[Pnews] Samer Issawi Released From Prison - Israeli forces raid Issawi home, ban celebration

[Prisoner News]

  Samer Issawi Released From Prison

author Monday December 23, 2013 18:55author by Chris Carlson
*http://www.imemc.org/article/66610*

Israeli forces raid Issawi home, ban celebration

[Monday, December 23, 2013] Samer Issawi, iconic Palestinian political 
prisoner and hunger strike organizer, was released today, following over 
17 months in Shatta Prison.

Family members said that Israeli forces raided his house, on Monday, and 
prohibited them from organizing any celebrations, the Ma'an News Agency 
has reported.

Israeli intelligence, accompanied by soldiers, raided Issawi's family 
home near Jerusalem, a day after raiding the house to issue orders for 
his father and brother to report for interrogation by Israeli 
intelligence officers.

Furthermore, the soldiers reportedly added that no marching in 
celebration of his release would be tolerated at any hour of the day, 
their intention being to prevent neighbors and friends from welcoming 
Issawi home in the traditional way.

He was originally arrested by Israeli forces during the Second Intifada, 
but was among hundreds of prisoners released, in 2011, as part of a 
bargain for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

He subsequently launched a hunger strike against the renewed detention, 
ending the strike only after Israel agreed to release him.

Samer Issawi's hunger strike was one of the longest, ever in history, 
and brought him close to death.

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According to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs, 
5,200 Palestinians were being held in Israeli jails as of October, 2013. 
Another 1,280 are in Israeli prisons, allegedly for being inside Israel 
without permits.

Since 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel.

Under international law, it is illegal to transfer prisoners outside of 
the occupied territory in which they are detained, and families face 
many obstacles in obtaining visting rights within the Israeli prison system.

The internationally recognized Palestinian territories, of which the 
West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part, have been occupied by Israeli 
forces since 1967, with increasing violations and attacks by settlers in 
the region.

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