November 9: Ahmad Sa'adat calls from his isolation cell for actions in support of prisoners
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QUOTE
"This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this ‘kangaroo court'..."
-Ahmad Sa'adat
LINKS
11/26/2009: Friends of Ahmad Sa'adat participation in Jericho political prisoners' conference
11/24/2009: Danish website for the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat launches!
11/22/2009: Resource Guide from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat
11/14/2009: International Forum-Denmark Calls for Freedom for Sa'adat
11/11/2009: Greek Member of European Parliament raises the case of Ahmad Sa'adat
11/9/2009: Ahmad Sa'adat calls from isolation for actions in support of prisoners (English | Italian | Greek)
10/22/2009: Isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat extended six months! (English | French)
10/17/2009: Take Action to Support Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian prisoners against isolation! (Call in English | French | Polish | Greek | Galician)
10/17/2009: Download flyer for the Free Ahmad Sa'adat Campaign (English | Galician)
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New letter from Ahmad Sa'adat from his isolation cell!Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, is one of nearly 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. These political prisoners, men, women and children, are activists, organizers and political leaders of the Palestinian people.
Sa'adat was sentenced to 30 years in the occupation prisons on December 25, 2008. On March 18, 2009, Sa'adat was moved into isolation at Asqelan prison, facing serious medical consequences. In June 2009, Sa'adat engaged in a nine-day hunger strike against his isolation. On August 10, 2009, Sa'adat was moved from the isolation cells at Asqelan to the isolation unit at Ramon prison in the Naqab desert. On October 22, 2009, Sa'adat was sentenced to an additional six months in solitary confinement by the occupation military court in Bir Saba.
Sa'adat, with five other Palestinian prisoners, was kidnapped by the Israeli military on March 14, 2006 after a siege upon the prison in Jericho, where he was being held under a U.S. and British guard at a Palestinian Authority prison.
This is a campaign of human rights activists and concerned people from around the world, coming together to address the travesty of justice taking place, and calling for justice and freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian political prisoners.
We are asking you now to join us in calling upon international human rights organizations to make clear statements about and prioritize this case. Ahmad Sa'adat is a prisoner of conscience, subject to the illegitimate military courts of an illegal military occupation. Indeed, the "security-related charges" against him, such as they are, embody political persecution and targeting for repression due to political activity, including such charges as membership in a forbidden organization (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, of which he is General Secretary), holding a post in a forbidden organization, and incitement - for a speech delivered after the murder of Abu Ali Mustafa, the previous General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, by the Israeli military, as he worked in his office.
Ahmad Sa'adat is joined by thousands of other Palestinian prisoners, including other Palestinian political leaders, in facing imprisonment by the authorities of an illegal military occupation. These include 36 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in 2006 and 3 government ministers, including Sa'adat and Marwan Barghouti, prominent Palestinian leader. Abdelaziz Dweik, chair of the PLC, was recently released after three years in prison.
Your help and support are needed to secure justice and freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian political prisoners. Please take action today!
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