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Courts Sentence Sa'adat to Six Months More of Isolation - Take
Action!<br><br>
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<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/isolationoct24.html">In yet another
outrage and attack upon the humanity of Palestinian prisoners and the
Palestinian people, Ahmad Sa'adat was sentenced to an additional six
months in isolation inside Israeli prisons, an extension that will last
until April 21, 2011.</a></b> As actions and events took place throughout
Palestine and around the world - in the United States, Canada, Denmark,
New Zealand, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere - in
support of Sa'adat's struggle to end isolation and hundreds of letters
and petitions were delivered to prison officials from concerned human
rights advocates around the world, the Israeli authorities have sentenced
this Palestinian leader to another six months barred from human contact.
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Sa'adat has been held in isolation for over 500 days, since March 19,
2009. He has been confined without access even to the other prisoners in
the isolation unit and deprived of basic human rights. His personal books
have been confiscated and he is routinely denied access to media and
reading material in any language other than Hebrew. He has been denied
family visits, including from his wife Abla, and his lawyers have several
times been barred from visiting him. His recreation time has been limited
repeatedly. <br><br>
Isolation and prevention of human contact is widely understood by human
rights advocates to be ill-treatment that amounts to torture and/or
cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, in violation of the Geneva
Conventions. Ongoing and repeated isolation that will now stretch to over
two years, justified by vague declarations of "security" needs,
indicate that the Israeli regime is dedicated to attempting to isolate
Sa'adat not only from his fellow prisoners, but to isolate and silence
his voice among the Palestinian people. <br><br>
<b>Sa'adat's ongoing isolation only serves to make clear time and again
that the Israeli courts are merely an arm of the occupation, dedicated at
all levels to maintaining the oppression of the Palestinian people and
providing a "legal" pretext for ongoing brutality and human
rights abuses. <br><br>
</b>Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, has been held in Israeli jails since March 14,
2006, when he was abducted from Jericho prison, where he had been held in
a Palestinian Authority prison under U.S. and British guard. While
imprisoned in the PA jail in Jericho, he was elected to the Palestinian
Legislative Council. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison on
December 25, 2008 by an Israeli military court for his political
activity, and has spent over 500 days in continually-renewed isolation at
the present time. <br><br>
The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat salutes the human rights and Palestine
solidarity activists around the world who have rallied to struggle for
Sa'adat and the approximately 7,000 prisoners held in the jails of the
occupation. This work defeats the occupation's plans - it refuses to
allow the Palestinian prisoners, on a Palestinian, Arab or international
level, to be isolated. The voices of Ahmad Sa'adat and the Palestinian
prisoners will be heard, and no bars or isolation will prevent that.
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<b>The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat calls upon all to confront this
outrage - to continue to write, speak out, demonstrate, and demand that
Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian prisoners achieve their freedom.
Isolation will not silence Ahmad Sa'adat, the Palestinian prisoners or
the cause of the Palestinian people! <br><br>
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TAKE ACTION TODAY! <br><br>
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</b>1. <b>The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat calls upon all supporters of
justice and human rights to write to U.S. President Barack Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and demand an end to U.S. aid to
Israel.</b> The U.S. is responsible for Sa'adat's kidnapping - demand it
end now! <br><br>
<b>Write here:
<a href="http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/action4.html">
http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/action4.html</a><br><br>
2. The Campaign in Solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat in Palestine is calling
upon all supporters to write letters to the Israeli Prison Service and
demand they end the practice of isolation, end human rights violations,
and free Palestinian prisoners.</b> Send an email to the Bureau of the
Minister of Public Security at
<a href="mailto:sar@mops.gov.il">sar@mops.gov.il</a> and to the Public
Complaints Department at
<a href="mailto:mevaker@mops.gov.il">mevaker@mops.gov.il</a>, and copy
the following: <br><br>
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Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister, 3,
Kaplan Street, PO Box 187, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem, Israel, Fax:
+972- 2-651 2631, Email:
<a href="mailto:pm_eng@pmo.gov.il">pm_eng@pmo.gov.il</a><br><br>
Mr. Menachem Mazuz, Attorney General, Fax: + 972 2 627 4481; + 972 2 628
5438; +972 2 530 3367<br><br>
Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, Military Judge Advocate General, 6
David Elazar Street, Hakirya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Fax: +972 3 608 0366,
+972 3 569 4526, Email:
<a href="mailto:arbel@mail.idf.il">arbel@mail.idf.il</a>,
<a href="mailto:arbel@mail.idf.il">avimn@idf.gov.il</a><br><br>
Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and Specialized
Institutions in Geneva, Avenue de la Paix 1-3, 1202 Geneva, Fax: +41 22
716 05 55, Email:
<a href="mailto:mission-israel@geneva.mfa.gov.il">
mission-israel@geneva.mfa.gov.il</a><br><br>
<b>You may use our online form at:
<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/action3.html">
http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/action3.html</a>.<br><br>
</b>3. <b>Write a letter to Ahmad Sa'adat. Letters of support are
important and demonstrate solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian
prisoners - let him know that the world is demanding his freedom.
</b>Email the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat at
<a href="mailto:info@freeahmadsaadat.org">info@freeahmadsaadat.org</a>
with your letters, or use our contact form at:
<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/contact.html">
http://freeahmadsaadat.org/contact.html</a>. We will send all letters
received to Palestine. We also encourage you to write to him directly
using this address: <b>Ahmad Sa'adat, Ramon Prison, Ramon area, PO Box
699, Postal Code 80600, Israel</b>.<br><br>
<b>The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat<br>
<a href="http://freeahmadsaadat.org/">http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org</a>
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<a href="mailto:info@freeahmadsaadat.org">info@freeahmadsaadat.org</a><br>
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