News About Prisoners

40 years in jail, Palestinian prisoner’s family still hopeful

Family of Nael Barghouthi, longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, speaks to Anadolu Agency RAMALLAH, Palestine  Despite 40 years behind bars, the family of Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, is still hopeful to see him freed one day. “He will taste freedom once again,” his wife Iman Nafi told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive […]

Making Sense of Hunger Strikes and Symbolic Politics

Desperate circumstances give rise to desperate behavior. If by states, extreme violent behavior tends to be rationalized as ‘self-defense,’ ‘military necessity,’ or ‘counterterrorism,’ and claims of legal authorization are treated as appropriate. If even nonviolent acts of resistance by individuals associated with dissident movements, then the established order and its supportive media will routinely describe […]

Israeli neglect fuels virus spread among Palestinian prisoners

Human rights groups are sounding the alarm over the spread of coronavirus among Palestinians in Israeli jails. At least five Palestinian prisoners have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 recently, including a child. They were being held at Ofer military prison near Ramallah, where Israeli occupation forces also detain Palestinian children. Infected prisoners were […]

ACTION ALERT: DEMAND MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR HLF PRISONER MUFID ABDULQADER WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

On Tuesday, July 7, Holy Land Foundation political prisoner Mufid Abdulqader, serving an unjust 20-year prison sentence for charitable work, tested positive for COVID-19 at a federal prison in Texas. Abdulqader had previously warned of the rapidly deteriorating situation at his prison just days ago on his birthday on July 1 on which he turned […]