Communiqué de la Mission de Palestine en France (en Français et en Arabe)
Paris, le 07/02/2012
en solidarité avec le prisonnier Khader Adnan
La Mission de Palestine en France exprime sa profonde inquiétude suite à la dégradation de l’état de santé du prisonnier palestinien Khader Adnan Mohammad Moussa, qui a entamé une grève totale de la faim depuis 54 jours, et qui s’est fait hospitalisé en urgence dans un hôpital à Safad.
La Mission demande urgemment aux parties concernées et aux autorités compétentes de la République Française, (Gouvernement, parlement, médias et Organisations des droits de l’Homme..) d’intervenir rapidement afin de sauver la vie de ce prisonnier.
Aussi, la Mission de Palestine en France informe toutes les parties concernées que des groupes, composés des citoyens palestiniens et des amis de la cause palestinienne, ont commencés depuis trois jours une grève ouverte de la faim en solidarité avec le prisonnier Khader ADNAN, et parmi eux le militant Tarek SHADID et la militante Sabreen DWEIK, celle-ci vient d’être transférée vers un centre hospitalier, à Ramallah. En dépit du danger réel sur leurs vies, ils refusent catégoriquement l’arrêt de leur grève jusqu’à la libération du prisonnier Khader ADNAN.
La Mission de Palestine en France fait porter toute la responsabilité aux autorités de l’occupation israélienne de la vie du prisonnier Khader ADNAN et ses solidaires. La Mission demande, également, la libération immédiate et sans condition de tous les prisonniers, le prisonnier Khader ADNAN n’a qu’un exemple sur des milliers des prisonniers derrière les geôles de l’occupation et qui résistent par leurs mains menottés et les ventres vides à leurs bourreau.
Gloire et liberté à tous nos braves prisonniers
Communiqué du Front Populaire de libération de la Palestine (en Français et en Anglais)
7 février 2012
La vie de Khader Adnan en péril – la solidarité est nécessaire pour les prisonniers en grève de la faim
La Camarade Khalida Jarrar a appelé toutes les organisations et les militants palestiniens et internationaux à se joindre à une campagne de solidarité avec le prisonnier en grève de la faim Khader Adnan, qui a été en grève de la faim pendant 52 jours et dont la vie est en danger.
Elle a également appelé à un boycott complet de l’occupation à tous les niveaux, officiels et publics et à une action en justice accrue pour tenir l’état d’occupation et ses personnalités officielles responsables de leurs crimes.
Elle a encouragé un boycott palestinien des audiences et processus de détention administrative de la Cour, car ils ne sont rien qu’une imposture pour tenter de légitimer la détention arbitraire, secrète et illégale et ne sont rien de plus qu’une arme de l’occupation. Khader Adnan est maintenu en détention administrative sans accusation depuis le 17 décembre et il a été en grève de la faim depuis ce temps, pour protester contre le système illégal de détention administrative ainsi que la torture et les abus auxquels lui et les autres prisonniers politiques palestiniens sont soumis lors des interrogatoires.
Elle a salué Adnan et ses compagnons prisonniers palestiniens, notant que 10 prisonniers de la prison d’Ofer, dont les 4 camarades du FPLP, avaient été placés en isolement en raison de leur grève de la faim en solidarité soutenant Khader Adnan. Jarrar a exigé la suppression de l’isolement, qui est un mécanisme de torture et de maltraitance, notant qu’il est actuellement utilisé sur une base de longue durée contre des dizaines de prisonniers palestiniens, dont le Secrétaire général du FPLP Ahmad Sa’adat.
Jarrar a appelé les militants internationaux à lancer des manifestations et des actions de solidarité à l’appui de Khader Adnan, attirant l’attention sur sa situation, et elle a salué et a appelé à intensifie les efforts nationaux pour appuyer les manifestations étudiantes, les manifestations de protestation des avocats et les manifestations de protestation des familles des prisonniers en soutien de Adnan en Palestine.
Urgent Appeal : Khader Adnan’s Life at Risk as He Enters Day 52 of Hunger Strike
Ramallah, 7 February 2012 – Addameer expresses its utmost concern about the health of Khader Adnan, who remains steadfast on Day 52 of his hunger strike in protest of being held in administrative detention and refuses treatment until his release. Despite his rapidly deteriorating condition, an Israeli military judge issued a decision today confirming his administrative detention order for a period of four months.
In the court decision, Judge Dalya Kaufman claimed that after hearing the medical assessment of the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) physician, Khader’s medical condition seems “acceptable” and provides no grounds for shortening or canceling the administrative d etention order. This claim was made regardless of the questionable nature of the IPS medical assessment, given that Khader has refused to allow Israeli hospital staff to carry out his medical examinations. The last medical examination that Khader received was over 40 days ago, when Physicians for Human Rights doctors examined him on 29 December 2011. The doctors stated that in the event of organ failure, his condition could become life-threatening.
During the confirmation hearing, the military judge also claimed that she ruled out alternatives to administrative detention due to Khader allegedly “hiding” from Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF), even though he was arrested from his own home. She further contradicted herself when noting that the secret file on which his ad ministrative detention is based contains information that he is a high risk to Israeli security, while also admitting that this same material is not enough to bring actual charges against him. These contradictions reveal the highly arbitrary nature of Khader’s detention in addition to Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law, which permits limited use of administrative detention only in emergency situations, but does not allow for its use as punishment when there is not sufficient evidence for criminal procedures.
On 6 February, Addameer lawyer Samer Sam’an was able to visit Khader in Zif Medical Center in Safad. Mr. Sam’an stated afterwards that Khader continues to refuse ingesting salts and vitamins. He also noted that Khader remains cons cious and aware of his surroundings. Though Khader has categorically refused to allow any medical examinations by Israeli hospital staff, Israeli authorities continue to transfer him between multiple hospitals in Israel, which has made visits from his lawyers increasingly difficult.
Immediately after being arrested on 17 December 2011, Khader began his hunger strike in protest of Israel’s consistent violations of human rights, including its policy of arbitrary detention, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment during and following his arrest and the violation of his right to be promptly informed of the charges against him. As punishment for his hunger strike, the IOF placed Khader in solitary confinement after his fourth day under interrogation and stated that they would ban him from family visits for the following three months. With no other means to protest these injustices, Khader responded by saying, “My dignity is more precious than food.” On 8 January 2012, Khader was issued a four-month administrative detention order. After being postponed several times, a court hearing took place on 1 February, during which Khader described the ill-treatment he experienced at the hands of the IOF.
A group of Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike in support of Khader on 2 February. Currently there are prisoners on hunger strike in Ofer, Megiddo and Ramon prisons. Khader is now the longest Palestinian hunger striker in history. He is one of 310 administrative detainees held in Israeli prisons and the third case in Addameer’s Prisoners at Risk campaign.
Addameer holds the Occupation accountable for Khader’s deteriorating health and urges the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to put immediate pressure on Israeli to abide by international humanitarian and human rights law in regards to arrest and detention of Palestinians. Addameer further appeals to the International Committee of the Red Cross to play its role in bringing attention to the multitude of violations committed by Israeli authorities. If Khader remains in administrative detention, it is surely a major threat to his life ; to ensure his release, local and international coalitions must work rapidly to build a movement in his support
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
P. O. Box : 17338, Jerusalem
Tel :+972 (0)2 296 0446 / 297 0136
Fax : +972 (0)2 296 0447
Email : info@addameer.ps
Website : www.addameer.org