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- Isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat continued in violation of promise to
prisoners</a><br><br>
<i><a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/1027takeaction.html">A Call from
Occupied Palestine to the Occupy Movement<br><br>
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<a href="http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/"><b>The Campaign to Free
Ahmad Sa'adat</a><br>
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www.freeahmadsaadat.org + info@freeahmadsaadat.org<br>
</a>Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/freeahmadsaadat">
http://twitter.com/freeahmadsaadat</a><br><br>
October 27, 2011<br><br>
</b>Only one week after promising Palestinian political prisoners that
isolation would end and that all prisoners in isolation would be returned
to the general population, in order to convince those prisoners to end
their hunger strike, <b>Israeli authorities have announced their
intention to continue the isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat for at least one
more year.<br><br>
</b>As reported by the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights
Association, an Israeli court in Bir Saba issued a ruling on October 27,
2011 to extend the isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat for an additional year.
<b>Ahmad Sa'adat has already been held in isolation for over two and
one-half years. His release from isolation was a key demand of
Palestinian prisoners' recent hunger strike - and was promised to them
one week ago.<br><br>
</b>The ruling, which was based on secret evidence like all such rulings,
dates back to August 8 but was not released until today; Ahmad Sa'adat
was not accompanied by lawyers in the hearing.<br><br>
<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/oct18hospital.html">The prison
administration had promised to end isolation following Palestinian
prisoners' hunger strike. </a><b>This decision is tantamount to torture -
and a direct violation of the agreement with Palestinian prisoners to end
their hunger strike, which had drawn the eyes of the world to their
struggle.<br><br>
20 Palestinian prisoners remain in isolation, despite the strike's
suspension on October 17. Israel had promised that they would be released
from isolation immediately following the release of 477 prisoners in a
prisoner exchange agreement - however, Israel's prison administration has
acted in complete violation of its word.<br><br>
</b>On October 18, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez called in
the UN General Assembly for all use of isolation longer than 15 days to
be banned, saying that isolation can cause "severe mental pain or
suffering" and "can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment when used as a punishment, during
pre-trial detention, indefinitely or for a prolonged
period...Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown,
supermax, the hole, secure housing unit... whatever the name, solitary
confinement should be banned by states as a punishment or extortion
technique."<br><br>
The punishment, isolation and extortion of Ahmad Sa'adat for his ongoing
courage and commitment as a leader of Palestinian prisoners and the
Palestinian people must end. <b>International action and solidarity is
necessary!<br><br>
</b>The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat reprints the following call
received from activists in Palestine:<br><br>
<b>A Call from Occupied Palestine to the Occupy Movement - From occupied
Palestine, from our occupied lands, from our camps of refuge, from the
prisons of torture and the prisoners of freedom, from our stolen lands,
our chained borders, our demolished homes and our revolution, our
commitment, our struggle for freedom:<br><br>
</b>For us, the word occupation has always stood for colonialism, land
theft, genocide, dispossession, and death. It is a word and a concept we
have fought to bring to an end for over sixty years. Yet the Occupy
movement that has arisen in public squares, in cities and towns around
the world, from the centre of imperialism in the US, Wall Street itself,
is an occupation that can serve as a source of hope for liberation, for
decolonization, for an <b>end</b> to the racist occupation of our
homeland.<br><br>
Seeing the youth of the West in the streets rejecting the brutal
consequences of the system of imperialism and capitalism once more, we
salute you, we stand with you, and we call: "Occupy Wall Street,
Liberate Palestine!"<br><br>
Our political prisoners stood steadfast through three weeks of hunger
strike and have today been confronted by yet one more lie, another broken
promise on the heap of lies and broken promises of the occupier - rather
than our prisoners being freed from isolation, they are remaining in
isolation. Ahmad Sa'adat, Palestinian national leader, having already
spent two and a half years in solitary confinement, is slapped with yet
one more year.<br><br>
<b>We call upon you to make it clear that despite solitary confinement,
Ahmad Sa'adat and the Palestinian prisoners are not isolated, and are
part of a global movement and global solidarity. We call upon you to
raise the voices, the pictures, and the stories of Palestinian political
prisoners at Occupy Wall Street and all Occupy movement events. We, the
Palestinian people are also the 99%, those victimized by war profiteers,
by racism, by imperialism, by displacement and genocide. Our thousands of
prisoners remain in the prisons of the illegal, illegitimate
occupier.<br><br>
Raise their voices among yours, and stand together for the liberation of
Wall Street, Palestine, and all of our oppressed and stolen land and
people!<br><br>
</font><h2><b>Take Action!</b></h2><font size=3>1. Picket, protest or
call
<a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Diplomatic+missions/Web+Sites+of+Israeli+Missions+Abroad.htm">
the Israeli embassy or consulate in your location</a> and demand the
immediate freedom of Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian political
prisoners.<b> Make it clear that you expect the demands of Palestinian
prisoners on hunger strike to be immediately implemented, including an
immediate end to the isolation of Ahmad Sa'adat! </b> Send us reports of
your protests at Israeli embassies and consulates.<br><br>
2. <b>Bring the struggle of Palestinian prisoners to Occupy protests,</b>
as will happen in New York City on Friday, October 28
(<a href="http://www.existenceisresistance.org/archives/1176">Existence
is Resistance Kuffeya Day</a>) and has happened in
<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/ijan107.html">New York, Chicago and
San Francisco</a>. Download and distribute
the<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/flyer-as.pdf"><b>flyer</a></b>,
hold a rally or teach-in and express solidarity.<br><br>
3. Distribute the <a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/flyer-as.pdf">free
downloadable Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat flyer </a>in your community
at local events.<br><br>
4. Write to the International Committee of the Red Cross and other human
rights organizations to exercise their responsibilities and act swiftly
to demand that the prisoners' demands are implemented. Email the ICRC,
whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the conditions of
prisoners, at
<a href="mailto:JER_jerusalem@icrc.org">JER_jerusalem@icrc.org</a>, and
inform them about the urgent situation of Ahmad Sa'adat. Make it clear
that isolation is a human rights violation, a form of torture, and that
Palestinian prisoners were coerced into stopping their hunger strike with
false promises of the recognition of their rights, and that the ICRC must
stand up and play its role to defend prisoners' rights. <br><br>
5. Email the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat at
<a href="mailto:info@freeahmadsaadat.org">info@freeahmadsaadat.org
</a>with announcements, reports and information about your local events,
activities and flyer distributions. <br>
<b>The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat<br><br>
<a href="http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/">
http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/</a><br><br>
<a href="mailto:info@freeahmadsaadat.org">info@freeahmadsaadat.org</a><br>
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Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/freeahmadsaadat">
http://twitter.com/freeahmadsaadat</a><br><br>
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