NOVANEWS
Samer Issawi, 33, has been detained without charge for more than seven months by Israeli authorities. He was released from prison in October 2011 as a part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap and detained again without charge on July 7, 2012. Issawi has been on hunger strike since August 2012 to protest his detention. He is now in critical condition: losing his vision, vomiting blood and lapsing in and out of consciousness.
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GLOBAL CALL IN DAY TO FREE SAMER ISSAWI!
- Call President Barack Obama at 1-202-456-1111
- Call U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at 1-202-647-4000 or the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at 1-202-647-7209
- Join the Twitter campaign at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST/9 PM Palestine Time to demand the release of Samer Issawi. Follow @samerissawi1 for the hashtag to use.
- For updates on the worldwide campaign, follow “The Free Samer Issawi Campaign” on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Free-Samer-Issawi-Campaign/194111744067340>.
For more information see:
- Al Awda’s Action alert: <http://www.al-awda.org/alert-samerissawi.html>;
- Alison Weir’s article “AP and Amnesty International: Are you just waiting for him to die?” published inCounterPunch and TruthOut in February 2013: http://ifamericansknew.org/media/issawi.html;
- Letters from The League of Arab States to the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
- Delinda Hanley’s article “International Conference Demands Freedom for Prisoners of War Held by Israel,” published in the March 2013 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs p. 16-17.