Rula Abu Duhou, a 46-year-old lecturer at the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, describes the nine years she spent in Israeli prison as the “the most important years” of her life. Then a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Duhou was […]
You wake up very early, put on your best clothes and get ready for a long anticipated visit. Begins, with the early start of the journey, a recollection of events and a recalling of memories. For many, this will be their only opportunity to see loved ones held in Israeli prisons; others are denied those […]
Shereen Al-Issawi has being held in solitary confinement since the beginning of May and her family have been prevented from visiting her, the Palestinian Prisoners Club revealed yesterday. The Club’s lawyer, who visited captive Al-Issawi in her cell in the Neve Tirza prison, quoted her as saying she is being held in a room that […]
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 […]
Watch the full documentary on Palestinian prisoners who go on hunger strikes in Israeli jails to achieve their basic human rights, and sometimes their freedom . Ayman al Sharawna and Hana Shalabi whose stories are featured in the Arabic version of The Prisoners; Diaries reenact their experiences in this powerful documentary. Thanks to Asmaa Seba […]
Sheikh Khader Adnan was abducted by the occupation forces two days ago on Tuesday 8th July 2014. A former Palestinian political prisoner, Sheikh Khader Adnan is known as the father of the hunger strikers – the symbol of Palestinian resistance and steadfastness, In 2011 he was abducted and caged indefinitely without any charged or trial […]
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