Israel's Palestinian Prisoners, America's Other Guantanamo: Report on Political Prisoners

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Israel's Palestinian Prisoners, America's Other Guantanamo: A Report on the Conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners

Addameer

Featuring, directly from Ramallah in Occupied Palestine, human rights activist Ala Jaradat of Addameer--Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association

WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Center Rm 296
                   1825 SW Broadway Portland OR 97201

WHEN: Friday, November 20th, 2009, at 7:00 PM

The $3 billion dollars of annual U.S. aid to Israel helps fund Israeli prisons and detention centers where 8,100 Palestinian prisoners — including 60 women, 390 children, and 550 administrative detainees held without charge — are imprisoned in substandard conditions and subject to torture.

As part of a national tour organized by the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and

the Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG)-Chicago,

in local partnership with Al-AWDA Oregon and the Al-Nakba Awareness Project,

 

Human rights activist Ala Jaradat, the program manager of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners rights organization in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, and a former Palestinian political prisoner, will be sharing his experiences campaigning against political prosecution, for the rights of political detainees, actively working against the use of torture, arbitrary detention, the use of isolation, and other forms of political repression.

Other cities on the tour included Chicago; Milwaukee; San Francisco; Youngstown, OH; College Park, MD; Washington, DC; New York; Columbus, OH; Portland, OR; and Philadelphia.  For more information, email info@psgchicago. org.
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