Alaa Hammad is a Palestinian father of six young children - 3 boys and 3 girls. They have not seen their father for 7 years as he rots in an Israeli dungeon after being severely tortured. As his act of resistance in demanding his freedom from an illegal occupation prison he started a hunger strike. 17th November will be his 200th day on hunger strike. Yet the BBC, which describes its mission as one to "inform" and "educate" and the news as "providing trusted World and UK news..", has refused to cover his story.
The search engine Google has indexed nearly 20 million articles from the BBC website yet it returns no results from the BBC for Alaa Hammad. Alaa Hammad has never once been mentioned by the BBC - those 20 million articles.. empty of any reference to the Palestinian hunger striker who is nearing death after nearly seven months without food.
This is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited. The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out
More than 300 persons came to the opening night of cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh’s Cell 28 exhibition at Ramallah’s Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in the occupied West Bank on 6 November.
“I think it’s very important for Palestinian artists to talk about the Palestinian prisonersbecause it’s a very human issue,” Saba’aneh told The Electronic Intifada.
Originally from the village of Qabatiya near Jenin, 34-year-old Saba’aneh started drawing all the pictures on exhibition while he was in jail, completing them later.
He spent five months in prison after being arrested by Israeli occupation forces this past February. After two months of internment without charge, Israel charged him with drawing cartoons in a book they alleged had some association with Hamas.
The photographs on display deal solely with issues regarding Palestinian political prisoners. The themes include family visits, longing, loneliness, solitary confinement, prisoner transfers, education in prisons and healthcare in prisons.
Read more here
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Political prisoner Ameer Makhoul: international solidarity a “lighthouse” on journey to Palestine's liberation
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Ameer Makhoul (Adri Nieuwhof)
Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was persecuted for his work to uphold the rights of his community, penned a letter of salutation to the World Social Forum Free Palestine from his Israeli prison cell.
Read more at
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/political-prisoner-ameer-makhoul-international-solidarity-lighthouse
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Palestinian prisoner Hassan Al Torabi dies of blood cancer, due to Israeli deliberate medical negligence
UFree Network strongly condemned the Israeli occupation prison authorities of its medical negligence which resulted in the death of a Palestinian prisoner Hassan Al Torabi due to his illness with cancer, bringing the number of Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli jails to 205.
He was suffering from cancer but prior to his death, he said all he received from the prison authorities was paracetamol.
read more here
http://ufree-p.net/index.php/site/index/news/328/3#.UnjwrcAyuEI.blogger
Thursday, October 31, 2013
The True Prison , by Ken Saro-Wiwa
The True Prison
It is not the leaking roof
Nor the singing mosquitoes
In the damp, wretched cell.
It is not the clank of the key
As the warder locks you in.
It is not the measly rations
Unfit for man or beast
Nor yet the emptiness of day
Dipping into the blankness of night
It is not
It is not
It is not
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