Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: “Declaring a Victory and Ongoing Struggle”

July 27, 2011 denver abc

Written Statement by Short Corridor Collective (a small representative of the Hunger Strike Leaders at Pelican Bay)

To Supporters:

On July 1, 2011, a collective group of PBSP-SHU inmates composed of all races began an indefinite hunger strike as a means of peacefully protesting 20-40 years of human rights violations. The offenses against us rose to the level of both physical and mental torture—for example, the coercing of SHU inmates into becoming known informants for the state and thereby placing those prisoners, and possibly their families outside of prison, at serious risk of danger in response to being known to have informed on and caused harm to other inmates via informing on them. The decision to strike was not made on a whim. It came about in response to years of subjection to progressively more primitive conditions and decades of isolation, sensory deprivation and total lack of normal human contact, with no end in sight. This reality, coupled with our prior ineffective collective filing of thousands of inmate grievances and hundreds of court actions to challenge such blatantly illegal policies and practices (as more fully detailed and supported by case law, in our formal complaint available online here) led to our conclusion that a peaceful protest via hunger strike was our only available avenue to expose what’s really been going on here in CDCR-SHU prisons and to force meaningful change.

We ended the hunger strike the evening of July 20, 2011, on the basis of CDCR’s top level administrators’ interactions with our team of mediators, as well as with us directly, wherein they agreed to accede to a few small requests immediately, as a tangible good faith gesture in support of their assurance that all of our other issues will receive real attention, with meaningful changes being implemented over time. They made it clear: such changes would not happen over night, nor would they be made in response to a hunger strike going on.

Many inmates across the state heard about our protest and rose to the occasion in a solid show of support and solidarity, as did thousands of people around the world! Many inmates put their health and lives on the line; many came close to death and experienced medical emergencies. All acted for the collective cause and recognized the great potential for forcing change on the use of SHU units across the country.

With this support in mind, a core group of us was committed to taking the hunger strike to the death, if necessary, to force the changes sought. Naturally, though, we hoped it would not come to that!

On July 20, 2011, several top CDCR administrators sat across the table from us and made assurances that they are in the process of making meaningful changes right now, and will make affecting change a priority in the future, while providing regular updates and engaging in additional dialogue. And, we know they’re being forced to restructure the entire CDCR system in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Plata ruling, which deals with reduction of inmate population.

Thus, our collective decision was to end the hunger strike, on basis of their good faith gesture with a few small things and to give them the opportunity to make good on their assurances, e.g. an end to human rights abuses and torture. This decision drew from our view that we have been successful in exposing CDCR’s illegal policies and practices to the world!

And, when it’s all said and done, there comes a point where you have to give an entity the opportunity to perform their end of an agreement and the bottom line is this: CDCR could have signed off on a piece of paper, granting all of our demands and telling us, “you’ll all be cut loose to the general population prison in six months.” Then, six months later, tell us, “we’ve reconsidered and it’s not happening.” So, we’ll see soon enough where CDCR is really coming from. More important is the fact that while the hunger strike is over, the resistance/struggle to end our subjection to (SHU) human rights violations and torture is just beginning!

We’ve drawn the line on this and should CDCR fail to carry out meaningful changes in a timely fashion, then we will initiate a class action suit and additional types of peaceful protest. We will not stop until the CDCR ends the illegal policies and practices at SHU!

We’re counting on all of our outside supporters to continue to collectively support us and to carry on with shining light on our resistance in here. This is the right time for change in these prisons and the movement is growing across the land! Without the peoples’ support outside, we cannot be successful! All support, no matter the size, or content, comes together as a powerful force. We’ve already brought more mainstream exposure about these CDCR-SHU’s than ever before and our time for real change to this system is now! As for CDCR’s propaganda—that the hunger strike was initiated and ordered by gang members and the fact that up to 6,600 inmates participated in 13 prisons across the state demonstrates the gangs’ influence, which is why they’re in SHU in the first place—our response is, (1) CDCR has never responded to our formal complaint, wherein we state, many of us have been in SHU 10-40 years, just based on a CDCR gang label, based on claims by confidential inmate informants; we have never been found guilty of committing an illegal gang-related act! Meanwhile, tens of thousands of other inmates whom CDCR has also labeled as gang affiliates are allowed in the general population of prisons! And, (2) the other inmates who participated did so based on their own recognition of, and decision to resist and protest, their similar conditions! All of our public statements about the PBSP-SHU protest clearly stated it was voluntary and those whose age and/or medical issues were an issue, should not participate! If PBSP-SHU inmates had the influence over the gang affiliates in CDCR prisons, as their propaganda claims, there wouldn’t have been tens of thousands of inmates participating in the hunger strike (by CDCR’s own statistics, their system is composed of approximately 70% gang affiliates—that’s 70% of more than 140,000 inmates!)

The protest and resistance is not about gangs. It’s all about a collective effort to end the torture in these SHUs and we hope it sill serve as an example to all inmates: there’s real power in collective peaceful protest actions.

Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, George Franco, Louis Powell.

Ongoing Struggle

Posted on July 27, 2011 by prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity

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The Short Corridor Collective, representatives of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike leaders, released a statement explaining their reasoning behind accepting the CDCR’s offer and ending the hunger strike. Click here to read the full statement.

As this struggle enters a new phase post-initial-negotiation with the CDCR, supporters outside prison are called on to carry this fight and make sure that the CDCR follows through with its offer of good faith. Supporters everywhere are called on to continue to amplify prisoners’ voices, and to strengthen our ties and connections to better consolidate a growing movement against imprisonment, torture, and all violence. Please keep encouraging everyone you know to refer to this website as a source for information regarding the hunger strike, and the ongoing work to win the five core demands presented by the Pelican Bay hunger strikers. Click here for upcoming events and actions.

Written July 22nd, 2011

UW eco-arson suspect pleads not guilty

The man accused of building the firebomb used by Earth Liberation Front activists to torch the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001 pleaded not guilty Wednesday to several federal charges.

By Mike Carter Seattle Times

TACOMA — The man accused of building the firebomb used by Earth Liberation Front radicals to torch the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001 pleaded not guilty Wednesday to several federal charges.

Justin Solondz, 31, was arrested July 6 in Chicago after his expulsion from China, where he had been serving a prison term for selling drugs.

A former student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Solondz is charged with conspiracy, arson, making an unregistered destructive device and using a destructive device during a violent crime, a charge that could result in a life sentence.

After the hearing in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Solondz's attorney said his client was glad to be back in the United States.

Solondz was a purported member of a cell of radical environmentalists known as "The Family" who are believed to have participated in a string of arsons and other sabotage that caused $80 million in damage in Washington, Oregon, California and Colorado.

Prosecutors allege that Solondz built a firebomb in a "clean room" behind a home in Olympia, transported it to Seattle and served as the getaway driver the night of the UW arson.

The firebomb was planted in the office of UW professor Toby Bradshaw at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Bradshaw was targeted because the arsonists believed, mistakenly, he was genetically engineering trees.

Damage from the arson was estimated at more than $6 million.

In June, Briana Waters pleaded guilty to charges of arson, conspiracy to use a destructive device, possessing an unregistered destructive device and the use of an explosive device in a crime of violence in connection with the arson. She agreed to testify against Solondz, whose trial is scheduled for Sept. 19.

Waters, 35, is Solondz's former girlfriend.

Two other women, Lacey Phillabaum and Jennifer Kolar, pleaded guilty to the UW arson and were sentenced to three and five years, respectively.

Also charged in the UW arson was William C. Rodgers, who committed suicide in an Arizona jail in December 2005.

Solondz was indicted in Washington state and California in 2006. The FBI issued a $50,000 reward in late 2008 for information leading to his arrest. At the time, the FBI said he might be in Canada, Europe or Asia.

He surfaced in Dali, a Chinese city popular with Western tourists, using a phony Canadian identification and an altered appearance. He was arrested in a drug investigation in March 2009.

Paul Solondz said his son did not flee the United States to avoid prosecution, according to The Associated Press. He said Solondz went to Italy for a wedding in 2005 and traveled from there, visiting Holocaust sites in Europe before going to Russia and China.

He entered China with a valid visa and renewed it twice, his father said.

Information from Seattle Times archives and The Associated Press is included in this report.

Remember To Run This weekend

RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS:
WHEN:

Sunday, July 31st, 2011, 10 am - 4
pm

WHERE:

MacArthur Park, (south west corner), 2230 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057

On Sunday, July 31st, 2011 at 10 a.m., the Los Angeles Anarchist Black
Cross will host a 5k run / walk / jog / bike at MacArthur Park, in
downtown Los Angeles, CA. This event is designed to raise much-needed
funds for the ABCF Warchest and Revolutionary Autonomous Communities
(RAC)


RAISING FUNDS:

Our goal for this year's run is $3,500. Funds will be divided between the following:
The Warchest Program was created in November of
1994. Through the program, The ABCF sends monthly financial support to
Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (PP/POWs) who have received
insufficient, little, or no financial support during their imprisonment.
Funds from the Warchest are distributed through monthly stipends to the
political prisoners in need. Prisoners use this money to cover the
basic necessities of everyday living. Since its inception, the ABCF has
raised over $60,000 through the Warchest program.

Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC): was
created in the aftermath of the May Day 2007 police riot targeting
migrant workers who dared stand up for our human rights.  Members of the
MacArthur Park area and others joined together to support those with no
papers and those with no means. RAC-LA came forward to aid the
community in self-organizing such that with the help of each other we
might make an inhuman way of living a bit more bearable while at same
time acquiring the means to one day transform this system into an image
of our own humanity.


SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE:

Remember that many of those arrested in the past or present are not far
from us. Many of them were and are community and labor activists, queer
and environmental activists, people who decided to speak out against
various forms of oppression and paid the price of freedom for their
actions. Anyone of these people could have at one time stood beside us
in a demonstration, at a speak-out or even a organizing meeting. At any
moment it could be us who finds ourselves in this situation, so it is
imperative that we ensure that a strong community of support exists for
these people as well as ourselves. The strength of our movement is
determined by how much we support our fallen comrades.

GET INVOLVED:

People can participate in the following ways:
Be a runner:

 We are asking people or groups who are running to
collect as many sponsors for the run as possible. Remember the money
received is going to help imprisoned comrades and local groups who need
help.

Sponsor a runner:

 This can be done through a flat donation to the runner of your choice.
Sponsor Running Down the Walls:

Any amount helps. Contact the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross if you wish
to simply donate money.

Organizations who donate more than $35 will be added to list of sponsor
organizations on the website and all fliers/posters.

Donate to the Warchest:

For the Warchest send funds to the Philadelphia ABC, indicating your desire
for those funds to go to the Warchest. Please make checks and money orders
to Tim Fasnacht.

(Philadelphia ABCF P.O. Box 42129 Philadelphia, PA 19101).
Organize a Running Down the Walls in your location:
We wish to expand the solidarity runs in more cities and prisons.

In past years we had runs in: Albuquerque (NM), Arcata (CA), Ashland, (OR),
Bellefonte(PA), Boston (MA), Denver, (CO), Detroit (MI), Elmore (AL), Inez (KY),
Marion (IL), Mexico City, New York (NY), USP. Navosta (TX), Pelican Bay
(CA), Phoenix (AZ), Sandstone (MN), Tucson (AZ), Toronto, and Ontario.

For more information contact us at: la@abcf.net    

Tim DeChristopher Sentenced — What’s Next for the Environmental Movement?

by Will Potter on July 27, 2011 Green is the New Red

Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in prison
for using non-violent civil disobedience to disrupt a sham oil and gas
auction. He had been found guilty on two felony counts for making fake
bids in the auction, costing corporations hundreds of thousands of
dollars, and faced up to ten years.

He increased the bids on 22,000 acres of land in Utah national parks. A
federal judge later ruled the auction was illegal.

DeChristopher’s case has attracted international attention, and he has
become a spokesperson for the environmental movement. This case is much
bigger than DeChristopher, though (as he has often said himself). We all
need to be thinking: what’s next? How do we move forward?

Even if you do not consider yourself an environmentalist, or don’t agree
with DeChristopher’s tactics, this case should raise serious questions
about the misplaced priorities of our government and our entire culture.
DeChristopher’s two-year sentence is comparable to what members of
underground groups have received for property destruction. The court has
sent the message that public, aboveground activists, who use non-violent
civil disobedience, will be treated on par with underground activists who
use economic sabotage.

More importantly, though, the government has sent the message that the
people who step forward to stop ecological destruction will be met with
harsh punishments, while those who responsible for this destruction, such
as the oil and gas corporations bidding for public lands, will go about
business as usual.

As the judge said during sentencing: “Civil disobedience can’t be the
order of the day,” or it will lead to “chaos.”

But chaos for who? For the people? For the planet? Or for corporations?

This case, and the larger crackdown on the environmental movement, makes
strikingly clear that the government is more concerned about the latter.
As defense attorney Ron Yengich said: “We never impose the rule of law on
people who steal from poor people, destroy the banking systems or destroy
the earth.”

Moving forward, we need to remember one thing above all else: this is
happening because DeChristopher was effective.

DeChristopher’s actions exposed what goes on inside sham corporate
auctions, it cost corporations hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it
galvanized the movement.

At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said that DeChristopher’s
leadership in the environmental movement, his “continuing trail of
statements” for civil disobedience, and his speech outside the courthouse
were the reasons he faced prison time.

The judge went so far as to take the unusual step of having DeChristopher
taken into custody of the U.S. Marshalls until his prison sentence begins.
In many other cases I have covered, including those of convicted
arsonists, the prisoners were allowed to self-surrender. People are
generally only taken directly into custody if they are a violent threat or
a flight risk. Why was this different?

Because DeChristopher is inspirational, and he would clearly use his time
before prison to organize.

“You have authority over my life, but not my principles. Those are mine,”
DeChristopher said to the judge. “I’ll continue to confront the system
that threatens our future.”

Others have vowed to do the same. Thousands will be in Washington, D.C. in
August to protest the Keystone XL pipeline to the Tar Sands. They are
planning mass non-violent civil disobedience.

Nantes, France: Truncheon beatings on the Rollfield

July 28, 2011 Infoshop News

Today at the airport Nantes Atlantique, the opponents to the construction
of the airport of Notre-Dame-des-Landes met up for a peacefully protest at
the terminal. They wanted to raise their voice against the construction of
the second airport in Nantes.

Protesters supported by a brigade of clown activist ( within children)
came peacefully in the Terminal 1 by singing and shouting slogans. When
the protesters moved in Terminal 3, the CRS violently taken on them. One
person was beaten up to the ground and got seriously injured. She got a
baton on her throat leading to a incapabilité to breath and 3 rips broken.
Another person had his skull open by batons. The both were taken to
hospital. Five others were arrested, even tho injured, we don't know if
they will receive medical help. One of them was immediately referred to
the prosecution.

When the state has no arguments anymore to justify a megalomaniac project,
they let speak their brutality !

We demand the release of all arrested !
We demand the abandonment of the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes !

Legal team of the autonomous village nog2011 of Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
For further information contact 06 46 04 98 07

Freedom for Det!

July 26, 2011 Anarchist News

In the early hours of Friday, June 10th, 2011, two comrades riding
bicycles were stopped by undercover police (also on bikes) in the Moabit
district of Berlin, Germany. After being searched and found in possession
of firefighters and black clothing, as well as having ashy residue on
their hands, both comrades were taken to Tempelhof police station. The
accusation at this point in time: the arson of several luxury cars in a
number of districts of Berlin.

Both comrades refused to testify against the interrogations come
harassment's of the LKA (Landeskriminalamt - state investigation) police,
and it appears that at that moment there was insufficient evidence against
them. One comrade was released, whilst the other, Detlef Maag, was
retained, now accused of another attempted arson at 7am on the morning of
May 16th, this time against a BMW in Friedrichshain. The evidence for
Det's involvement in this act lies in a number of photographs taken by a
resident standing at their window. On the day of Det's arrest, police
raided his house and supposedly found clothes matching those in the
photographs.

After being provisionally released due to his "stable social environment",
Det was almost immediately recalled to prison, where he now sits in the
dungeons of Moabit. 23 hours per day in double cell no more than a 9m
square in size. A pathetic breakfast, lunch and dinner with no more than
one hour's walk in the yard. He is allowed between one and two telephone
calls per week, and visits of up to three people at a time, twice a month.

Det has a fifteen year old daughter, and with the conditions of his and
every other prisoner's imprisonment, he can only see her at a maximum of
twice a month, over a long table and perspex screen that makes physical
contact very difficult.

He can, however, receive unlimited postcards, letters and packages in any
language, and since he has been inside, has written over two-hundred
replies. His written and spoken English is fantastic, and he has requested
texts and pamphlets by Jean Weir and Alfredo Bonanno.

Please write to him at:

Detlef Maag
Alt-Moabit 12a
10559 Berlin
Buchnummer: 1593/11
Fire to the Prisons!

Indiana Inmate Murdered, Entire State on Lockdown

July 28, 2011 moorbey

This is a statement of fact and analysis written collaboratively
between folks on the inside and the outside of Indiana prisons. Our
goal here is to contribute to opposing and actively resisting all
forms of domination, be they imposed directly by the state or
manifested through structural inequalities and prejudices.

Recap of Recent Events:

On the morning of 7-16, an alleged white supremacist was stabbed and
killed by two alleged Latin Disciples. The attack took place at
Pendleton Correctional Facility in the Maximum Security area of the
prison. The murder, coming on the heels of inmate murders at Miami
Correctional Facility and Pendleton Correctional Facility earlier in
the year, was the stated pretense for putting all institutions in the
state on lock down and conducting thorough, far reaching searches.

While many of the lesser security units and institutions have come off
lockdown, prisoners at Pendleton, Wabash Valley and the Indiana State
Prison are still facing raids and searches. The searches at first
seemed to be targeting alleged gang members, in search for contraband
materials that could be used in retaliatory attacks, but it has also
been used as an excuse to harass and attack inmates across the board,
especially those at the Wabash Valley SHU. The SHU houses many of the
states political prisoners and the leadership of much of the political
organizing that has taken place over the past 3 decades in Indiana
Prisons.

Recently on the SHU, CERT and other such ‘emergency response teams’
have entered the cells of many different inmates, unannounced and
unprovoked, in full riot gear in order to carry out violent and
destructive searches, in clear violation of their own policies. This
is despite the fact that the SHU has not only been on total lockdown
since 7/17 /11 but had just gone through an intense search of personal
property by these same teams looking for contraband. Many different
people have been transferred and shuffled around, with transfers off
the SHU being given in accordance with predictable race based
prejudice.

A personal account of what has taken place on the SHU:

“Now scores are being settled by reactionary guards who have been
given a green light to target anyone they choose for assault.

Imagine sitting in your cell reading, or watching TV n suddenly your
door rolls open and hear comes a five man team of guards in riot gear
beating, kicking n throwing u to the ground to be handcuffed while
screaming ‘stop resisting!’

This is what’s taking place on a daily basis on the SHU at Wabash Valley
Prison.

These assaults are without warning or provocation. In violation of DOC
policy n operating procedures, in violation of the United Nations
Standard Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners and US constitutional
law…Prisoners are not being given any due process. We are not being
given the opportunity to cuff up or even being asked. The DOC by its
on policy is required to have a camera present video taping in any
kind of cell extraction. Cameras are non-existent! There is no
recording… Only your word against the guards.

Prisoners who are political, progressive, jailhouse lawyers or
convicts who do not snitch are the prime targets.

This is designed in part to boost the morale of overworked and
underpaid guards who have been complaining about working conditions n
pay. This is designed to unify and close ranks amongst terroristic
guards who have been complaining that SHU prisoners have it to easy
[this despite the fact we are locked in our cells 23 hours a day!
Despite the fact that outside of GED no rehabilitative, educational,
counseling programs exist on the unit or that all visits are by video
monitor or you’re only allowed one phone call a week! That people have
been held under these conditions on average 3yrs or more, some as long
as 10!] Hey boost morale lets stomp a prisoner head in!

It is also designed to intimidate and soften up the rest of the
prisoners held on the SHU. The message being this could happen to you!
Resist, open your mouth, file a grievance or lawsuit and this could be
you! Refuse to be a snitch or debrief and this could be you.”

Inside sources have noted that the white supremacist organizations
that have come under attack lately have in the past and today continue
to enjoy institutional support, from job placements that allow the
construction and distribution of weapons to favorable transfers that
facilitate the development of a strong base of members in certain
units or institutions. This treatment is, in effect, allowing them to
build up their institutional infrastructure in order to recruit more
into their ranks and expand their activities.

Everything from drug distribution networks to fake IDs are at their
disposal, following from their elevated status and treatment by the
administration. The Department of Corrections is facing escalated
racial tensions that they have purposefully helped to create, and are
using such manifestations of this tension as pretense for increased
security measures and violence against those who dare speak out.

An analysis of the racial politics of this recent crack down from
inmate Frank Talk:

“Prisoners that display a certain profile in terms right wing politics
or racist politics or whatever have always enjoyed a certain
skin-privilege. This privilege, coming from the Department of
Corrections, is geared towards disrupting progressive movements for
prison struggle, disrupting solidarity amongst prisoners within the
state of Indiana to fight a collective struggle against their
conditions. That is, it is a privilege based in supporting activates
of a criminal nature that do not directly challenge the status quo of
prison control, that don’t attack the power of the administration.

If you go back to when they first started opening up Super-Max units
and SHU units in the state of Indiana, starting in 1991, and look who
was on these units, they were mostly occupied by political prisoners,
jailhouse lawyers, young guys who were just rebels, and guys that was
challenging the overt racism that was being perpetrated by the system,
responding to the attacks on black people in general. Then you got
guys who were influential amongst other prisoners. This included many
white supremacists or white pride folks, who held these but were
anti-administration as well. They were being punished for
collaborating or cooperating with the black prisoners or New Afrikan
prisoners They were standing on what we call the ‘convict code’ or
standing on political views of we do not support the guards, we do not
support the system, we do not support the administration.

Back in the ’80s and early ’90s you had a breed that were white pride
and whatever, but they were also anti-administration. You could
approach these dudes and create some lines of solidarity or unity
around conditions or the issues that were affecting prisoners as a
whole. But you didn’t see the leadership of the white supremacist
organizations in these lockup units, and you still don’t today. These
guys don’t challenge the administration’s control; they play the game
as a reactionary police force, an auxiliary police force, and are
encouraged and rewarded as such.

Today, most of the white supremacist guys are reactionaries. You know,
these guys they hate us, they hate black people more so than they hate
the police, more so than they hate the administration, more so than
they hate their own oppression; in actuality the majority of these
guys have a police mentality. Their conduct is more of an agent
provocateur nature, and this is why the administration and the
Department of Corrections as a whole turn a blind eye or actively aid
and assist these organizations in building up their infrastructure and
bases of operation, because they have a police mentality, because of
the fact that their daily activities are geared towards expanding
their criminal mentality, it’s not geared towards challenging the
administration. It’s not geared towards creating unity or solidarity
amongst prisoners, so in actuality these organizations are a police
force: they carry out hits for the state, they disrupt activities
geared towards progressive activities or forms of solidarity.

On the SHU at Wabash, where the racism is blatant, the guards with
white supremacist views are in your face. Some of these guards belong
to white supremacist organizations, others exhibit a ‘benign racism’,
where hating people of color is ‘just how they are’ culturally
speaking. Within the administrative dealings, in terms of who gets
reviews and who is released from the SHU, it’s blatantly
discriminatory. If you look into the facts of who has remained in
these units for 5, 10 years, its obvious. If you look into who has
been prosecuted for murder by the Department of Corrections, again, is
blatantly disproportionate in terms of race. These are signs from the
State, signals of what is allowed and what isn’t and who is able to
get away with certain things. People like myself and other political
prisoners who are geared towards a progressive agenda, a revolutionary
agenda, we are punished and isolated and there’s an agenda to destroy
us mentally and physically. And that’s the order of the day all across
the state.

We as radical minded people try to unify and reach across racial lines
to join in efforts to better our conditions, to better expose and
educate other prisoners to the social reality that we’re dealing with
behind these walls and in this country. We’re opposed to all forms of
oppression and strive to work together to combat them as they affect
us all. Today that’s a hard draw. Today we’re dealing with a younger
population; we’re dealing with more reactionary violence. There are so
many internal contradictions amongst ourselves in terms of the youth,
in terms of the drug use, in terms of the reactionary gang violence on
the streets, and that spills over to the prison system.

And it’s hard to want to reach out to some of these white supremacist
dudes; it’s hard not to just hate these mutherfuckas, man. It’s hard
to reach out to these dudes who got swastikas on their chest and are
espousing all kinds of reactionary views. And personally, I’m of the
mindset that there are going to have to be some hard examples set,
some lines drawn in the sand if there are going to be any strategies
of reaching across certain lines.

And you know, a lot of these cadres, they’re not as hard-core as they
front, compared to what’s going on in California for example. A lot of
these guys that claim to be racist and whatnot, they cowards; I don’t
say that from biases, I’m just being real, if they were locked up in
another state, there own people would kill’em. A lot of the youth, the
majority of this white youth, they come in here into hip-hop culture,
they’re listening to rap, they’re listening to Jay Z, and yet they
supposed to be hard core racists. You sneaking in to watch B.E.T., but
you’re claiming to be a racist. In other places, this wouldn’t stand,
their own people would kill’em.

They just bond together out of fear and ignorance. And it’s the same
with the leadership. The leadership claim to be convicts who
facilitate breaking bread and engaging in various business ventures
with all kinds of prisoners, they subscribe to a convict code of
non-cooperation with the administration, yet they do not have any
discipline within they ranks, they don’t hold they rank and file
accountable for breaking this code. It’s like you got a puppy, you got
a puppy and he’s shitting and pissing all over the place. You not
disciplining this puppy, you’ve got to take a newspaper to his behind
and train this puppy.

That’s what they’re facing; they got guys that come on these units,
they’re dealing with a small amount of time and causing conflicts with
other prisoners. These young guys are throwing feces and urine and
spoiled milk on other prisoners, a lot of times for the guards, for
the police. These white supremacist guards might have a conflict with
a certain inmate, so they will talk to these young white guys, bond
with them and get them to throw shit in an inmates cell. So for them,
it’s not about having an identity as prisoners, a bond as prisoners; I
mean, you can subscribe to whatever views, but for these young white
supremacists, it’s not about us and them, it’s us, you and them. You
hate other prisoners more than you hate the state, you hate prisoners
more than you hate the guards, you hate prisoners more than you hate
the mutherfucka who got they foot on your neck.

And so, in my mind, you are one of them! And the State and the
Department of Corrections encourages this type of behavior, encourages
this type of conduct by allowing these guys to organize and by
concentrating them in certain areas, giving them jobs to create and
manufacture weapons and to distribute their materials. In other words,
they’re encouraged to build a base of operations. If you fraternize
using your skin privilege, you’re allowed to engage in certain
conduct; whether it’s drugs or violence or what have you. All with the
knowledge that you’re not going to be held on these isolation units
for 5 or 10 years like a lot of the New Afrikan or political
prisoners.

A lot of the guards too, especially down here at Pendleton and at the
Farm, subscribe to or are members of themselves some of these white
supremacists organizations. Which makes them more open to
collaborating or communicating with some of these other elements
within the prison. And we do not know, yet, to what extent these guys
are working with outside forces. Cause, you know, just as the left
wing or whatever is working and organizing within the prisons, so is
the right wing. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’re seeing
such an influx or momentum amongst these elements these days.

And so now, after allowing and promoting this kind of conduct, the
administration wants to lock down the whole state just cause two or
three Aryan guys have been killed. We’ve seen repeatedly acts of
violence, like there’s a war going on between black gangs, street
organizations, and they have not once, in my 27 years of doing time,
responded in the ways that they are now. Trying to lock down the whole
state and engage in the activities they engaged in, never. Again, what
signal is being set here.

Call for unity

The DOC in Indiana is constantly expanding; expanding its bed count,
expanding its budget, expanding (and tightening) its grip on the lives
of the people it holds captive. In late 2010, it signed a contract
with the GEO Group Inc. to build at its private facility at New Castle
a new for-profit, 512-bed high security prison wing. The DOC has also
begun to construct ‘prisons within a prison’, by building more
barriers within each institution: more gates, more walls, more fences
to physically separate and alienate prisoners from each other. Filling
up the SHU, the MCC and making life at high security institutions more
controlled and repressed are the operating norm of the DOC. These
trends must be countered!

This is a call for solidarity in action amongst prisoners, between
prisoners and those on the outside that struggle against the prison
system. In Indiana, in contrast to the solidarity we’re seeing from
guys out there in California responding to what’s going on at the
Pelican Bay SHU, and the solidarity we saw amongst folks down there in
Georgia, we’ve got a long way to go. But it can start now, right now.
To put ideological discrepancies aside, to reach across racial and
cultural differences, to form a common bond of struggle against the
prison authorities that oppress us all: this has been done before and
it is possible still today.

The misguided and reactionary activities of the majority of prisoners
continue in prisons due partly to the fact that the guards and
administrators promote these activities and ways of life. They would
much rather have drug dealing, would much rather have gang violence
than to have to deal with a cohesive and diverse group of prisoners
attacking the root cause of their present situation.

This is a call out: to think about your daily activities, to analyze
the battles you choose in prison and ask “is this working towards my
and my fellow prisoners’ freedom and dignity as human beings” or “is
this helping the guards and administrators to keep us down, to keep us
buried alive”? This is a call to come together as prisoners, as a
class of people who have tremendous powers even under the most adverse
of conditions when we choose to come together, choose to fight
together. To find one another, to find folks on the outside, to
develop bonds of comradeship and connections of struggle. To fight
back.

IN STRUGGLE, TILL THE LAST PRISON CRUMBLES

A Nation Behind Bars: Palestinian Political Prisoners In Israeli Detention

By Reham Alhelsi countercurrents.org

17 April, 2010

While the whole world demands the release of the Zionist soldier Shalit, who was captured by Palestinians while he was on a mission to kill and destroy, the so-called "free world" continues to ignore that the Zionist entity holds a whole nation hostage. The Palestinian people in occupied Palestine have been held hostage by a brutal military occupation, confined to ghettos build on their own lands. Some 2.5 Million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are captives in their own homes, towns and villages, with military checkpoints locking them up, controlling and limiting their movement. 1.5 Million Palestinians are held hostages in the open-air prison Gaza, not allowed to leave even for urgently needed medical treatment. In addition to that, there are over 8500 Palestinians locked up behind bars in Israeli dungeons. These 8500 Palestinians unite occupied Palestine from the River to the Sea; they unite Jerusalem with Yafa, Jenin with Ara, Hebron with Nazareth, Gaza with Akka. These 8500 Palestinians unite families, unite the pain, unite the hope and unite the struggle for freedom. Almost every Palestinian family has had at least one family member detained by Israel. Almost every Palestinian family has been abused by Israeli soldiers while visiting their loved ones. Almost every Palestinian family has known the pain of waiting, the fear of what might happen behind bars, the hope for a near release and a safe return home. Every Palestinian family knows the meaning of detention, has felt it directly through its members. Every Palestinian family knows the meaning of freedom, for we pay the highest price for the sake of this freedom, and we love our freedom, we cherish our freedom and we yearn for our freedom and would always fight for it.

Since 1967, Israel detained some 750,000 Palestinians, including 12,000 women and tens of thousands of children. During the First Intifada 116,000 Palestinians were detained. Since the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, 70,000 Palestinians were detained, including 900 women and 8000 children. On average, 9000 Palestinians are detained yearly, including 700 children. Alone during the first 3 months of 2010 Israel detained more than 1400 Palestinians, including 90 from Gaza (18 were fishermen and 1 child), 400 from Jerusalem and 7 female detainees. Latest statistics show that there are over 8500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli detention; including 35 women, 337 children, 257 administrative detainees, 15 MP and 1 minister. The Israeli Prison Authority (IPA) refuses to recognize the legitimate rights of Palestinian political prisoners and violates these rights on a daily basis. In addition to torture, physical and verbal abuse, repeated attacks and humiliation, Palestinian political prisoners in general suffer from medical negligence and are denied proper nourishment. Cells are daily raided and searched, often at night, and the private property of prisoners is destroyed or confiscated. Family visits are restricted or cancelled and Gaza, Arab and many West Bank prisoners are denied their visitation rights completely. In the last couple of months, families of prisoners on their way to see their children were abused and humiliated at Israeli checkpoints and parents were asked to undergo naked body searches. This forced the families to return without visiting their children. Political prisoners are further punished by the IPA through being forced to buy their own food and water for extremely high prices from the prison canteen and to pay for the water and electricity they consume through high fines imposed on prisoners for trivial reason such as leaving the bathroom one minute later than decided by the jailor. These sums are withdrawn from the prisoners’ accounts without their knowledge. Families of prisoners are further collectively punished by Israel: some families have their homes demolished, others have their property destroyed and often parents, siblings and children of prisoners are taken as hostages to pressure prisoners into confessing to things they didn’t do. Avigdor Lieberman, current Israeli foreign minister, stated on 07.07.2003 in front of the Israeli Knesset in a discussion on Palestinian political prisoners that "It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in the world."[1], adding that as transport minister, he would be willing to provide the buses to take the prisoners there. Since 1967; 198 Palestinian prisoners have been killed by the IOF while in detention; 70 as a result of torture, 71 killed in cold blood after being arrested, 50 as a result of medical negligence and 7 being shot dead inside prisons by the Israeli prison authorities. The latest victim of Israeli detention being Ra’id Mahmoud Ahmad Abu Hammad, 30 years old from Izariyyeh, Jerusalem who was killed on 16.04.2010 due to medical negligence.

On 07.04.2010, Palestinian political prisoners in 10 Israeli jails and 3 military detention facilities started a 24-hour comprehensive hunger strike in protest of the inhumane treatment they get on the hands of the IPA and its use of family visits to blackmail prisoners. This action is to be repeated on the 17th and 27th of April. As reason for their strike the prisoners gave, among others, the humiliating treatment and the abuse their families endure during visits and the cancellation of family visits for Gaza detainees since 4 years and for many West Bank detainees. Palestinians have often protested the inhumane conditions in Israeli prisons through general hunger strikes. Previous hunger strikes include the Ramleh strike of 18.02.1969 which lasted 11 days, the Neve Tirza strike of Palestinian female prisoners on 28.04.1070 which lasted 9 days, Asqalan strike on 13.09.1973 which lasted 24 days, and the open-strike in Asqalan on 11.12.1976 which lasted 45 days and was renewed on 24.02.1977 for 20 days, the Nafha strike on 14.07.1980 for 32 days, the Jneid strike in September 1984 for 13 days, the Jneid strike on 25.03.1967 which was extended to all other prisons and lasted 20 days, the Nafha strike on 23.06.1991 for 17 days, the comprehensive strike in all prisons on 27.09.1992 which lasted 15 days, the comprehensive strike on 15.08.2004 which lasted 19 days. Tzahi Hanegbi, former Israeli ministry for internal security, said in 2004 after Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a hunger strike against the inhumane prison conditions: "They can strike for a day, a month, until death. We will ward off this strike and it will be as if it never happened. He has ordered large, open grills to be set up to barbecue meat and for bread to be baked just outside the prison doors, to torture prisoners with the smells. Prison guards are encouraged to eat all this in front of the fasting prisoners."[2] He later said: "for all I care, they can starve to death!"[3] The IPA often tries to break up these strikes by force which had lead to the death of some prisoners. According to various reports, hunger strike martyrs include:
1 Abdel Qader Jabir Ahmad Abu Al-Fahim, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 11.05.1970 during the Asqalan hunger strike.
2 Rasim Mohammad Halaweh, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 20.07.1980 during the Nafha hunger strike.
3 Ali Shehadeh Mohammad Al-Ja’fari, from Dheisheh RC, Gaza, killed on 24.07.1980 during the Nafha hunger strike.
4 Anis Mahmoud Douleh, from Qalqilia, killed on 31.08.1980 in Asqalan
5 Ishaq Mousa Al-Maraghah, from Silwan, Jerusalem, killed on 16.11.1983 in Beir Al-Sabi’
6 Hussein As’ad Ubeidat, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.10.1992 during the Asqalan hunger strike.

One form of punishing Palestinian political prisoners who protest Israeli inhumane treatment is isolation. Solitary confinement is used as a punishment for the slightest thing, to humiliate prisoners and to isolate them from the outside world. According to the "Detainees Centre for Prisoners Studies" there are currently 19 Palestinians prisoners in solitary confinement, including female prisoner Wafa’ Al-Bis from Gaza. Usually isolation orders are extended without reason and prisoners who are placed in isolation remain so for many years and have no access to other prisoners, no contact with the outside world or to news from other prisons. Prisoner Mu’taz Hijazy is spending his 8th year in isolation and Jamal Abul-Haija, Ahmad Al-Mughraby and Hasan Salameh are currently spending their 5th years in solitary confinement. In isolation, many Palestinian prisoners are subjected to all forms of physical, psychological and emotional suffering. Isolation cells have an area of only 1.8m x 2.7m, including the WC. The cells are damp, badly ventilated with only one small window (causing respiratory diseases) and there is almost no room for movement. Isolated prisoners are deprived of family visitation. Family members, who often make the long and hard trip to the Israeli prisons, are often turned back without being allowed to see their loved ones. Also, those who have family members locked up as well inside Israeli jails are not allowed to see them. For example, Jamal Abul-Haija "is not allowed to see his wife Asma’a Abul- Haija, a former prisoner whose life is withering with cancer. Also, he is not permitted to see his small son and two daughters or to meet any of his three sons who are imprisoned in the occupation jails."[4] Other punishments include sending the prisoners to the "snooker", which a very small room (180cm x 150cm). The only facilities in the room are two containers for drinking and washing after urinating. Prisoners locked up in the "snooker" are allowed to go to the toilet only once a day. A number of isolated prisoners are in need of urgent medical treatment but do not receive it. A report of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club mentions:[5]
Hassan Salameh: suffers from an injury in the stomach inflicted upon him on his arrest.
Mohammed Jaber Abdoh: suffers from urinary tract problems.
Mu’taz Hijazy: suffers from the brutal assault on him, because of which he was transferred to the intensive care unit. He has been in solitary confinement for the past 8 years.
Yehya As-Sinwar: in need of medical treatment.

Palestinian political prisoners currently in isolation:
1 Ahmad Sa’dat
2 Yehya As-Sinwar
3 Thabet Merdawi
4 Hasan Salameh
5 Ahmad Al-Mughraby
6 Abdallah Al-Barghouthi
7 Mohammad Jamal An-Natsheh
8 Ibrahim Hamed
9 Mu’taz Hijazi
10 Jamal Abul-Haija
11 Mahmoud Issa
12 Saleh Dar-Musa
13 Hisham Ash-Sharabaty
14 Muhawish Ne’mat
15 Atweh Al-Amour
16 Iyad Abu Hasnah
17 Muhannad Shreim
18 Ahed Ghalmeh
19 Wafa’ Al-bis

According to "the Center for Prison Studies" there are 2000 Palestinian and Arab prisoners with medical problems, 550 of them are in need of surgery. Many prisoners suffer from cancer, heart diseases, high blood pressure, respiratory and kidney diseases, diabetes, severe inflammation, bone and skin diseases, paralysis, vision loss, dental problems and other malignant or chronic diseases. Some suffer from past injuries inflicted upon them by the IOF during their arrest, or by the Israeli prison authority and the Israeli intelligence (Shabak) during interrogation and after it. Many await an inevitable death because of medical negligence, lack of appropriate medical treatment, medications and specialists to treat their cases. Reasons for the deteriorating health conditions among Palestinian prisoners include: torture, overcrowded cells, lack of hygiene in cells, high degree of moisture, dirty mattresses, unhealthy and inedible food. Today, there are 16 Palestinian prisoners who suffer from cancer, which, according to several reports, is on the rise among Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails and among those who have been released. At least 160 Palestinian prisoners suffer from heart, kidney and blood pressure problems, 80 suffer from diabetes, 18 are paralyzed, 2 blind, tens have become handicapped in one body part after being shot at by the IOF just before their arrest and at least 12 suffer from Hemiplegia. In addition to physical suffering, more than 40 Palestinian prisoners suffer from mental and psychological ailments due to the interrogation methods used by the Israeli Shabak and the IPA which include torture. Urgently needed medical treatment is denied and often protests are needed to force a treatment or action. There are no specialists and no doctors for emergencies at night. No special diet is provided for patients who suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure and often food is out-dated and poisonous. Patients who need continuous medication for their chronic disease are often deprived of the medication as punishment.

Palestinian patients are treated either in the so-called prison clinics or are sent to the Ramleh prison "hospital". Both the "hospital" and the clinics lack basic medical equipment and supplies and are run by military personnel with little to no medical training. They are not allowed to see a specialist or be taken to a special clinic or get treatment in Israeli hospitals. Dany Naveh, former Israeli health minister, gave orders preventing Palestinian prisoners from receiving treatment in health facilities: "let them be treated where they lie … we don’t want these murderers in hospitals."[6] At least 41 prisoners are constantly hospitalized at the Ramleh prison hospital and at least 28 prisoners are dying in Israeli prisons. Palestinian prisoners who need urgent treatment get interrogated in the so-called prison clinics and are blackmailed into giving information or admitting to things they didn’t commit. According to one report, upon arrest, Palestinian political detainees are first taken to the prison clinic for a medical test to determine their weak points so these might be used by Shabak during interrogations. Patients are transferred in vans to the Ramlah prison "hospital" instead of in ambulances and they are hand and leg cuffed. They are also hand and leg cuffed during the operations which are often conducted without anesthetic. All ailment and diseases, no matter how malignant, are "treated" with pain killers, expired or useless medicines and those who do get operated end up in a worse situation than before the operation. There is also a lack of medical equipment for chronic cases or artificial limbs and a lack of isolation rooms for patients with infectious diseases.

Those who urgently need medical help have often to wait long before receiving the appropriate treatment, i.e. if they are lucky enough to get any treatment at all, and are often left to die a slow and painful death or are treated with mere painkiller and other unknown medicines, no matter how severe the case is, while those who suffer from minor ailments end up with severe problems after they get "treated" at the so-called prison clinics. Examples exist of prisoners who needed urgent surgery but didn’t receive it, and of others who had to wait years before they were finally operated, with the condition of the patients not getting better after the operation, and others who lost their eye-sight, movement in their limbs and caught serious diseases after being "treated". There are cases of prisoners suffering from diabetes where the deliberate delay in providing the needed medical help had led to the amputation of their limbs. Several registered cases of mass food poisoning inside the prisons strengthen what many prisoners and prisoner organizations say about Palestinian prisoners being used against their will and knowledge as test persons in medical experiments conducted by the Israeli prison authorities. One very disturbing fact is the rise in the number of cancer patients. Many reports mentions prisoners who were healthy before being detained and later developing cancer; some while in detention and other immediately after their release. A number of prisoners with cancer were only released when their condition became hopeless and the Zionist entity wanted to avoid having the prisoner dying in its jails. Some of these cases include:
Hayel Hussein Abu Zeid: 37 yrs old from the Golan developed Leukemia while in jail and was only released when his condition proved critical and hopeless. Hayel died in hospital on 07.07.05.
Murad Ahmad Abu Aakut: 29 yrs old from Hebron, developed cancer and was release when it reached a critical stage on the condition that he comes back to prison after treatment. Murad died in hospital Jordan on 13.01.07.
Sitan Nimer Al-Wali: 42 yrs old from the Golan, was released in July 2008 as he developed cancer, still being treated.
Faiz Abdel Hadi Zeidat: 48 yrs old from Bani N’em in Hebron, developed cancer in jail and was released on 02.06.2009 to get treatment.
Hamzah Yousif Tarayra: 22 yrs old from Bani N’em in Hebron, developed cancer in jail and was released in August 2009 to get treatment.

A very recent case reported late March 2010 is that of a Palestinian prisoner who first had a mild eye infection but the IPA refused to provide needed medical treatment causing the prisoner to become blind in both eyes. Another case is of Nahid Al-Aqra’ who lost his leg due to injury before his arrest in 2007 and now faces losing his second leg (left) due to untreated infections. Raid Darabieh, 36 years old, from Jabalya RC, was diagnosed with kidney stones and was operated by the Israeli prison authority 4 times in the back and spine after the discovery of a tumor in the spinal cord. All operations failed, leaving Darabieh with open back-wounds and the loss of feeling in his feet, making him a cripple. Anas Shihadeh had an Appendectomy without any anesthetic being used. During the operation his heart stopped beating 3 times. Nur Alasa, 23, suffered from kidney failure and cirrhosis of the liver after being given pills by the Israeli prison authority as treatment for his cold. Ahmad Mustafa An-Najjar from Silwad in Ramallah and Imad Addin Zu’rub from Gaza had several operations that failed. Mohammad Abu Wahdan was tied to the bed in the "hospital" by his hands and legs and was left to die a slow and painful death. Jum’a Muhammad Musa, 66 years old and a father of 8, died on 24.12.2008 in Israeli jails after spending 10 years in the so-called Ramlah prison "hospital". Musa was given all sorts of medicines causing him only more pain and suffering, and an injection given to him caused paralysis in his left arm and leg. Since 1967 50 Palestinian prisoners have been killed while in detention as a result of medical negligence. Moreover, hundreds of detainees suffering from chronic diseases died after being released from jails such as Walid Al-Ghoul, Abed Wahab Al-Masri, Talal At-Tahhan, Saleh Dardonah, Ahmad Khadra, Mahmoud Abu Mathkour.

Medical negligence is one systematic policy of the IPA. Another is torture and other forms of physical abuse. 70 Palestinians prisoners have been tortured to death inside Israeli dungeons and interrogation cells. Torture is used systematically against Palestinians in Israeli jails. Israeli laws legalize torture and allow Israeli intelligence services to use "moderate degree of physical pressure", whatever that is, against Palestinians and Arab prisoners and protect these interrogators from prosecution. For the use of severe physical pressure, interrogates of Shabak (general security services) have to get the "permission" of their superiors. Torture is not only limited to male adult Palestinian prisoners, females and children are also tortured to extract confessions. The Israeli interrogators use over 80 methods of physical and psychological torture, including severe beating, shackling, depriving the detainees of sleep, burning detainees with cigarettes, removing their nails, shabih, freezing or boiling baths, standing for long hours, sexual harassment. "All of the detainees who are detained exposed to inhuman treatment, fettering hands and legs and covering eyes. 99% of them are beating, 93% are deprived from sleeping, 92% are forced to stand for a long time, 88% are exposed to "shabh" policy and 68% are exposed to stay what-so called fridge for hours and days" … "Concerning Israeli usage of the methods of torture for trade, Amnesty International report entitled the trades of pain stated;" Israel is the most productive state in producing different methods of torture in order to be source for trade such as shackling, chemical substances, tear gas, electro-shock and poisonous drugs."[7]

Among the over 8500 Palestinian prisoners locked up inside Israeli jails, there are 313 "Veteran Prisoners". The "Veteran Prisoners" is an expression used by prisoner movements and organizations to refer to Palestinian prisoners who have been locked up in Israelis jails since before the signing of the so-called peace agreement between Israel and the PLO in May 1994. Of these 126 are from the West Bank, 125 from Gaza, 41 from Jerusalem, 20 from Palestinians areas occupied in 1948 and one prisoner from the Golan. There are 115 Palestinian prisoners who have spent more than 20 years inside Israeli jails. These prisoners are called the "Deans of Prisoners" and among them there are 14 "Generals of Patience", a term given to Palestinian prisoners who have been locked up behind Israeli bars since more than 25 years. These prisoners are:
1 Na’il Saleh Al Bargouhti, 52 years old, Ramallah, in prison since 04.04.1978 (32 years) and is thus the longest-standing political prisoner in the world.
2 Fakhri (Asfour) Abdallah Al Bargouthi, 55 years old, Ramallah, in prison since 23.06.1978 (31 years, 9 months)
3 Akram Abdel Aziz Mansour, 47 years old, Qalqilya, in prison since 02.08.1979 (30 years, 8 months)
4 Fouad Qasem Arafat Al-Razem, 51 years old, Jerusalem, in prison since 30.01.1981 (29 years, 2 months)
5 Ibrahim Fadel Jaber, 55 years old, Hebron, in prison since 08.01.1982 (28 years, 3 months)
6 Hasan Nimir Ali Salma, 51 years old, Ramallah, in prison since 08.08.1982 (27 years, 8 months)
7 Othman Ali Misleh, 57 years old, Nablus, in prison since 15.10.1982 (27 years, 6 months)
8 Sami Khaled Salameh Younis, 77 years old, from 'Ara, in prison since 05.01.1983 (27 years, 3 months)
9 Karim Yousif Fadil Younis, 51 years old, from 'Ara, in prison since 06.01.1983 (27 years, 3 months)
10 Maher Abdel Latif Younis, 52 years old, from 'Ara, in prison since 20.01.1983 (27 years, 2 months)
11 Salim Ali Ibrahim Al-Kayyal, 56 years old, from Gaza, in prison since 30.05.1983 (26 years, 10 months)
12 Hafith Qundus, 46 years old, from Yafa, in prison since 15.05.1984 (25 years, 11 months)
13 Issa Abed Rabbo, 46 years old, from Dheisheh RC, in prison since 20.10.1984 (25 years, 5 months)
14 Ahmad Farid Shehadeh, from Ramallah, in prison since 16.02.1985 (25 years, 2 months)

Every now and then we are read in newspapers, on websites or watch on TV reports on Gilad Shalit, the Israeli occupation soldier who entered occupied Gaza to kill innocent Palestinians civilians and who has been made a "victim" in American and European media. Some European countries have even granted this occupation soldier honorary citizenship and his parents were flown from country to another to give interviews on the "suffering" of their son and demand his release. One particular report showed a photo of Gilad’s supporters standing near tens of life-size cardboards of the soldier. Palestinians demanding the release of their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children would not need to make hundreds of copies of one prisoner because we have thousands behind bars. The hypocrisy is that while the world demands the release of this one single Israeli occupation soldier, it is silent about the thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians, including women and children who are kidnapped from their homes in the middle of the night, from their schools, from their work place and locked up in Israeli dungeons. Palestinian political prisoners lost their freedom in the fight for the freedom of Palestine and for our freedom. Their "road of suffering" begins with the minute of their arrest. They are often brutally beaten by the IOF upon arrest, to be then handed over to the Israeli intelligence "Shabak", who don’t hesitate to use all forms of physical and psychological torture to extract confession. Those who survive the Shabak interrogation are then handed over to the Israeli prison authority, which runs some Nazi-like prison facilities, death cells waiting to engulf Palestinians. Here, Palestinian prisoners are subjected to an inhumane treatment much similar to methods used by the Nazis in Concentration camps, such as conducting medical experiments on powerless prisoners, or neglecting their injuries and ailments leaving them to die an agonizing and slow death, or defining Palestinian prisoners according to their given numbers and not as human beings with names. Despite all, these Palestinian prisoners fight as one against the injustices inflicted upon them, against the atrocities of their executioners. Their fight is a daily fight; for they have to fight for the food they eat and the water the drink and the air they breathe. They fight for their right to see their families, to get medical treatment, to get decent food fit for human consumption, to sleep at night, to walk and see the sun during the day, to read books and newspapers, to watch television and hear a radio and get legal support. It is a daily fight to survive a prison institution that is run by a terror state that wouldn’t hesitate in shooting at unarmed prisoners who go on hunger strikes in protest of the treatment they receive; A prison institution that wouldn’t hesitate in sending a terminally ill Palestinian prisoner back to his cell with a pill of Acamol; a useless pain killer, and ignore his screams of pain all night long; A prison institution that wouldn’t hesitate to lock up blind and handicapped Palestinian prisoners in isolation cells which are not fit to be used as a pig’s pens; A prison institution that feeds and thrives on the lives of Palestinian children, women, men and elderly.

Almost every single day there are news and reports of nightly raids, of mass arrests, of more suffering inside Israeli jails, of more horrors and new crimes being committed against Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli prison authority. No matter how many times we raise the issue of Palestinian prisoners, we will not do them justice. Those who are locked up behind bars are denied the sight of the green meadows of Palestine and the smell of the Taboon bread. They are denied the sight of their families, the hug of their mothers, the talk with their fathers. They are denied the chance to say goodbye to those family members who die waiting and hoping. They are denied the sight of their children, seeing them grow up, sharing their joy, comforting them. They are denied all this because of their love of Palestine and their fight for freedom, which is a legitimate right. Every nation has the right to fight for its freedom, for its legitimate rights and for the future of its children. These freedom fighters locked up behind Israeli bars also depend on us to fight for them, to carry their fight to the outside world, to remind the world of their suffering and their sacrifices. It is our word they depend upon, our word to inform those at home and those far away, to mobilize people on their behalf, to uncover the crimes being committed against them behind locked doors, and to keep their issue on the top of our national priorities. Unfortunately, while some arrests make the headlines, tens of other arrests remain sidelines, numbers added to the list of thousands locked up inside Israeli jails. Regardless of the excuses given, ALL Palestinian prisoners deserve our interest and our work and campaigning for their freedom, and they don’t deserve to be reduced to a single line added to certain petitions whenever we find it appropriate or necessary. And as long as there is still one single Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli jails, it is our duty to talk about them, to write about them and demand their release, every single one of them! It is our duty to mobilize local and international support and efforts for their protection and release. It is our duty to expose the crimes committed against them and the daily violation of their human rights starting with their right to be free. The 8500 Palestinians are our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, cousins, they are our families, they are us, every single one of us. Their pain is our pain, their suffering is our suffering, their struggle is our struggle, their captivity is our captivity and their freedom is our freedom. We are their voice and they depend on us to keep their issue alive and not forgotten.

According to latest statistics there are:
8500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
35 Palestinian women inside Israeli jails
337 Palestinian children inside Israeli jails
15 members of the Palestinian Parliament
19 Palestinian prisoners in isolation cells
257 Palestinian administrative detainees
2000 Palestinian prisoners in need of medical care
16 Palestinian prisoners suffer from cancer
160 Palestinian prisoners suffer from heart, kidney and blood pressure problems
80 Palestinian prisoners suffer from diabetes
12 Palestinian prisoners suffer from Hemiplegia
40 Palestinian prisoners suffer from mental and psychological ailments due to the interrogation methods used by the Israeli Shabak and the Israeli prison authorities, which include torture
198 Palestinian prisoners have been killed by the IOF since 1967: 70 as a result of torture, 71 killed in cold blood after being arrested, 50 as a result of medical negligence and 7 being shot dead inside prisons by the Israeli prison authorities
313 Palestinian "Veteran Prisoners" have been locked up in Israelis jails since before 1994
115 Palestinian "Deans of Prisoners" have spent 20+ years inside Israeli jails
14 Palestinian "Generals of Patience" have spent 25+ years inside Israeli jails

Since 1967; 198 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed by the IOF while in detention;

70 as a result of torture at the hands of Israeli Shabak and Israeli Prison Authority (IPA), 71 killed in cold blood after being arrested, 50 as a result of medical negligence by the IPA and 7 being shot dead inside prisons by the Israeli prison authorities.

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1Ahmad Mohammad Salamah Al-Neweri, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 08.06.1967 after arrest

2 Khalil Kamil Husein Syam, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 08.06.1967 after arrest

3 Zaki Hashim Mohammad Syam, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 08.06.1967 after arrest

4 Yousif Al-Jabali, from Nablus, killed on 04.01.1968 as a result of torture in Nablus prison

5 Khalil Salamah Qreinat Al-Rashaideh, from Bethlehem, killed on 28.04.1968 due to medical negligence

6 Mustafa Mohammad Hafith Harb, from Gaza, killed on 02.07.1968 due to torture

7 Fathi Abdel Fattah Al-Natsheh, from Hebron, killed on 28.07.1968 due to torture in Sarfand prison

8Younis Mubarak Hussein Abu Sbeitan, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 11.10.1968 due to torture in Sarfand prison

9 Qasem Ahmad Al-Ja’bari, from Hebron, killed on 27.05.1969 after being thrown from a military helicopter after his arrest

10 Qasem Abdallah Abu 'Aker, from Beit Hanina, Jerusalem, killed on 23.03.1969 due to torture in Jerusalem detention centre

11 Ahmad Msalam Abu 'Amerah, from Gaza, killed on 15.08.1969 due to torture in Gaza prison

12 Mohammad Khreizat, from South Lebanon, killed on 14.10.1969 was executed 2 days after his arrest

13 Qasem Abu Khadra, from Akka, killed on 04.11.1969 due to torture

14 Awn Said Hussein Al-'Ar’er, from Gaza, killed on 10.03.1970 due to torture in Majdal prison

15 Ahmad Khamis Ahmad Abu Dayyah, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 30.03.1970 executed upon arrest

16 Yousif Mohammad Mustafa I’seleh, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 30.03.1970 executed upon arrest

17 Ahmad 'Afaneh, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 30.03.1970 executed upon arrest

18 Abdel Qader Jabir Ahmad Abu Al-Fahim, from Jabalia, Gaza, killed on 11.05.1970 due to medical negligence after his participation in Askalan hunger strike

19 Haris Ali Abu Hayyeh, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 21.07.1970 executed after arrest

20 Othman Badawi Othman Al-Bahsh, from Nablus, killed on 28.08.1970 due torture in Nablus prison

21 Ali Ibrahim Ahmad Abu Sultan, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 01.10.1970, executed after arrest

22 Samih Said Abu Hasaballah, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 12.10.1970, executed after arrest

23 Deib Mousa Nasif Shtayyeh, from Salfit, killed on 25.10.1970 due to torture

24Hashim Ibrahim Hashim Karim, from Ash-Shati’ RC, Gaza, killed on 24.12.1970, due to torture in Ramleh prison

25 Salim Al-Haj Mahmoud Hasan Safi, from Dura, Hebron, killed on 06.01.1971 due to torture in Hebron prison

26 Mustafa Mohammad I’qel Al-Darabee’, from Dura, Hebron, killed on 22.02.1971 due to torture in Beir Al-Sabi’ prison

27 Muhyi Al-Din Sleiman Al-'Uri, from Ramallah, killed on 02.03.1971 due to torture in Ramallah prison

28 Al-Haj Ramadan 'Ashour Al-Banna, from Jerusalem, killed on 18.06.1971 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

29 Mohammad Hassan Mahmoud Wishah, from Bureij RC, Gaza, killed on 01.09.1971 due to torture in Gaza prison

30 Hasan Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Rukba, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 21.09.1971 executed upon arrest

31 Hasan As-Sawarkeh, from Al-'Arish, killed on 27.03.1972 due to tortur in Askalan prison

32 Isa Mutlaq Abdel Hamid, from Qabalan, killed on 09.06.1972 due to torture

33 Mustafa Al-Awawdeh, from Hebron, killed on 27.07.1972 due to torture in Hebron prison

34 Nasr-AlDin Fahmi Mohammad Al-Shakhshir, from Nablus, killed on 02.05.1973 due to torture in Askalan prison

35 Farez Husni As’ad Tashtoush, from Nablus, killed on 27.09.1973 due to torture in Nablus prison

36 Omar Shalabi, from Syria, killed on 22.10.1973 due to torture in Askalan prison

37 Salim Mohammad Mustafa Abu Sitta, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.10.1974 due to torture in Gaza prison

38 Omar Ahmad Awad-Allah, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 20.01.1975 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison

39 Jamil Diab Ali Barakat, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 25.10.1975 due to torture

40 Fouad Mohammad Salameh Hmeid, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 19.01.1976 due to torture in Askalan prison

41 Ahmad Deeb Ahmad Dahdoul, from Salfit, killed on 21.03.1976 due to torture

42 Mohammad Yousif Al-Khawaja, from Nilin, Ramallah, killed on 02.06.1976 due to torture & executed in Ramallah prison

43 Omran Ridwan Qrei’ Abu Khalaf, from Hebron, killed on 05.06.1976 due to medical negligence in Hebron prison

44 Khadir Isa Nimir Hilani, from Ramallah, killed on 14.06.1976 executed in Nablus prison

45 'Ajaj Yasin Jabir 'Alawneh, from Jab’, killed on 16.10.1976 due to medical negligence in Jenin prison

46 Nassar Sweilem Al-Hweitat, from Jordan, killed on 02.08.1977 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

47 Farid Hafith Ghannam, from Jab’, killed on 28.05.1978 due to medical negligence in Nablus prison

48 Yousif Ahmad Hasan Karim, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.07.1978 due to torture in Gaza prison

49 Nasir Al-Heb, from Syria, killed on 16.07.1978 due to torture in Ramleh prison

50 Said Abu Sitteh, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 18.01.1979 due to torture in Gaza prison

51 Idris Ibrahim Mohammad Nofal, from Gaza, killed on 21.08.1979 due to medical negligence in Gaza prison

52 Rasim Mohammad Halaweh, from Jabalia, Gaza, killed on 20.07.1980 due to medical negligence during Nafha hunger strike

53 Ali Shihadeh Mohammad Al-Ja’fari, from Dheisheh RC, Bethlehem, killed on 20.07.1980 due to medical negligence during Nafha hunger strike

54 Anis Mahmoud Dawleh, from Qalqilia, killed on 31.08.1980 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison

55 Faiz Abdel Fattah Mohammad Al-Tarayrah, from Bani N’em, Hebron, killed on 25.01.1981 due to torture

56 Salah Mohammad Ali Abbas, from Iraq, killed on 29.09.1981 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison

57 Ali Ibrahim Al-Shatrit, from Halhoul, Hebron, killed on 17.10.1981 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison

58 Salameh Mohammad Sleiman Al-Hasouni, from Si’eer, Hebron, killed on 22.11.1981 due to torture

59 Salim Ahmad Yahia Abu Sbeih, from Hebron, killed on 07.04.1982 due to medical negligence in Jneid prison

60 Yacoub Mohammad Dababeesh, from Gaza, killed on 28.10.1982 due to torture in Askalan prison

61 Hamzah Omar Othman Abu Sh’eb, from Jama’een, killed on 25.02.1983 due to torture in Tulkarim prison

62 Michael Lazaro, from Greece, killed on 12.03.1983 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

63 Khalil Ibrahim Abu Khadijah, from Ramallah, killed on 05.04.1983 due to torture in Ramallah prison

64 Ishaq Mousa Al-Maragha, from Silwan, Jerusalem, killed on 16.11.1983 due to medical negligence in Beir As-Sabi’ prison

65 Bilal Jamil Hamdan Al-Najjar Al-Burini, from Burin, Nablus, killed on 28.03.1984 executed after arrest

66 Jamal Mahmoud Qabalan, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.04.1984 executed after arrest

67 Mohammad Abu Jami’, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.04.1984 executed after arrest

68 Mahmoud Arabi Freitikh, from Nablus, killed on 16.04.1985 due to torture in Jneid prison

69 Mahmoud Salim Rabah Najajrah, from Nahhalen, Bethlehem, killed on 23.09.1985 due to medical negligence

70 Ghassan Ishaq Yousif Al-Lahham, from Dheisheh RC, Bethlehem, killed on 02.10.1985 due to torture in Ramleh prison

71 Tariq Al-Hindi, from Jerusalem, killed on 02.02.1986 due to torture in Askalan prison

72 Tariq Yasin Hashim Al-Hammouri, from Hebron, killed on 03.04.1987 due to torture in Jneid prison

73 Awwad Abdel Salam Hamdan, from Tulkarim, killed on 22.07.1987 due to torture

74 Khadir Ilyas Fouad At-Tarazi, from Gaza, killed on 09.02.1988 due to torture

75 Qandil Kamil Abdel Rahman 'Ilwan, from Jabalia, Gaza, killed on 24.02.1988 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison

76 Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Ra’i, from Qalqilia, killed on 11.04.1988 tortured & executed in Ramleh prison

77 Iyad Mohammad 'Aqil, from Bureij RC, Gaza, killed on 02.08.1988 due to torture

78 Nabil Mustafa Jamil Ibdah, from Beit Hanina, Jerusalem, killed on 10.08.1988 due to torture in Maskubiyyeh prison

79 Hani Deib Salim Ash-Shami, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 11.08.1988 due to torture

80 Ata Yousif Ahmad Ayyad, from Thahriyyeh, Hebron, killed on 14.08.1988 due to medical negligence

81 As’ad Jabra Zaki Ash-Shawwa, from Gaza, killed on 16.08.1988, executed in Ansar 3

82 Bassam Ibrahim Ali Al-Samoudi, from Yamoun, killed on 16.08.1988, executed in Ansar 3

83 Mohammad Mousa Mohammad Hammad, from Silwad, Ramallah, killed on 24.08.1988 due to medical negligence in Kfar Yona prison

84 Abdel Min’im Abdallah Hasan Kolk, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 14.10.1988 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

85 Ibrahim Yasir Al-Mutawwar, from Hebron, killed on 21.10.1988 due to torture

86 Nidal Zuhdi Omar Deib, from Ramallah, killed on 08.02.1989, executed in Majiddo prison

87 Mahmoud Yousif 'Ilyan Al-Masri, from Rafah, killed on 07.03.1989 due to torture in Gaza prison

88 Omar Mahmoud Al-Qasem, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.06.1989 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison

89 Mohammad Salih Hasan Ar-Rifi, from Gaza, killed on 10.08.1989 due to medical negligence in Ansar 3

90 Abdallah Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Mahruqa, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 12.09.1989, executed in Ansar 3

91 Jamal Mohammad Abdel Mu’ti Abu Sharkh, from Ash-Shati’ RC, Gaza, killed on 03.12.1989 due to torture in Gaza prison

92 Khalid Kamil Ash-Sheikh Ali, from Gaza, killed on 12.12.1989 due to torture in Gaza prison

93 Badir Mohammad Said Qaradeh, from Nablus, killed on 18.12.1989, executed upon arrest

94 Ra’iq Hussein Mousa Sleiman, from Ramin, killed on 13.02.1990 due to medical negligence in Majiddo prison

95 Sabri Mansour Abdallah Abed Rabbo, from Al-Jeeb, killed on 07.07.1990, executed in Ofer prison

96 Husam Salim Hani Qar’an, from Qalqilia, killed on 28.08.1990 due to torture in Ansar 3

97 Abdallah Yousif 'Alawneh, from Jenin, killed on 11.11.1990 due to torture

98 'Atiyah Abdel 'Ati Az-Za’aneen, from Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed on 13.11.1990 due to torture in Gaza prison

99 Ali Hasan Abdel-Halim Ash-Shahid, from Tulkarim, killed on 08.06.1991 due torture

100 Sami Nu’man Sleiman Zu’rub, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 22.08.1991 due to torture in Gaza prison

101Jasir Ahmad Said Abu Rmeileh , from Tulkarim, killed on 20.10.1991 due to medical negligence in Jneid prison

102 Mousa Abdel Rahman, from Nouba, killed on 18.01.1992, executed in prison

103 Mustafa Abdallah Al-Akkawi, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.02.1992 due to torture in Hebron prison

104 Ahmad Ibrahim Barakat, from Nablus, killed on 05.05.1992 due to torture in Ansar 3

105 Samir Omar Khamir Omar, from Ash-Shati’ RC, Gaza, killed on 31.05.1992 due to torture

106 Mohammad Sleiman Hussein Breis, from Khan Younis RC, Gaza, killed on 29.06.1992 due to torture in Ramleh prison

107 Hazim Mohammad Abdel Rahim Eid, from Al-Am’ari’ RC, Ramallah, killed on 09.07.1992 due to torture in Hebron prison

108 Mustafa Mahmoud Mustafa Barakat, from 'Anabta, killed on 04.08.1992 due to torture in Tulkarim prison

109 Hussein As’ad Ubeidat, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.10.1992 due to medical negligence during Askalan hunger strike

110 Ayman Ibrahim Barhoum, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 27.01.1993 due to torture in Ansar 3

111 Samir Mohammad Khamis Salameh, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 15.02.1993 due to torture in Beir As-Sabi’

112 Ayman Said Husein Nassar, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 02.04.1993 due to torture in Gaza prison

113 Mohammad Salameh Al-Jundi, from Al-'Arroub, Hebron, killed on 10.05.1993 due to torture in Hebron prison

114 Yahia Abdel Latif Ali An-Natour, from Tulkarim, killed on 10.09.1993 due to medical negligence in Jneid prison

115 Ahmad 'Adel Hasan Ismail, from An-Naqourah, killed on 07.10.1993 due to medical negligence in Nablus prison

116 Abdel Samad Salman Hreizat, from Yatta, Hebron, killed on 25.04.1995 due to torture in Maskubiyyeh prison

117 Ma’zouz Ahmad Mohammad Dalah, from Nablus, killed on 25.04.1995 due to torture

118 Walid Abdel Rahim Al-Sruji, from Tulkarim, killed on 04.03.1996 due to torture

119 Majid Abdallah Daghlas, from Burqin, Nablus, killed on 29.06.1996 due to torture

120 Riyadh Mahmoud Hammoudeh 'Idwan, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 12.01.1997 due to medical negligence in Beir As-Sabi’ prison

121 Khalid Ali 'Ayish Abu Dayyeh, from Bethlehem, killed on 21.05.1997 due to torture in Maskubiyye

122 Nidal Zakariya Abu Srour, from Aida RC, Bethlehem, killed on 29.01.1998 due to torture in Maskubiyye

123 Yousif Diab Al-'Ar’eer, from Gaza, killed on 20.06.1998 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

124 Ibrahim Mohammad Al-Barad’ah, from Sourif, Hebron, killed on 21.11.2000, executed upon arrest

125 Mohammad Yousif Al-Mughrabi, from Dheisheh RC, Bethlehem, killed on 10.12.2000, executed upon arrest

126 Mohammad Khalil Mohammad Ad-Dahhameen, from Hebron, killed on 12.04.2001 due to medical negligence in Majiddo prison

127 Hasan Said Ahmad Abu Sha’ira, from Azza RC, Bethlehem, killed on 14.06.2001, executed after arrest

128 Mahmoud Mousa Sleiman Khalil, from Jenin, killed on 01.07.2001, executed after arrest

129 Jamal Deif Allah Hasan Thalji, from Jenin, killed on 01.07.2001, executed after arrest

130 Mustafa Yousif Mohammad Yasin, from Jenin, killed on 23.07.2001, executed after arrest

131 Ali Ibrahim Al-Joulani, from Jerusalem, killed on 05.06.2001, executed after arrest

132 Hisham Mousa Abu Jamous, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 25.08.2001, executed after arrest

133 Sufian Ahmad Al-'Arda, from 'Arrabah, Jenin, killed on 12.09.2001, executed after arrest

134 Tha’ir Muhsin Al-Mahdawi, from Al-Far’a RC, Nablus, killed on 14.09.2001, executed after arrest

135 Jamal Hasan Khadir Abu Mallouh, from Deir Istia, Salfit, killed on 06.11.2001, executed after arrest

136 Iyad Odeh Mohammad Al-Khatib, from Deir Istia, Salfit, killed on 06.11.2001, executed after arrest

137 Ali Ibrahim Abu Hajleh, from Deir Istia, Salfit, killed on 06.11.2001, executed after arrest

138 Isa Khalil Mohammad Dababseh, from Yatta, Hebron, killed on 07.11.2001, executed after arrest

139 Midhat 'Azo Abu Dalal, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 18.11.2001, executed after arrest

140 Mohammad Ibrahim Hussein, from Gaza, killed on 18.11.2001, executed after arrest

141 Yousif Khalid As-Surkaji, from Nablus, killed on 22.01.2002, executed after arrest

142 Jasir As’ad Samaro, from Nablus, killed on 22.01.2002, executed after arrest

143 Nasim Shafiq Abu Al-Rus, from Nablus, killed on 22.01.2002, executed after arrest

144 Karim Munir Mafarjeh, from Ramallah, killed on 22.11.2002, executed after arrest

145 Nassar Hasan Abu Salim, from Rantis, Ramallah, killed on 26.01.2002, executed after arrest

146 Tariq Hasan Mohammad Al-Hindawi, from Gaza, killed on 12.02.2002, executed after arrest

147 Anwar Awni Mustafa Abdel Ghani, from Tulkarim, killed on 15.02.2002, executed after arrest

148 Abdel Ghani Abdel Rahman Abu Daggah, from Gaza, killed on 08.03.2002, executed after arrest

194 Mahmoud Said Salah, from Jerusalem, killed on 08.03.2002, executed after arrest

150 Basim Mohammad Abu Shihadeh, from Gaza, killed on 24.03.2002, executed after arrest

151 Khalid Fathi Awad Allah, from Jericho, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest

152 Ismail Ibrahim Zeid, from Beit Anan, Jerusalem, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest

153 Said Mohammad Mahdi, from Gaza, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest

154 Abdel Rahman Taqfiq Abdallah, from Nablus, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest

155 Omar Mohammad Mousa, from Jericho, killed on 08.03.2002, executed after arrest

156 Ahmad Fathi Mahmoud 'Ajjaj, from Seida, Tulkarim, killed on 30.03.2002, executed after arrest

157 'Azmi 'Adel Mahmoud 'Ajjaj, from Seida, Tulkarim, killed on 30.03.2002, executed after arrest

158 Baha’ Khalid Ash-Sharqawi, from Az-Zababdeh, Jenin, killed on 02.04.2002, executed after arrest

159 Hazim Ahmad Reihan Qabha, from Ya’bad, Jenin, killed on 14.04.2002, executed after arrest

160 Ahmad Hussein Abdel Salam Jawabreh, from Arroub RC, Hebron, killed on 28.05.2002 due to medical negligence in Majiddo prison

161 Ala’ Khadriyyeh, from Nablus, killed on 27.10.2002, executed after arrest

162 Yasin Said Al-Agha, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 10.12.2002, executed after arrest

163 Jadallah Mousa Shoukeh, from Bethlehem, killed on 13.12.2002, tortured & executed after arrest

164 Ibrahim Talib Abu Hawwash, from Nablus, killed on 25.12.2002, tortured & executed after arrest

165 Omran Abdel Ghani Gheith, from Hebron, killed on 30.12.2002, tortured & executed after arrest

166 Faiz Sabri Jabir, from Tulkarim RC, killed on 31.12.2002, executed after arrest

167 Walid Mohammad 'Amre, from Dura, Hebron, killed on 19.02.2003 due medical negligence in Nafha prison

168 Mohammad Ahmad Al-'Is’is, from Bethlehem, killed on 06.03.2003, executed after arrest

169 Jasir Jabir Hasaneen, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 10.06.2003, executed after arrest

170 Ahmad Khamis 'Atiyyah, from Qalqilia, killed on 22.11.2003, executed after arrest

171 Bashir Mohammad Ahmad 'Iweis, from Balata RC, Nablus, killed on 08.12.2003 due to medical negligence in Majiddo prison

172 Abdel 'Afo Mustafa Al-Qassas, from Nablus, killed on 06.01.2004, executed after arrest

173 Fawwaz Said Mohammad Al-Bulbul, from Tulkarim, killed on 16.09.2004 due to medical negligence in Majiddo prison

174 Falah Hasan Masharqa, from Nur Shams RC, Tulkarim, killed on 23.09.2004, tortured & executed after arrest

175 Mohammad Hasab Abu Hadwan, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.11.2004 due to medical negligence

176 Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Kmeil, from Jenin, killed on 03.12.2004, executed after arrest

177 Salah Omar Sheikh Al’eid, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 10.12.2004, executed after arrest

178 Rasim Sleiman Abu Gharra Ghneimat, from Kufr Malik, Ramallah, killed on 27.01.2005 due to medical negligence in Majiddo prison

179 Abdel Fattah Yousif Mahmoud Raddad, from Sida, Tulkarim, killed on 05.05.2005 due to medical negligence

180 Ali Mohammad Tawfiq Abu Al-Rub, from Jenin, killed on 15.06.2005 due to torture

181 Bashar 'Arif Abdel Wali Bani Odeh, from Tammoun, Jenin, killed on 23.06.2005 due to medical negligence in Jalbou’ prison

182 Jawad 'Adel Abdel Aziz Abu Maghseb, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 28.07.2005 due to medical negligence in Naqab

183 Sleiman Mohammad Mahmoud Darayja, from Taybeh, killed on 26.04.2006 due to medical negligence in Hasharon prison

184 Mazin Hani Shabat, from Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed on 05.11.2006, executed after released at a checkpoint

185 Salim Rajih Abu Al-Haija, from Al-Yamoun, Jenin, killed on 09.11.2006, executed after arrest

186 Mahmoud Rajih Zaki Abu Hasan, from Al-Yamoun, Jenin, killed on 09.11.2006, executed after arrest

187 Jamal Hasan Abdallah As-Sarrahen, from Beit Ola, Hebron, killed on 16.01.2007 due to medical negligence in Ansar 3 in Naqab

188 Wa’il Yousif Al-Qarrawi, from At-Turi, Jerusalem, killed on 09.03.2007 due to tortured

189 Maher Ata Mustafa Dandan, from Balata RC, Nablus, killed on 09.06.2007 due to medical negligence in Jalbou’ prison

190 Shadi Said As-Sa’aydeh, from Maghazi RC, Gaza, killed on 31.07.2007 due to medical negligence in Nafha prison

191 Omar 'Ayed Salman Mallouh Al-Masalmeh, from Beit Awwa, Hebron, killed on 25.08.2007 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

192 Mohammad Safi Al-Ashqar, from Sida, Tulkarim, killed on 22.10.2007, executed by Israeli prison authority

193 Fadi Abdel Latif Abu Al-Rub, from Qabatia, Jenin, killed on 28.12.2007 due to medical negligence in Jalbou’ prison

194 Fawwaz Awni Freihat, from Al-Yamoun, Jenin, killed on 07.01.2008, executed after arrest

195 Fadil Odeh Atiyah Shahin, from Gaza, killed on 29.02.2008 due to medical negligence in Beir As-Sabi’ prison

196 Jum’a Ismail Mousa, from Jerusalem, killed on 24.12.2008 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison

197 Obeideh Mahir Abdel Mu’ti Ad-Dweik, from Hebron, killed on 13.09.2009, executed after arrest

198 Ra’id Mahmoud Ahmad Abu Hammad, from Izariyyeh, Jerusalem killed on 16.04.2010 due to medical negligence.

For a list of Palestinian Martyr prisoners please see (http://poppiesofpalestine.wordpress.com/zionist-crimes/prison-martyrs/)

Sources:
www.addameer.info
www.dci-pal.or
www.palestinebehindbars.org
www.waed.ps
www.ahrar-pal.info
www.sabiroon.org
www.alasra.ps
www.elasra.ps

http://ppsmo.org

[1] //imeu.net
[2] http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=3088
[3] http://globalresearch.ca/articles/AVN408A.html
[4] www.friendsofhumanity.info
[5] www.ppsmo.org
[6] ibid.
[7] http://www.waed.ps/en/#