June 1 - Ahmad Sa'adat transferred to Hadarim prison from Nafha...
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"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
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Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, is one of over 11,000 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's trial, which has been repeatedly postponed, will meet next on July 27, 2008. Sa'adat is currently being held in the "collective isolation" sector of Nafha prison. 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 41 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in 2006, including Sa'adat, Aziz Dweik, chair of the PLC, and Marwan Barghouti, prominent Palestinian leader.
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