints Radio on KPFA, were recorded on March 14, 2006 following the siege on Jericho prison:
LISTEN NOW: Canadian journalist Jon Elmer (mp3 file)
LISTEN NOW: Palestinian writer Ali Abunimah (mp3 file)
The following video features Raji Sourani, one of Ahmad Sa'adat's attorneys, discussing the complicity and coordination of the US and the British in the Israeli siege on Jericho prison:
The following video features an interview (in Arabic, with French subtitles) with Ahmad Sa'adat, while he was held in Jericho prison:
The following video contains clips of various news programs that ran on the evening of March 14, 2006. Included are both programs from Arab media and Israeli government television; the latter is useful, if only to better understand the propaganda about Sa'adat transmitted through Zionist media.