"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!’"
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.
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.