[Pnews] Palestine - Khader Adnan on hunger strike for 38 days against imprisonment without charge or trial

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  Khader Adnan on hunger strike for 38 days against imprisonment without
  charge or trial

9 October 2018
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Palestinian prisoner and political leader Khader Adnan 
<https://samidoun.net/2015/07/khader-adnan-qa-it-is-possible-to-break-the-israeli-occupation/> 
has been on hunger strike for 38 days <http://asravoice.ps/post/10425/> 
inside Israeli prisons, demanding his release from administrative 
detention without charge or trial. Adnan, 40, a former long-term hunger 
striker 
<https://samidoun.net/2015/07/khader-adnan-palestinian-hero-and-long-term-hunger-striker-released/>, 
has drawn widespread Palestinian and international support for his 
strikes against his detention on various occasions without charge or 
trial under Israeli administrative detention order.

Since he announced his strike, he has been held in isolation and 
repeatedly transferred, most recently to Jalameh prison. Adnan’s wife, 
Randa, denounced what she referred to as a “media blackout” on his 
strike, saying that he has received a legal visit only once and only one 
visit from the International Committee of the Red Cross since he began 
his strike. The Red Cross was supposed to visit him again on Monday, 8 
October but were told that he was “elsewhere” and the visit postponed.

She urged greater solidarity with his hunger strike, which aims not only 
to demand his own release but to raise the Palestinian prisoners’ 
struggle to the forefront of the political agenda.

In a letter Adnan sent <http://www.wattan.tv/ar/news/266235.html> from 
inside Israeli prisons, he said that “freedom and dignity are more 
precious than food.” He recounted his latest arrest on 11 December 2017, 
noting that occupation forces assaulted his wife, two daughters and 
elderly father, pushing and shoving them. He was handcuffed from behind 
and blindfolded before being trampled and beaten by rifle butts in the 
military vehicle.

He said that he was taken to interrogation as well as rooms with 
collaborators in an attempt to extract confessions, but that he refused 
to give any answers or information. He said that for this reason he was 
always held without charge or trial under administrative detention or on 
the basis of others’ confessions under the so-called “Tamir” law, which 
allows Palestinians to be tried solely based on the confessions of others.

Adnan’s letter also emphasized that he does not recognize the occupation 
or its courts, saying that the individual and collective strikes of the 
prisoners are a means of seeking freedom and an extension of all of the 
forms of resistance Palestinians are engaged in outside prison.

Adnan’s father also spoke at a protest 
<http://www.wattan.tv/ar/news/266421.html> on Monday, 8 October, calling 
for his son’s release and standing in solidarity with the women 
prisoners’ protest against surveillance cameras. He said that the 
occupation is preventing lawyers and the Red Cross from seeing his son 
and demanded that official Palestinian Authority spokespeople end their 
silence on Adnan’s case. Muhammad Allan, another former long-term hunger 
striker, denounced the PA for its continued security coordination with 
Israel, even as prisoners face ongoing attacks and violations.

Adnan is not the only Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike. Also on 
strike is Omran al-Khatib <http://asravoice.ps/post/10316>, 60, from 
Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza. He has been striking for 66 days to demand 
his early release; he has spent 21 years in Israeli jails to date and is 
suffering from serious health problems.

*Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network calls for solidarity 
with Khader Adnan in his hunger strike. In 2012, Adnan’s 66-day hunger 
strike inspired protests and mobilizations, solidarity strikes and 
actions in communities and on campuses around the world. Today, it is 
just as critical to highlight the struggle of Palestinian prisoners 
confronting administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or 
trial – and all prisoners engaged in their resistance behind Israeli bars.*

*Take Action!*

*1.* *Protest at the Israeli consulate or embassy for Khader Adnan and 
all Palestinian prisoners.*Bring posters and flyers about administrative 
detention and Palestinian hunger strikers and hold a protest, or join a 
protest with this important information. Hold a community event or 
discussion, or include this case in your next event about Palestine and 
social justice.

*2. Boycott, Divest and Sanction.* Hold Israel accountable for its 
violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign 
to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. 
Learn more at bdsmovement.net <http://bdsmovement.net/>.

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