AMP calls on State Department to defend tradition of due process and human rights
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(CHICAGO 05/09/2011) – A national grassroots organization, whose mission is to educate Americans about Palestine’s rich cultural and historical heritage, today is calling on the U.S. Department of State to intervene on behalf of 2,500 Palestinian political prisoners, who are engaged in a lengthy hunger strike to protest their inhumane and illegal incarceration as well as Israel’s illegal use of administrative detention.
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There are approximately 4,600 Palestinian political prisoners inside Israeli jails. Palestinians, living under occupation and oppression for nearly 64 years, have been targeted for mass imprisonment and detention by the Israeli occupation. Nearly every Palestinian family has been touched by political imprisonment - a father, mother, son, daughter, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, and aunt. Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians from those areas have been held as political prisoners - one out of every four Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza.
What is the situation with Palestinian political prisoners and why are they staging this massive hunger strike? Below is a list of some of the deplorable conditions prisoners are subjected to, in direct contravention of international law.
