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<h2><b><a href="http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/khaderadnan-feb8.html">
Khader Adnan - Dying to Live, Fighting for
Freedom</a></u></b></h2><font size=3><b>The situation of
<a href="http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/khaderadnan.html">Khader
Adnan</a>, imprisoned Palestinian activist held without charge or trial
under administrative detention, is urgent. </b>Khader Adnan has been on
an ongoing hunger strike since December 17, 2011, protesting abuse of his
family, torture and inhumane treatment, and the use of administrative
detention to imprison Palestinian activists without charge or trial.
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<b>Khader Adnan has completed 53 days of hunger strike and is now in a
severe medical condition.
</b><a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428">Bobby Sands,
the martyr of the Irish republican prisoners' movement, died after </a>66
days of hunger strike, demanding justice and human rights from his own
colonial captors, much as Khader Adnan did today.<br><br>
<b>Ahmad Sa'adat, imprisoned Palestinian national leader, joined with
Marwan Barghouti from his isolation cell today to urge the immediate
release of Khader Adnan.</b> The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat echoes
this call and urges activists around the world to raise the call to free
Khader Adnan, a symbol of the resistance, resilience, steadfastness and
courage of Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people, who has put
his body and his life on the line inside the occupation's jails, to claim
his dignity, his rights, and the rights of his people.<br><br>
<b>TAKE ACTION: Please see the action items below, or write a letter and
sign a petition at this widely circulated call:
<a href="http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/take-action-for-hunger-striking-palestinian-prisoner-khader-adnan/">
http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/take-action-for-hunger-striking-palestinian-prisoner-khader-adnan/</a>
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Picket, protest or call the Israeli embassy or consulate in your location
and demand the immediate freedom of Khader Adnan, Ahmad Sa'adat and all
Palestinian political prisoners</b>. Make it clear that you are watching
the situation of Khader Adnan and that Israel is responsible for his
health and life, and demand an end to the use of isolation, solitary
confinement, and administrative detention. Send us reports of your
protests at Israeli embassies and consulates
at<a href="mailto:campaign@freeahmadsaadat.org">
campaign@freeahmadsaadat.org</a>.<br><br>
<b>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.</b> 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
Khader Adnan. Make it clear that arbitrary detention without charge or
trial is unacceptable, and that the ICRC must act to protect Palestinian
prisoners from cruel and inhumane treatment.<br><br>
<b>BACKGROUND<br><br>
</b><a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428">Addameer
details the experience of Khader Adnan</a> with the Israeli occupation.
He is currently held under administrative detention (arbitrary detention
without charge or trial, based on secret evidence, and renewable
indefinitely for repeated periods of up to six months.) Khader Adnan was
issued a four-month administrative detention order on January 8, which
was confirmed on February 6. This is the eighth time Adnan has been
detained, and he has served a total of six years in Israeli prisons -
mostly without charge or trial under the administrative detention
scheme.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428">Addameer</a>
reports:<br><br>
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<dd>Khader was arrested on 17 December 2011, when Israeli Occupying
Forces (IOF) raided his home outside Jenin at 3:30 am. Before entering
his house, soldiers used the driver that takes Khader’s father to the
vegetable market, Mohammad Mustafa, as a human shield by forcing him to
knock on the door of the house and call out Khader’s name while
blindfolded. A huge force of soldiers then entered the house shouting.
Recognizing Khader immediately, they grabbed him violently in front of
his two young daughters and ailing mother.<br><br>
<dd>The soldiers blindfolded him and tied his hands behind his back using
plastic shackles before leading him out of his house and taking him to a
military jeep. Khader was then thrown on his back and the soldiers began
slapping him in the face and kicking his legs. They kept him lying on his
back until they reached Dutan settlement, beating him on the head
throughout the 10-minute drive. When they reached the settlement, Khader
was pushed aggressively out of the jeep. Because of the blindfold, Khader
did not see the wall right in front of him and smashed into it, causing
injuries to his face.<br><br>
</dl>Following his arrest, he was taken to interrogation, refused medical
care and treatment, subject to physical abuse and mistreatment including
being tied to a chair in a stressful position, causing extreme back pain,
and pulling on his beard so hard that his hair was ripped out. Khader was
subjected to abusive language about his family, and refused to speak any
further to interrogators, as well as refusing food. In retaliation, he
was placed into isolation and solitary confinement, denied family visits,
awakened in the middle of the night and strip-searched. He has refused to
end his strike, protesting the illegitimacy of his arbitrary detention by
an illegal occupation authority as well as cruel and inhumane treatment
and abuse.<br><br>
This is not his first hunger strike - in 2005 he protested his isolation
in Kfar Yuna with a 12-day hunger strike. Addameer has emphasized that
the Israeli occupation is responsible for his life.<br><br>
<h2><b><a href="http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/">The Campaign to Free
Ahmad
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