Addameer's "End Administrative Detention ! "Campaign

END ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION! FREE SAMER ISSAWI !
Friends, if you support my book, please support this campaign by Addameer to End Administrative Detention and sign the petition to Brig Gen Danny Efroni, the Advocate General of the IDF .
Israel uses AD as a substitute for criminal prosecution when there is insufficient evidence, and Samer Issawi ,is now on hunger strike for the 267th day, to protest against his unlawful imprisonment.

www.stopadcampaign.com

He sings in prison

His beautiful voice now sings out in prison.

Oday al-Khatib was accused of throwing stones and now faces 10 years in prison. The maximum sentence for throwing stones under Israeli military law is 20 years.

The only good thing here is that this article appeared in theLondon Review of Books, which means people not normally interested in Middle Eastern politics will read about this and feel horror and disgust at the Occupation.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/04/11/nicola-perugini/he-sings-in-the-prison/

After 27 years in captivity, freedom arrives for Ibrahim Baroud

Ibrahim Baroud reunited with his mother  today after 27 long years in prison, 7 of which was in solitary confinement.

Shahd Abusalama , a talented artist and eloquent writer had mentioned the courage and persistence of Ibrahim's mother in her blog dated March last year

"Despite her age, she has joined every hunger strike prisoners launched since her son was detained, and has never missed a protest for Palestinian political prisoners. She always says, “I am not only the mother of the detainee Ibrahim Baroud, but of all the prisoners and oppressed. I’ll keep calling for their freedom as long as I am alive”. Last Monday at the weekly protest in the Red Cross, she limped because of a pain in her leg, but was still fasting in solidarity with Khader Adnan and all prisoners. She spoke for the prisoners to the media, appealing to every human right organization to witness the suffering of Palestinian detainees and act."http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/shahd-abusalama/palestinians-owe-ban-ki-moon-no-apologies

In The Prisoners' Diaries, the mother of freed prisoner Marwan Alzard had recounted her pain at being separated from her son for 20 years. "Oh brave lion,I would sacrifice my heart to save you. I would give my soul and every valuable thing to free you. My imagination could not offer me a picture of my beloved patiently enduring behind the walls of humiliation. But my imagination was weaker than God's will, which always allowed me to see him in my dreams as if I was with him the whole night."

A Letter from Hassan Salama

Although The Prisoners' Diaries had started as a compilation of first hand experiences by freed Palestinian prisoners, I had included a letter from Hassan Salama in the book, to remind the readers that there are still almost 4,800 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli detention.
Hassan Salama had written the heart wrenching letter during his 13 years in solitary confinement  where he appeals to the world not to forget him.

In recognition of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh who died of cancer 2 days ago having been refused treatment in an Israeli prison, Hassan Salama wrote another message to the world, which has been translated by Yousef Aljamal of CPDS.

http://yeljamal.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/veteran-palestinian-prisoner-welcome-to-death-if-its-a-means-to-freedom/

First grader arrested by IDF

The poem by Dorothy Law Nolte titled "Children live what they learn" goes "..if children live with hostility, they learn to fight". From the report below, it looks like Israeli occupation forces are creating the next generation of Palestinian resistant fighters.

Gideon Levy from Haaretz reports on the day 27 Palestinian children were arrested on the way to school.

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/twilight-zone/aged-eight-wearing-a-mickey-mouse-sweatshirt-and-placed-in-israeli-custody.premium-1.512461