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<h1 id="reader-title">Israeli military court reimposes life
sentence on longest-held Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">February 22, 2017<br>
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<p>The Israeli occupation Ofer military court<a
href="http://www.maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=893681">
reimposed the original prison sentence of life plus 18
years</a> against Palestinian prisoner <a
href="http://samidoun.net/2017/02/take-action-ofer-military-court-to-issue-decision-in-case-of-nael-barghouthi-on-wednesday/">Nael
Barghouthi</a>. Barghouthi has spent 36 years in
Israeli prison and is the longest-held Palestinian
prisoners.</p>
<p>He was released in October 2011 as part of the <a
href="http://samidoun.net/2016/10/five-years-on-the-wafa-al-ahrar-agreement-and-prisoner-exchange/">Wafa
al-Ahrar prisoner exchange</a> with over 1,000 fellow
Palestinian political prisoners. He was re-arrested by
Israeli occupation forces in June 2014 alongside dozens
of former prisoners released in the exchange; under
Israeli military order 1651, former Palestinian
prisoners released in an exchange can have their former
sentences reimposed on the basis of “secret evidence” at
the discretion of an Israeli military commission.</p>
<p>While nearly 60 Palestinian prisoners had their
original sentences reimposed, mostly on the basis of
association with members of “prohibited organizations” –
otherwise known as every major Palestinian political
party – Barghouthi was sentenced to 30 months in Israeli
prison. At the time of his release, he had been the
longest-serving Palestinian prisoner after 34 years of
imprisonment. He has now served 36 years in Israeli
prison.</p>
<p>On 17 December, Barghouthi’s 30-month sentence expired,
yet he was <a
href="http://samidoun.net/2017/01/nael-barghouthi-denied-release-threatened-with-reimposition-of-former-life-sentence/">denied
release</a> on the basis of an appeal filed by the
Israeli military prosecution calling for the
reimposition of his original life sentence plus 18
years. He was originally imprisoned on the basis of
participating in a commando operation with fellow Fateh
fighters that killed one Israeli settler near the
illegal West Bank settlement of Halamish.</p>
<p>Barghouthi’s wife Iman Nafie, a fellow former prisoner
who he married after his release in 2011, and his
lawyers filed appeals demanding his release, which was
denied by the military court. Now, Barghouthi’s original
sentence has once again been reimposed, while his family
and lawyers have pledged to continue the struggle for
his freedom and that of his fellow reimprisoned former
prisoners.</p>
<p>The sentencing of Barghouthi is cast into particularly
egregious relief coming only one day after the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/israeli-who-executed-injured-palestinian-gets-slap-wrist">18-month
sentence meted out to Israeli occupation soldier Elor
Azaria</a> for deliberately murdering a captured
Palestinian, Abdel-Fattah al-Sharif, after he had
already been wounded and was laying on the ground,
incapacitated.</p>
<p><strong>Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity
Network denounces the racist re-sentencing of Nael
Barghouthi, part of a systematic policy that is
holding re-captured former prisoners hostage in an
attempt to pressure the Palestinian resistance through
arbitrary detention of long-time strugglers for the
Palestinian people. In New York City, Samidoun will <a
href="http://samidoun.net/2017/02/24-february-nyc-protest-to-free-nael-barghouthi-and-stop-hp/">rally
on Friday, 24 February at 5:30 pm</a> at Union
Square outside the Best Buy at 52 E. 14th Street to
denounce the reimposition of Barghouthi’s sentence and
call for his freedom and that of all Palestinian
prisoners. We urge all international supporters of the
Palestinian people to take action and build solidarity
with Nael Barghouthi and his fellow imprisoned
Palestinian strugglers.</strong></p>
<p><strong>TAKE ACTION:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Sign and share the Change.org petition to
urge international officials to take action for Nael
Barghouthi’s release: <a
href="https://www.change.org/p/international-officials-pressure-israel-to-free-nael-barghouthi"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.change.org/p/international-officials-pressure-israel-to-free-nael-barghouthi&source=gmail&ust=1483524915557000&usg=AFQjCNHnYbLod5aYJ7zi42ebjSXucBrBlg">https://www.change.org/p/international-officials-pressure-israel-to-free-nael-barghouthi</a></strong></li>
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<li><strong>Organize a protest, demonstration, speaking
event or banner drop in your city,</strong>
community or campus calling for freedom for Nael
Barghouthi and his fellow Palestinian prisoners.</li>
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