BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:310@palestinecampaign.org DTSTART:20130417T180000Z DTEND:20130417T193000Z DTSTAMP:20130415T143320Z URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/vigil-support-the-palestinian-pri soners-on-hunger-strike/ SUMMARY:Birmingham Vigil: Support the Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strik e! DESCRIPTION:https://www.facebook.com/events/424069127686004/\n\n\n\n\nLocal Palestine activists are calling for a solidarity demonstration in Birming ham to express support for the historic struggle taking place inside Israe li jails.Palestinian political prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails hav e embarked on a historic hunger strike to demand fair treatment and an end to administrative detention by the Israeli authorities.\nIsrael uses this policy to detain Palestinians without charge of trial\, which has been de scribed as “a violation of the principles and standards of due process a nd fair trial practiced in all democracies. This is what you teach young l awyers. Israel ignores this. It brings administrative detention orders to a military court that follow military law. The evidence is secret. The cou rt rubber-stamps the order. It is arbitrary detention” says Shawan Jabar in\, recently-appointed commissioner to the International Commission of Ju rists.\n\nA Palestinian rights organization profiled Sunday eight politica l prisoners from the occupied West Bank currently on hunger strike.\n\nSix of the hunger strikers are protesting Israeli administrative detention or ders against them. Prisoner support group Addameer provided information ab out the hunger strikers in a 10 March statement.\n\nSamer al-Barq\, 38 yea rs old\, from the town of Jayyous near Qalqilia started an open hunger str ike on 27 February to protest the 24 February renewal of a three-month adm inistrative detention order. This is al-Barq’s third hunger strike in th e past two years.\n\nAyman Sharawna\, 36 years old\, from Dura\, near Hebr on had been released in the October 2011 prisoner exchange deal. Sharawna started his hunger strike on 1 July 2012 to protest being rearrested by Is rael under Article 186 of Military Order 1651\, which allows a special mil itary commission to “cancel the early release.”\n\nSamer al-Issawi\, 3 3 years old\, from Issawiya\, Jerusalem was also released as part of the O ctober 2011 prisoner exchange deal. Following his rearrest on 7 July 2012\ , Issawi has been on intermittent hunger strike for over 200 days to prote st his arbitrary rearrest.\n\nYounis al-Hroub\, 31 years old\, from Hebron has been on hunger strike for 22 days to protest his administrative deten tion.\nMuhammad Ahmad an-Najjar from Hebron has been on hunger strike for 152 days which he announced on 26 February to protest his administrative d etention.\n\nZakariyah al-Heeh\, 26 years old\, from Hebron has been detai ned since 26 November 2012. He has been on hunger strike for 14 days.\n\nI brahim Al-Sheikh Khalil from Jericho has been on hunger strike for 12 days since he announced his strike on 27 February 2013 to protest his administ rative detention. He is currently in Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank .\n\nHazem Al-Tawil from Al-Khalil was detained on 19 February 2013 and we nt on hunger strike the following day to protest his administrative detent ion. He is on hunger strike for 19 days and is held in Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank.\n\nWe will gather to call for solidarity with those hu nger-striking inside Israeli prisons\, and to support the call for Palesti nian rights that these prisoners are bravely fighting for\, against the ra cist Israeli colonisation of their land and people.\n\nFor more informatio n on the situation with the hunger strike and Palestinian rights\, please visit www.addameer.org\n\nJoin us there\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Priority LOCATION:New Street\, B2 4DB\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, United Kingdom GEO:52.4789299;-1.8983475999999655 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS= B2 4DB\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=New Street:geo:52.47 89299,-1.8983475999999655 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR