woensdag 20 juni 2012

Sarsak will soon be free - what about the other 'administrative detainees'?



Dutch filmmaker Abdekarim El-Fassi made this short video-film concerning  the Palestinian football player Mahmoud Sarsak's hungerstrike when it was 90 days old. Starring are, among others, former prime minister Dries van Agt, and the members of parliament Harry van Bommel (Socialistische Partij) and Tofik Dibi (GroenLinks).
That the film is released after Sarsak ended his strike after he obtained a deal wherewby Israel will release him on 10 July, does not make that much of a difference, according to El-Fassi. Some others, like Akram, Rikhawi,  are stille continuing their strike, and the unlawfuil practice of detention without a proper trial has not ended. El-Fassi:  
Even though 25-year old Mahmoud Al Sarsak, university student and member of the Palestinian National Football team, has ended his hunger strike,his impressive protest through the refusal of food has played an important role in exposing the practice of detention of Palestinian civilians without proper trial or charges. Thousands of Palestinian political prisoners this year have waged hunger strikes against their ordeal of unwarranted imprisonment, some of them making headlines worldwide, most notably Khader Adnan and Hana el Shalabi.
Despite their actions having drawn the attention of media and governments all over the world, no effective action has been taken at a political level to address and end the wanton practice by the Israeli regime of detaining Palestinian civilians arbitrarily, often without official charges or due process.
More on the site http://www.sarsak90.org/ 

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