34 years ago today, Irish man Patsy O’Hara died after 61 days on hunger strike. 3 years ago as Khader Adnan was on a 66 day hunger strike, his mother Peggy and brother Tony issued a statement in support of Khader and his family. Those words mean as much today as Khader is on his […]
Shireen Issawi, the sister of legendary hunger striker Samer Issawi, has told Hanan Al Khateeb, attorney of the Council of Prisoner Affairs, that she suffered a brutal beating in Hasharon prison on May 3, 2015. Shireen stated that on that day, prison guards invaded the female prisoners section under the false pretext of one prison […]
In Khan Younis, the photos of the prisoners behind barbed wire pending their release from Israeli jails
RAMALLAH – Today, the Israeli military court at Ofer prison in Betunia, Ramallah, issued a verdict to reinstate the original sentence of Samer Issawi. Issawi, who became world famous due to his legendary record-breaking hunger strike during his previous arrest, was originally sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on the basis of his alleged resistance activities. […]
Khader Adnan, Palestinian political prisoner held under detention without charge or trial, launched an open-ended hunger strike on May 6 in protest of the third extension of his administrative detention, for a four-month period. Adnan, 37, a baker from Arraba near Jenin, is a previous long-term hunger striker whose 2012 66-day hunger strike secured his […]
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