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UN experts condemn Israel’s ‘sadistic’ punitive measures against French-Palestinian rights defender Salah Hammouri

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 rayhanania No Comments

UN experts condemn Israel’s ‘sadistic’ punitive measures against French-Palestinian rights defender Salah Hammouri UN independent experts have called on Israel to immediately release Salah Hammouri, an arbitrarily detained French-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer, who has just ended a 19 day hunger strike in objection to the systematic policy of administrative detention. “We are concerned…

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Six Palestinians on hunger strike protesting their administrative detention

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Six Palestinians on hunger strike protesting their administrative detention B’Tselem: Release all administrative detainees Six Palestinian prisoners are currently on hunger strike to protest their administrative detention: Kayed Fasfous, 32, a father of a seven-year-old from Dura, has been on hunger strike for 118 days. He is in hospital as the lengthy strike has caused…

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Palestinians injured in protests supporting hunger strikers

May 19, 2017May 23, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinians injured in protests supporting hunger strikers Story from Maan News Agency: Palestinians protest across the occupied territories in the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in support of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israel’s prison gulag system. The day of solidarity was marked by violence by Israeli soldiers firing on civilian protestors Photos…

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Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike get support

September 16, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike get support. Advocates of human rights are showing support for the hundreds of Palestinian dissidents being held in Israeli prisons who have been denied their rights under the International Rule of Law. Supporters are posting videos and photos showing solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners who are being compared to the political…

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Hunger strike escalates for prisoner Bilal Kayed

August 3, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

“Freedom or Death:” Palestinian Political Prisoner Bilal Kayed’s Hunger Strike Escalates. Palestinian political dissident remains in Israeli Gulag in failing health in protest of Israeli brutality By Dezeray Lyn In Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon, historic Palestine, shackles hold fast to the right hand and left foot of Palestinian political prisoner Bilal Kayed. The 34-year-old has been on a…

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Hunger striker al-Qiq held without trial, justice

February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 rayhanania 1 Comment

Palestinian journalist imprisoned without trial or justice by Israel continues hunger strike to expose Israel’s civil rights abuses, violence and oppression. Muhammed al-Qiq symbolizes the enduring struggle against Israel’s brutality By Bettejo Indelicato A Palestinian prisoner on hunger striker becomes more than the individual their tortured body encompasses. The hunger striker, in this case Muhammad al-Qiq (Mohammed…

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Palestinian Journalist’s hunger strike enters 87th day

February 19, 2016September 29, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Palestinian Journalist Muhammad al-Qiq’s Hunger Strike Enters 87th Day inside of Israeli Hospital Martyrdom is staring down 33 year old Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq as he somehow clings to life after, what is nearing, three months of starvation in protest of his illegal imprisonment by Israel. By Dezeray Lyn In HaEmek hospital in Afula, al-Qiq…

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Solidarity Hunger Strikes Continue in Tampa, FL for Khader Adnan

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Solidarity Hunger Strikes Continue in Tampa, FL for Khader Adnan By Dezeray Lyn Several organizers of a BDS group in Tampa continue hunger striking as mass action is planned this week at the Red Cross building in Tampa in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. In a Tampa courtroom today, a Palestine solidarity activist made a statement on…

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