[Ppnews] Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh’s administrative detention renewed for fourth time

[Political Prisoner News]

  Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh’s administrative detention renewed
  for fourth time

http://samidoun.ca/2012/09/palestinian-writer-ahmad-qatameshs-administrative-detention-renewed-for-fourth-time/?print=1

The administrative detention of Palestinian writer and thinker Ahmed 
Qatamesh was renewed for a fourth time on September 5, 2012 by an 
occupation military court. Qatamesh was arrested on April 21, 2011 and 
his detention has been extended four times to date.

This is not his first time in Israeli jails – he was arrested in 1992 
and held for 100 days under severe torture, an experience detailed in 
his memoir, “I Shall Not Wear Your Tarboush.” When no incriminating 
evidence or confession was forthcoming, Qatamesh was placed in 
administrative detention without charge or trial, renewed repeatedly for 
nearly six years until his release in 1998. He is one of the 
longest-held Palestinian prisoners in administrative detention.

Amnesty International, which also denounced his earlier detention in the 
mid-1990s, recognizes Ahmed Qatamesh as a prisoner of conscience and 
calls for his release:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/011/2012/en/e4bedf45-e641-4898-b69f-169181bd6e50/mde150112012en.html

Article by Ahmad’s daughter Haneen about his arrest: 
http://electronicintifada.net/content/when-israeli-soldiers-came-arrest-my-father/9901

Addameer profile of Ahmad Qatamesh:
http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=156

1998 interview with Ahmad Qatamesh:

http://www.freearabvoice.org/interviewSeniorAdministrativeDetaineeQatamesh.htm

In 1999, Ahmad Qatamesh was detained by the Palestinian Authority for 
joining a protest against corruption: 
http://www.phrmg.org/pressrelease/1999/04dec1999.htm

Write to Ahmad Qatamesh:
Ahmad Qatamesh, Ofer Prison, Givat Zeev, PO Box 3007, via Israel

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