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Monday, February 18, 2013

DAY 208: FREE SAMER ISSAWI NOW!


Posted by Zahi Damuni (cause leader)

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For Immediate Release
February 16, 2013

DAY 208:  FREE SAMER ISSAWI NOW!

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition and the Free Samer Issawi Campaign call on all people of conscience to take immediate action to help save the life of Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi who has been on a hunger strike for 208 days.
Issawi has been detained by Israeli authorities without any charge whatsoever.  He was detained again without charge on 7 July 2012 and has been refusing food since August 2012 in protest. He is in critical condition.
There are currently 178 Palestinian administrative detainees being held without any charge whatsoever. In addition to Issawi, Jafar Izzeddin, Ayman Sharawneh and Tariq Qadan are also on hunger strike to protest prison conditions and administrative detention.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Please join the voices and support around the world to save Samer Issawi's life and demand his immediate release from prison!
Write to President Obama and voice your concern and demand that the US administration intervene to demand the immediate release of Samer Issawi, the other hungers strikers, and all the administrative detainees and Palestinian political prisoners including the children. You can use the online form at:
http://links.causes.com/s/clISXb?r=F2jB
Also please Call US Secretary of State John Kerry at 1-202-647-4000 or Office of Near East Affairs at 1-202-647-7209 Demand that the Secretary intervene for the immediate release of Samer Issawi, the other hungers strikers, all Palestinian administrative detainees and political prisoners including the children.
Help spread awareness through social media, and forward to all your contacts after you take action!
The Free Samer Issawi Campaign
http://links.causes.com/s/clISXd?r=F2jB

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax: 760-918-9442
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://links.causes.com/s/clISXh?r=F2jB

Samer Issawi: No going back, I am owner of Right

Samer's father and sister, Tariq and Shireen, holding a photo of Samer in the family's home in East Jerusalem's Issawiya (Photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler)

Posted by Zahi Damuni (cause leader)
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Letter from prisoner Samer al-Issawi as it came from the Ministry of Prisoners:
I turn with admiration to the masses of our heroic Palestinian people, to our Palestinian leadership, to all forces, parties and national institutions. I salute them for standing by our fight to defend our right to freedom and dignity.
I draw my strength from my people, from all the free people in the world, from friends and the families of the prisoners who continue day and night chanting for freedom and an end to the occupation.
My health has deteriorated dramatically and I'm hanging between life and death. My weak body is collapsing but still able to be patient and continue the confrontation. My message is that I will continue until the end, until the last drop of water in my body, until martyrdom. Martyrdom is an honor for me in this battle. My martyrdom is my remaining bomb in the confrontation with the tyrants and the jailers, in the face of the racist policy of the occupation that humiliates our people and exercises against us all means of oppression and repression.
I say to my people: I'm stronger than the occupation army and its racist laws. I, Samer al-Issawi, son of Jerusalem, send you my last will that, in case I fell as a martyr, you will carry my soul as a cry for all the prisoners, man and women, cry for freedom, emancipation and salvation from the nightmare of prisons and their harsh darkness.
My battle is not only for individual freedom. The battle waged by me and by my heroic colleagues, Tariq, Ayman and Ja'affar, is everyone's battle, the battle of the Palestinian people against the occupation and its prisons. Our goal is to be free and sovereign in our liberated state and in our blessed Jerusalem. 
The weak and strained beats of my heart derive their steadfastness from you, the great people. My eyes, which started to lose their sight, draws light from your solidarity and your support of me. My weak voice takes its strength from your voice that is louder than the warden's voice and higher than the walls.
I'm one of your sons, among thousands of your sons who are prisoners, still languishing steadfastly in the prisons, waiting for an end to be brought to their plight, their pains and the suffering of their families.
The doctors told me I became exposed to stroke because of the disorder of my heartbeats, the shortage of sugar and the drop in blood pressure. My body is full of cold and I can't sleep because of the continued pain. But despite the extreme fatigue and chronic headaches, as I move on my chair, I'm trying to summon all my resources to continue on the road till its end. There is no going back, only in my victory, because I'm the owner of Right and my detention is invalid and illegal.
Do not be afraid for my heart if it will stop, don't be afraid for my hands if they will be paralyzed. I am still alive now and tomorrow and after death, because Jerusalem is moving in my blood, in my devotion and my faith.
Palestine 16/02/2013
The above letter (in Arabic) was published on 16 February on Shirin Issawi's Page in Facebook. Translated to English and Hebrew by Free Haifa
Please share it and act everywhere to save Samer Issawi and for all the people that were imprisoned for their struggle for freedom.