Palestinian Hunger-Striker Khader Adnan Struggles for Freedom

[polly7]

Posted 13 June 2015 12:37 GMT


Khader Adnan plays with his daughters on his first day out of Israeli jail in the West Bank village of Araba, near Jenin, April 18, 2012. (Photo: Activestills/ Oren Ziv)

Khader Adnan has entered his 40th day of hunger strike after nearly a year in an Israeli jail in the occupied West Bank. Adnan — who is among an estimated 5,591 Palestinian “security detainees and prisoners” who were being held in Israeli prisons, according to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem — became the symbol of Palestinian ‘administrative detainees’ held by Israel after going on hunger strike for 66 days in 2011.

According to Israeli daily Haartez, Adnan “is in Assaf Harofeh Hospital in Tzrifin with one hand and one leg cuffed to the bed 24-hours a day and three policemen in his room around the clock.” This is the ninth time he is put “under administrative detention.”

Budour Youssef Hassan summarized Adnan's journey for the Electronic Intifada (EI):

Khader Adnan’s experience of persecution and arrests stretches back to 1999, when the then undergraduate mathematics student at Birzeit University was arrested by Israeli occupation forces on charges of affiliation with the Islamic Jihad political party.

It was the first in a series of detentions — amounting to a total of more than six years in Israeli jails — during which Adnan has never been handed any formal charges or been given a trial even by the Israeli military courts which are notorious for failing to meet minimum international standards.

Full article: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/06/13/palestinian-hunger-striker-khader-adnan-struggles-for-freedom/?utm_source=Global+Voices&utm_campaign=179477c5eb-June15_2015_Daily_Digest_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_633e82444a-179477c5eb-287939489

Israel uses administrative detention routinely as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians, and frequently uses administrative detention when it fails to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.

There are around 500 detainees serving administrative detention in several Israeli jails.

[Jefferson23]

1. K&R for awareness.

Thanks, polly.

[polly7]

2. You're very welcome. So sad. nt.

[Jefferson23]

3. Cruel...utterly so. n/t

[azurnoir]

4. held for nearly a year with no charges filed against him

sounds like something Bush would do