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Palestine: Calls for release of many remaining prisoners
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:08 am | UFree
The exchange in which the Israeli government will free 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in return for soldier Gilad Shalit is welcome news, but work must continue unabated to end the suffering of the 5,000-plus individuals who remain in jail, says UFree, ... More >>
Campaign to support Hunger Strike of Palestinian Prisoners
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:08 am | UFree
As Israeli military measures are escalating against Palestinian prisoners, moves are taking place in prisoners to resist the illegal Israel practices. A hunger strike has been staged across Israeli prisons which illegally keep thousands of Palestinian ... More >>
UFree Alert: Support Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike!
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 5:19 pm | UFree
Palestinians detained in Israeli occupation jails have announced their intent to begin an open-ended hunger strike to demand an end to the ever increasing humiliating and degrading treatment at the hands of Israel's prisons services (IPS), starting ... More >>
Israel: Journalist released after 49 days without charge
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 5:11 pm | UFree
UFree has called for the prosecution of Israeli officials for illegally holding Al Jazeera journalist Samer Allawi for seven weeks without charge. Mohammed Hamdan, the chair of the European wide network for Prisoners rights said: 'The release of ... More >>
Samir Allawi released after 49 days of illegal dentention
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:48 am | UFree
Monday afternoon, Israeli military court decided to release Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Afghanistan, journalist Samir Allawi, after 49 days in illegal detention and interrogation. More >>
Israeli detention of Al Jazeera journalist
Sunday, 11 September 2011, 1:44 pm | UFree
Prisoner support network calls on European parliamentarians and human rights groups to protest Israeli detention of Al Jazeera journalist Oslo, Norway – Sept.10, 2011 – Lawmakers and human rights advocates must intervene to free Samer Allawi, a Palestinian ... More >>
Unlawful imprisonment of Palestinian journalist Samer Allawi
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 10:31 am | UFree
We write to bring your attention to the imprisonment of a Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist, Samer Allawi, held without charge by the Israeli authorities. We believe that his arrest has serious implications for free speech and media reporting in the ... More >>
UFree demand an immediate release of Samer Allwai
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 12:50 pm | UFree
UFree calls on the Israeli occupation to immediately release a Palestinian journalist Samer Allawi (46 years), who is a reporter for Al Jazeera TV channel and was arrested early this month as he was leaving home town in the West Bank. More >>
‘Unlawful Combatants’: Excuse for Indefinite Detention
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 12:25 pm | UFree
The right to liberty is one of the pillars of human rights. International law –most significantly, the Geneva Conventions and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – state unequivocally that imprisonment without opportunity for appeal is ... More >>
Prisoners’ Rights Group Calls on UN to Stop Mass Arrests
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 9:20 am | UFree
Prisoners’ Rights Group Calls on UN to Stop Israeli Mass Arrests in West Bank. The United Nations and all other human rights supporters must speak out against Israel’s campaign of mass arrests now being waged in the West Bank, says UFree, the European ... More >>
West Bank: Bushra Altaweel arrest, a 17 year-old teenager
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 1:43 pm | UFree
Bushra Altaweel, a 17 year-old teenager was arrested on July 6th 2011, during a dawn raid at her home in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah. No explanation was given for her arrest, and more than a month later she has not been charged without any crime. More >>
Kefah Qotosh finally freed
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 4:13 pm | UFree
A number of Palestinian prisoners were yesterday released – long after they had served their sentence. More >>
Palestinian female prisoner, Nelly Safadi, released
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 9:58 pm | UFree
Israeli authorities have finally released Nelly Safadi, a 35 year old female prisoner from Nablus, twenty two months after her first arrest at an Israeli checkpoint between Nablus and Ramallah. More >>
