Today morning, at around 10:30 Palestine time, Shireen Issawi, Samer’s sister, posted on her Facebook page that she was stopped by Israeli forces. Her car was jammed by two Israeli jeeps, and thoroughly searched. Shortly afterwards, news was being tweeted of her arrest.
Contrary to rumors circulating widely on the internet through Twitter and Facebook, Samer Issawi will NOT be released on March 6. This was confirmed by a telephone call between Abbas Hamideh of the Free Samer Issawi campaign and Samer’s sister Shireen. It is true that the Israeli Magistrates Court in Jerusalem today sentenced Samer al Issawi for 8 months...
Abby Martin, anchor for news network Russia Today America, surprised both friend and foe on February 15 with a fierce call for the freedom of Samer Issawi, Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike in protest against his illegal incarceration by the Israeli occupation forces. This is the first time that an anchor of an English speaking news network breaks...
Samer Issawi, the Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli incarceration who is on the longest continuous hunger strike recorded so far, has today entered his 203rd day of refusing food. This morning, his laywer Fawaz el Shaloudy spoke to him, and Samer said: “I swear that I will continue this strike, either to victory or martyrdom. I am almost at the...
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