A Call To Action – Do not forget Ahmad Sadaat’s hunger strike

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By Yousef Abudayyeh • Jun 19th, 2009 at 20:30 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

ألمناضل ألقائد أبو غسان مستمر في إضرابة عن ألطعام , فهل لنا أن نتضامن معة ومع باقي ألحركة ألاسيرة ألبطلة ؟
ألمناضل ألفذ أحمد سعدات مستمر بإضرابة عن ألطعام دفاعاً عن كرامتنا فرداً فرداً ولكننا نعيش في كوكب آخر ….إلى متى سنبقى غائبين مغيبين يا ترى ؟
هل لنا أن نتضامن معهم بإعلان اضرابنا عن ألطعام يوم ألاثنين ١٥ حزيران ٢٠٠٩ ونبدء حملة إعلامية كبيرة في ألعالم تتبنى قضية أسرى شعبنا ألابطال وذلك بإلاعتصامات وألمظاهرات وألندوات و أي عمل آخر نراة مناسباً حتى يعلم ألقريب قبل ألبعيد عن معاناة هؤلاء ألابطال .ألدفاع عن اسرانا هو واجب وطني أخلاقي إنساني لا يمكن لنا أن لا نقوم بة , حتى لو كان بشكل فردي أذا تعذُّر علينا أن نقوم بة بشكل جماعي

Ahmad Sadaat, The Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine just entered his second week of hunger strike. He has been leading the fight, inside the zionist jails, against racist treatment of our heros by the zionist jailers who are trying to impose the “orange outfit”, in a reference that our hero political prisoners are not jailed for political reasons.

I am suggesting that we start a hunger strike on Monday 15 June 2009 and couple that with letters to the editors and demonstrations and sit ins at the Red Cross and UN offices. If we can not do it as groups, we should do it as individuals. This is the least we can do.
Yousef

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Comrade Sa’adat subjected to further prison repression following hunger strike
A new set of punishments have been issued against imprisoned Comrade Leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, following a nine-day hunger strike against the occupation’s denial of prisoners rights, won through long struggle, and the policy of solitary confinement.

The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights sent an attorney to visit with Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on June 15, 2009.

The administration of Asqelan prison held a hearing following the hunger strike, which Comrade Sa’adat refused to attend. The hearing resulted in a severe set of sanctions directed at Comrade Sa’adat, extending his denial of family visits, denial of visits to the prison cateen, and a 200 shekel fine, as well as a week extension of solitary confinement. These punishments come in addition to an earlier set of draconian sanctions directed at Comrade Sa’adat as a result of his leadership in the prisoners’ movement.

On May 7, 2009, the occupation forces issued a series of punishments against Comrade Sa’adat, including denying him messages from his family for a month, prevention of family visits until September 5, 2009, the extension of his solitary confinement until June 28, 2009 and the removal of all electrical appliances, newspapers and magazines. The attorney noted that Comrade Sa’adat was kidnapped from the Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho in March 2006, where he had been held under PA, British and US guard, and after a mockery of justice, sentenced him to 30 years in prison. Comrade Sa’adat continually rejected the trial as illegitimate and refused to participate.

The Al-Mezan center condemned the policy of isolation and solitary confinement, noting that this practice violates international standards and is classified as a form of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The center called for the international community to work to the utmost to gain immediate protection for the rights of Palestinian prisoners, won through long struggle, and for the release of all Palestinian prisoners from the jails of the occupation.

Comrade Khalida Jarrar, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP spoke on Sunday, June 14, 2009, summing up Comrade Sa’adat’s nine-day hunger strike and detailing the methods of isolation used by the occupier, noting that there are 30 prisoners held in solitary confinement and that these men are held in single cells 23 out of 24 hours in the day. She noted that Comrade Sa’adat has been held in isolation since his transfer by the occupation authorities from Hadarim to Asqelan prison several months ago, and that his family has been barred from visiting him.

Abla Sa’adat, Comrade Sa’adat’s wife, spoke about how she has not been able to visit her husband for three months and that her children have been barred from visiting him for the past three years. She demanded that human rights institutions act upon the issue of solitary confinement and isolation.
http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=comrade-saadat-subjected-further-prison-repression

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Yousef Abudayyeh is a long time activist, founding member of the National Council of Arab Americans, a member of the coordinating committee of the Beirut meeting, member of Al-Awda, the right of Return Coalition and National Coordinator of the Free Palestine Alliance, USA. Married with two children and lives in San Diego ,California USA http://www.wewillreturn.blogspot.com
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