Immediate action needed to ensure Israel respects hunger-strikers’ rights

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Thursday February 21, 2013 19:27 by Joint Press Release – Ad-Dameer, Al-Haq and PHR | IMEMCNEWS Ramallah-Jaffa, 20 February 2013 – Addameer, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) express their grave concern for the health of four Palestinian hunger-strikers and outrage […]

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Interview with Addameer’s Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement

Asa Winstanley  The Electronic Intifada  London 1 March 2012 Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate in support of hunger striking administrative detainee Hana al-Shalabi, 27 February 2012. (Issam Rimawi / APA images) Addameer is a Palestinian human rights organization that works to support political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian jails. The center offers free legal aid […]

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Interview: Palestinian rights defender banned from traveling tastes freedom in Geneva

Adri Nieuwhof  The Electronic Intifada Geneva 1 March 2012 Shawan Jabarin (Adri Nieuwhof) For most of the past six years, Israel has forbidden Shawan Jabarin, a prominent human rights advocate and former administrative detainee, from leaving the occupied West Bank. On exception, he was allowed travel to Geneva this week to meet Frank La Rue, […]

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Palestinian Al-Haq human rights activist barred from attending UN meeting

Director-General of al-Haq organization Shawan Jabarin Press TV Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:12PM GMT Israel’s security apparatus, Shin Bet, has prevented head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, al-Haq, from leaving Israel to attend a UN meeting. Director-General of al-Haq organization Shawan Jabarin was set to attend a UN Human Rights Council conference in […]

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Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evidence emerges ~ by Charlotte Silver

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada | 3 December 2011 Newly discovered video footage shows the Israeli army in Nilin village the day US activist Tristan Anderson was shot. (Oren Ziv /ActiveStills ) “If he had been a Palestinian, he would have gone to the Ramallah hospital […]

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PRESS RELEASE | Reprisals & Collective Punishment against Civilians Israel’s Response to the Aug 18 Eilat Incidents

Gaza Under Attack- in pictures | Part 1 | Part 2 | AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ref. 274/2011 DATE: 23 AUGUST 2011 As an organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is concerned with the escalation in violence in the Gaza Strip, the […]

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Press Release | The ‘Price Tag’ Policy.. A Surge in Settler Violence against Palestinians

AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REF.: 211/2011 DATE: 8 JUNE 2011 As an organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely concerned about the surge in settler violence against Palestinians, the recent example being the burning of a mosque in the West Bank […]

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