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Date Posted: Thu, Jun 18 2009, 16:55:19 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA: Solidarity with Hunger Striker Ahmad Sa'adat

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

18 June 2009
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

Solidarity with Hunger Striker Ahmad Sa'adat

On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, the Irish
Republican Socialist Committees of North America send solidarity
greetings to Ahmad Sa'adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who is now on the
second week of a hunger strike in protest of the Israel Prison
Service's policies of abuse and isolation of Palestinian political
prisoners guilty of nothing more than legitimate resistance to a
brutal occupation.

Around 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners are incarcerated in
Zionist prisons, and since the Zionist military's criminal assaults
in Gaza late last year and early this year, the prisoners have come
under increased mistreatment. The attacks on the rights of
Palestinian prisoners include the imposition of fines, prevention of
rest periods, denial of family visits, confiscation of prisoners'
belongings, denial of household items, and the regular use of
solitary confinement and isolation cells, particularly against those
identified as leaders.

Since 18 March, Comrade Sa'adat has been held in solitary confinement
in Shikma Prison in Ashkelon (Asqalan), leading to a worsening of
existing health issues. He suffers from back problems that require
treatment by a specialist, but the Zionist authorities refuse to
allow him to see such a specialist. We call on the Zionist prison
authorities to immediately release Comrade Sa'adat from solitary
confinement and provide the medical treatment that he requires.

Further, we call for an immediate end to the abuse and isolation of
all Palestinian political prisoners, and demand that the Zionist
government release Sa'adat and all other political prisoners. The
occupiers have no right to judge or imprison men and women moved by
their conscience to fight against the occupation and for a
Palestinian state.

The IRSM--comprised principally in Ireland of the Irish Republican
Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army, and
represented in North America by the IRSCNA--know all too well about
how an occupying power criminalizes those who oppose it, and three of
our INLA comrades died on hunger strike in 1981, along with seven
members of the Irish Republican Army, protesting the denial of their
rights as prisoners of war by the British state.

Thus, we give our full support to the struggle for Palestinian
national liberation and the struggle within Zionist prisons by
Palestinian political prisoners, and we lend our strength to Comrade
Sa'adat in his time of need on hunger strike.

Freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian prisoners now!

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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 901479
Kansas City MO 64190-1479
USA
irscna@irsm.org
http://www.irscna.org/
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html

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