PFLP greets the prisoners, steadfast heroes of the struggle, on Palestinian Prisoners Day

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. We Fight Back | Apr 22, 2013 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine sent greetings of pride and appreciation to all Palestinian prisoners in the jails of the occupation, men and women, children and elders, […]

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Palestinians in the Netherlands commemorate the Palestinian Prisoners Day

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 07:57 PM ] AMSTERDAM, (PIC)– Palestinians in the Netherlands commemorated on Saturday the thirty-ninth anniversary of the Palestinian Prisoners Day, and hosted during the events the liberated prisoner Mahmoud Sarsak. During the event, the organizers wrote the names of the Palestinian prisoners on balloons carrying the colors of the Palestinian flag, […]

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Letter from Samer Issawi on Palestinian Prisoners Day (full text) Translation by @docjazzmusic

Musical Intifada | 18 April 2013 14:25 | Translation by Dr. Tariq Shadid aka Doc Jazz (See original Arabic text down below) Ramallah, April 17, 2013 From his room in Kaplan Medical Center, political prisoner Samer Issawi sent a letter via the lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner Society saying: “I am sending my greetings to […]

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VIDEO | Gazans rally to mark Prisoners’ Day

Gazans have staged a demonstration in the besieged Gaza Strip to mark the anniversary of Prisoners’ Day and to show their support for Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails, Press TV reports. PressTV | Jan 18, 2013 The demonstration, which had been organized by various national and Islamic groups, was staged in Gaza on Wednesday. “We […]

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Mass hunger strike in all occupation jails to mark Prisoners’ Day

[ PIC 17/04/2013 – 09:37 PM ] RAMALLAH, GAZA, (PIC)– Some 5,000 Palestinian captives in Israeli jails went on a one-day hunger strike on Wednesday to mark the Prisoners’ Day. The prisoners refused breakfast as part of a final warning message to leaders of the Prison Service to meet their fair and legitimate demands and […]

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Violent clashes in Aroub on the Prisoner’s Day anniversary

[ PIC 17/04/2013 – 09:21 PM ] AL-KHALIL, JENIN, NABLUS, (PIC)– Violent clashes broke out on Wednesday near the Aroub refugee camp north of al-Khalil following a raid by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF). Eyewitnesses told PIC that dozens of Israeli soldiers surrounded the camp’s main entrance, adjacent to the road between Bethlehem and al-Khalil, […]

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UFree Network (@Ufreenetwork) intensifies its activities in defense of prisoners

[ PIC 17/04/2013 – 07:19 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners stressed the fairness of the issue of prisoners, criminalized the international silence regarding the Israeli practices against them, and called on the international community to confront the Israeli violations. UFree said in its statement on the 39th […]

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Issawi calls for ‘rage and solidarity’ on Prisoners Day

Maan News Agency | April 17, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi on Wednesday called for “rage and solidarity” to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day. “Greetings to all without exception. I urge all the noble people of our Arab and Muslim nation as well as the free people of the world to turn […]

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#PalHunger | Platini faces new political test over hunger-strike footballer & UEFA’s under-21 finals in Israel | Full text

LIVE BLOG ▶ DEMAND ISRAEL TO RELEASE MAHMOUDSARSAK KEIR RADNEDGE in POZNAN | June 14, 2012 – Michel Platini has been urged to strip Israel of the right to host next year’s UEFA’s under-21 championship because of the security authorities’ ongoing detention without trial of Palestinian footballers. One of them, Palestinian international Mahmoud Sarsak, has […]

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#VIDEO | Demo for #MahmoudSarsak in Scheveningen #Holland

LIVE BLOG ▶ DEMAND ISRAEL TO RELEASE MAHMOUDSARSAK June 13, 2012 Video by sonjazimmermann1 English translation below the original in Dutch 13 juni 2012 Nourdin Ouali, gemeenteraadslid in Rotterdam, doet mee aan een actie voor vrijlating van de Palestijnse voetballer Mahmoud al Sarsak. Deze zit al drie jaar vast in Israelische zgn administratieve detentie, dus […]

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#PalHunger | Amnesty: Release or hospitalize hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak

LIVE BLOG ▶ DEMAND ISRAEL TO RELEASE MAHMOUDSARSAK Maan News Agency | June 14, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian soccer player on hunger strike for three months should be admitted to hospital or released, Amnesty International said Thursday. Mahmoud al-Sarsak was detained in 2009 and is being held under a form of detention that […]

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The health condition of tortured prisoner Rawajba is worsening

URGENT | June 14, 2012 | 20 children started hunger strike in Israeli prison [ PIC 13/06/2012 – 02:46 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Ahrar center for prisoner studies and human rights said the health status of administrative prisoner Dawoud Rawajba, 36, has deteriorated very badly and appealed to human rights groups to intervene for his […]

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#PalHunger | FIFA urgently calls for Mahmoud Sarsak’s release

URGENT | June 14, 2012 | 20 children started hunger strike in Israeli prison [ PIC 14/06/2012 – 12:32 PM ] PARIS, (PIC)– The International Federation of Football Associations, FIFA, condemned Israel illegal detention of the Palestinian footballer Sarsak who has gone on an open hunger strike since three months. It also called for his […]

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FIFA urged to cancel European football tournament in Israel | #MahmoudSarsak

Al Akhbar English | June 14, 2012 Palestine football leaders have urged UEFA to remove Israel as the 2013 European Under-21 Championship host nation for jailing Palestinian national team players without trial. Palestine federation president Jibril Rajoub wrote to UEFA President Michel Platini to say that Israel’s government is in “direct violation of FIFA regulations.” […]

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The occupation authorities end Abu Sisi’s solitary confinement on a condition to silence!

[ PIC 13/06/2012 – 11:41 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Tawfiq Abu Naeem, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Association, revealed that today June 13 the Israeli occupation authorities ended the solitary confinement of the prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi, and transferred him to Hadarim prison. The liberated prisoner Abu Naim added in press statements, on Wednesday June […]

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