[Pnews] Palestinian Samer Issawi Re-arrested: End the Mass Arrests!

[Prisoner News]

  Take Action: Samer Issawi Arrested: End the Mass Arrests!

*http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/take-action-samer-issawi-arrested-end-the-mass-arrests-support-hunger-strikers/*

Samer Issawi, long-term hunger striker and freed Palestinian prisoner, 
has been re-arrested by occupation forces on June 23 
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/patrick-strickland/israeli-forces-rearrest-hunger-striker-samer-issawi>, 
part of a massive attack on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, 
including hundreds of raids and arrests. *Take action now to demand his 
freedom, end the mass arrests and raids! 
<http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/take-action-samer-issawi-arrested-end-the-mass-arrests-support-hunger-strikers/#letter> 
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Issawi's 266 day hunger strike captured the attention of the world. 
Released from Israeli prisons in the "Wafa al-Ahrar" prisoner exchange 
with over 1000 other Palestinians in exchange for captured Israeli 
soldier Gilad Shalit, he had been re-arrested for allegedly leaving the 
municipal borders of Jerusalem, which the occupation charged violated 
his release. Following his 277 day hunger strike, pressure due to his 
strike pushed the Israeli state to concede its attempt to re-impose his 
original sentence, and after serving 17 months in prison, he was 
released in December 2013.

*Tweet: Take Action! Samer Issawi arrested,occupation forces attack 
Palestinians. Free Palestinian Prisoners, End the Raids! 
http://ctt.ec/X8oID+ <http://ctt.ec/X8oID>*

The occupation has not stopped its harassment of the Issawi family 
following Samer's widely-publicized hunger strike. Shireen Issawi, a 
Palestinian lawyer, Samer's sister and the spokesperson for his campaign 
during his hunger strike, is currently imprisoned and awaiting a 
military trial in a case targeting Palestinian lawyers. Shireen's case, 
which has also included threats to Samer's brothers and a number of 
Palestinian lawyers who represent prisoners, is attempting to cut 
prisoners' communications to the outside world by prosecuting lawyers 
for allegedly passing information between prisoners and Palestinian 
political and resistance organizations outside.

Since June 14, occupation authorities have arrested at least 471 
Palestinians in raids and mass arrests throughout the West Bank. Former 
political prisoners have been particularly targeted, and at least 52 of 
the prisoners released in the Wafa al-Ahrar exchange have now been 
re-arrested. Five Palestinians have been killed, universities raided and 
Gaza bombed under the pretext of the disappearance of three settlers 
near occupied al-Khalil.

*Take Action!*

1. Sign on to the petition to demand freedom for Samer Issawi and the 
victims of mass raids! 
<http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/take-action-samer-issawi-arrested-end-the-mass-arrests-support-hunger-strikers/#letter>

2. Write to the International Committee of the Red Cross and demand it 
fulfill its responsibilities to Palestinian prisoners and publicly 
condemn the mass arrest raids, attacks and the policy of administrative 
detention which is in clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, 
as stipulated by the ICRC mandate to protect international humanitarian 
law. Email the ICRC, whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the 
conditions of prisoners, at JER_jerusalem at icrc.org 
<mailto:JER_jerusalem at icrc.org>.

3. Organize a protest or action in your city against the attacks on 
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Demonstrate outside an Israeli 
consulate or embassy in your city. 
<http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/abouttheministry/pages/web%20sites%20of%20israeli%20missions%20abroad.aspx>

4. Share this alert via email, Facebook 
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Twitter <http://ctt.ec/X8oID> with your colleagues, comrades, friends 
and contacts.

Thank you for acting on our alert and supporting the cause of 
Palestinian prisoners for freedom and justice.
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