Wednesday 27 June 2012

Here is a link to the Children in Military Custody report June 2012 a report written by a delegation of British lawyers which is being highlighted at the moment on C4 news and in the Guardian and Independent newspapers
http://www.childreninmilitarycustody.org/

Palestinian child prisoners

http://bcove.me/4ivu9y8u

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Petition about Susiya

Dear friends in Knighton,

I was very pleased to hear from Ibrahem, Mohammed's brother, that he is out of prison - though many others are still in there of course.

Here is a petition about Susiya - Please do read and sign it and share it if you will.

Meeting on June 25th

We had a good meeting and decided to clarify the different contact lists, so that communication - hopefully - will be clearer and more direct.
We are going to arrange a showing of the film 'Budrus' in September, and put on an exhibition at Knighton Library next February.
We are identifying the key people or organisations to contact about the human rights abuses in Azzoun, especially the incarceration of the children, and making a list of the MPs, Welsh Assembly members, EMPs and others to contact so that the UK and Europe will keep up the pressure on  Israel and adhere to the boycott. As we know, the UK is still trading with Israel, especially for 'security' advice.

Saturday 16 June 2012

URGENT Child prisoners from Azzoun on hunger strike

It has been the year of hunger strikes by Palestinians in Israeli prisons - Prisoners protesting against their treatment in jail or against lack of trial. But this now is the FIRST TIME (as far as we know) to have 20 juveniles - ie all under 18 - going on strike in prison - and friends in Azzoun tell us that 75% of them are from Azzoun.

What is going on with child prisoners is horrendous - and Azzoun has had it bad this year with dozens of young people newly arrested and put in prison.

Today I have been in touch with Ibrahem from Azzoun whose brother Mohammed is one of the young people in prison. He says how worried they are about him (but how proud). He says that with his brother there is a 17-year-old from Azzoun in prison who has been given a sentence of 16 years.

He says the reason the young people have gone on strike is in protest against beatings and bad treatment and demanding an end to solitary confinement.

And that arrests of young people in Azzoun are still going on.

Please, Knighton people, think of ways of raising this urgently with ordinary people and policy makers.