Week 11: Salim Kayal – Palestinian political prisoner
In Israeli prisons there are men and women who have not only been deprived of their freedom but also the most basic human rights. Some maintain their hope of...
June 6, 2011
In Israeli prisons there are men and women who have not only been deprived of their freedom but also the most basic human rights. Some maintain their hope of...
May 31, 2011
Maher Younis was born on 6th January 1958. He grew up in a modest family that believed in the justice of the Palestinian cause. He received his primary education...
May 23, 2011
The fateful night of 6th January 1983, when Israeli soldiers raided their house in a brutal way, was the first that his relatives knew that Karim Younis was in...
May 16, 2011
Sami Younis is now in his eightieth year and has been in prison for 27 years. He is the doyen of Palestinian prisoners from inside Israel itself, having spent...
May 10, 2011
It is clear that a co-ordinated campaign has been launched to try to get Amnesty International to withdraw the use of its premises for an event to be hosted...
May 9, 2011
There are people in prisons who resisted the Israeli occupation of their land and paid with their freedom and youth. Such people grew up in prison teaching other prisoners...
May 5, 2011
The PSC and MEMO meeting on media bias, taking place on 23 May as an external event in Amnesty’s building in London, has come under fire by pro-Israeli Government...
May 3, 2011
Hassan Salmah has spent many long years in Israeli jails, and his tale is like all too many others; suffering and grief are at the core. He has experienced...
April 25, 2011
Ibrahim Jaber’s modesty made everyone respect him. People loved his courage and willpower and he was passionate about secrecy when necessary. He worked hard to make a living and...
April 20, 2011
A largely neglected instrument of legal Israeli repression used against the Palestinian people is that of administrative detention. Thousands of men as well as women and children are held...