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21 February 2012
Lawyers for Khader Adnan have reached a deal with Israel for Adnan to be released on 17 April, Addameer announced today via Twitter. Khader Adnan has agreed to end his hunger strike. Addameer said the deal appears to meet minimum conditions Adnan had previously communicated to lawyers. Read more about Deal reached to end Khader Adnan's detention by 17 April; 66 day hunger strike ends
21 February 2012
Khader Adnan, the Palestinian who has been on hunger strike for 66 days against his detention without charge or trial is in high spirits and sends greetings to all who support him, despite signs of further decline in his health according to a lawyer who visited him on Monday. Read more about Hunger striker Khader Adnan "will not back down," sends greetings to supporters as health deteriorates further
21 February 2012
Khader Adnan is fighting for rights that should be guaranteed to all prisoners. Organizations from all over the world have launched a call to make Palestinian Political Prisoners’ Day, 17 April 2012, a day of international action. Read more about The world must heed Khader Adnan's call to respect rights of Palestinian political prisoners
20 February 2012
Tuesday, February 21st is a general strike in solidarity with Khader Adnan, an action that is outside the walls of social media and aims at pressuring the Palestinian leadership to act upon securing the release of Adnan and all Palestinian prisoners. Read more about February 21st General Strike in Solidarity with Khader Adnan
20 February 2012
Democracy Now today aired a brief video clip of Khader Adnan, who is now in his 65th day of hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial by Israel. Read more about In brief video clip, hunger striker Khader Adnan speaks out from hospital bed
20 February 2012
Bobby Sands died on 5 May 1981, aged 27, after 66 days on hunger strike against British refusal to grant political status to him and other Irish republican prisoners. Today, as Khader Adnan is on his 65th day of hunger strike, the Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, Danny Morrison, called on the Israeli government to immediately release Adnan, who is close to death. Read more about Bobby Sands' spokesman, close friend calls on Israel to immediately release Khader Adnan
20 February 2012
American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr and former Obama administration State Department official Anne-Marie Slaugher are among the latest people to join criticism of Israel’s use of administrative detentions of Palestinians highlighted by the 65 day hunger strike of Khader Adnan as global attention, solidarity grow. Read more about Roseanne Barr and former Obama official join criticism of Israel as Khader Adnan on day 65 of hunger strike
19 February 2012
Violence has always been a useful term for governments and their allied establishment figures in media and punditry. Key to that utility is a very specialized use of the term as a descriptor for actions that don’t originate with the establishment or authorities. Police, armies, presidents and city administrators do not engage in violence. They use strategies, protocols, plans of action, deployments, operations and strikes. The people that are injured and die in those acts are not actively killed by violence. Rather, they suffer only in the passive voice. Read more about Two Kinds of Non-Violence
19 February 2012
Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in solidarity with Khader Adnan are facing harsh punishment by Israeli prison authorities who fear unrest could spread, if Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 64 days, deteriorates further or dies. Read more about Solidarity hunger strikers in Israeli jails face harsh punishment, prisoner says
19 February 2012
Bilin is being used to test new Israeli weapons but the villagers keep protesting. Read more about Memo to New York Times: the spirit of Gandhi is alive in Palestine