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Death Penalty Order Against 529 individuals Represent a Ruling Against Egyptian Judiciary as Well?

ANHRI – The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned about the Minya Felony Court’s decision yesterday, Monday, March 4, to refer the cases of 529 defendants sentenced to death to the state grand mufti for his opinion. The defendants were sentenced in connection with the violence in Matay, Minya, following the dispersal of the two sit-ins held by supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda Squares. The decision, and the court’s readiness to sentence such a large number of people to death in abbreviated trials, constitutes a dangerous, unprecedented shift in the Egyptian judiciary’s treatment of such cases and represents a grave violation of both the right to a fair trial and the right to life.

The court issued this decision less than a week after the start of the trial of the defendants, who were charged in connection with violence that led to the death of Col. Mustafa Ragab, the deputy chief of the Matay police station, the attempted murder of other police officers, the theft of weapons from the police station, the destruction of public and private property, and the torching of several private cars.

The ruling was issued following only two sessions of the trial and in the absence of the defendants and their lawyers. The first session lasted only 30 minutes, as counsel for the defendants moved for the recusal of the judges hearing the case. Witnesses were not called, evidence was not presented in court, and the accused were unable to defend themselves.

The undersigned organizations note that group trials such as the case of the 529 defendants  represent a grave violation of the right to a fair trial and of other principles, most prominently the principle of individualized punishment, which is enshrined in the Egyptian constitution, including in the most recent constitutional amendments approved through a public referendum, as well as international rights conventions ratified by Egypt.

The undersigned organizations are especially concerned by this expansive use of the death penalty in light of the increasingly repressive measures taken against political dissidents of various affiliations and the proposed counterterrorism legislation that grows more authoritarian by the day. The government recently approved two counterterrorism draft laws with several dangerous provisions that lack proper legal safeguards. The draft laws make it possible to impose the death penalty for an extensive list of actions and grant broad powers to security personnel and the Public Prosecution in matters of investigation and interrogation.

We ask that all defendants be granted guarantees for a fair trial, including, first and foremost, the right to defense and to an attorney and the right to be charged with a specific offense backed by evidence, as well as adequate time to prepare a defense and response.

SIGNATORY ORGANIZATIONS:

• 1.       Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
• 2.       Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
• 3.       Hesham Mubarak Law Center
• 4.       Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement
• 5.       Egyptian Center for Women Rights
• 6.      Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
• 7.      Arab Penal Reform Organization
• 8.       New Woman Foundation
• 9.       Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies
• 10.   Nazra for Feminist Studies
• 11.   Arab Network for Human Rights Information
• 12.   Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression
• 13.   Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination
• 14.   Egyptian foundation for Advancement of the Childhood Conditions
• 15.  Land Center for Human Rights
• 16. The Human Rights Association for the Assistance of the Prisoners

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Honor Killings Increased in Palestine

In two separate incidents last week under unclear circumstances young women were killed in the Gaza Strip. The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns the crimes and calls on the concerned authorities to launch investigations and bring perpetrators to justice.

On Thursday, 20 February, 2014, S.N.M., 18, was killed at approximately 1:30 pm. A report of the death was given to the police by a relative of the victim. Two days after S.N.M. was buried, the Public Prospector’s office issued an order for the body to be dig up to undergo forensic examination.

According to the forensic physician on the case, the girl had been subjected to severe beating in the days before her death. The beating included blows to the head, which she appeared to have died from.

Also on Thursday of last week, medical sources in Khan Younis relayed the death of A. S., 17, who died after being stabbed in her home in Bani Suhaila in the east of Khan Younis. A. S., appeared to have died after being stabbed in the neck by her brother. 
Al Mezan expresses its regret at the killing of the two girls and condemns acts that appear to be killings of women to preserve “family honor”.

Al Mezan calls on the Public Prosecution to take the effective procedures to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice. Al Mezan asserts that the leniency with which the authorities treat the perpetrators of such crimes—who usually allege that they were acting to preserve “family honor”— has contributed to a noticeable increase in what is known as “honor killings”. Since the beginning of 2013 until now, seven women were killed in similar incidents.

Al Mezan calls on the authorities to treat such killings of women as murder and not to look beyond that for extenuating circumstances outside of the law.

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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 | Posted by Robert O'Dowd

Murder, Cocaine and Environmental Contamination in the Marine Corps

True story of U.S. Marines who were exposed to carcinogens, injured, and continue for fight for health care and compensation written by two Marine veterans.

(IRVINE, CA and JACKSONVILLE, NC)  – The connection is not a square peg in a square hole, but its damn close. Marine Corps leadership were involved in murder, crime scene cover-up, narcotrafficking (cocaine, the drug of choice), the shredding of records, and the denial of injuries from exposure to deadly contaminants at both El Toro and Camp Lejeune.

You don’t have to believe in conspiracies to understand the threat to freedom of a small but powerful group of people in and outside of government subverting the Constitution, effectively executing a coup d’état. Not in the United States, this is a free country, you must be paranoid, we’re the good guys, you say.It is not hyperbole to say that thousands of Americans have fought and died for the right to remain free. Life was too often short for those who served and died to preserve our freedom to ignore the threats of a ‘shadow government.’

Marine Colonel Jim Sabow placed his television on mute, arose from his easy chair, and left his house on Fifth Street at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro through the patio door.  He walked the length of the patio, called the dogs, which were in the back yard and enclosed them in the garage. This was a practice he routinely followed when visitors were expected.  Whether he opened the front door to greet his visitors or went out the back door onto his patio is not known, but we do know that he had only moments to live.

Colonel Sabow, decorated Vietnam fighter with 221 combat missions, met his death at the hands of others.  The unexpected blow to the right side of the head was violent, resulting in unconsciousness.  Occipital skull fragments penetrated into the back of his brain. He was near death due to the massive brainstem trauma in which agonal hyperventilation characteristic of this type of injury occurs. Sabow was aspirating blood from a wound in his pharynx that resulted from a basilar skull fracture. In fact, the tracheae, bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli were filled with blood, doubling the weight of the right lung.  His shotgun was found under his body.  No fingerprints on the shotgun.  No suicide note. There was no mention of the tramline bruise, an indicator of the violent blow to his head, in the autopsy report or the crime scene tampering by three men who flashed government credentials, forcing Naval Investigative Service (NIS) agents to leave the crime scene.

The motive for the murder was to prevent the disclosure of a covert operation to ferry weapons to Central and South America and government sanctioned narcotrafficing on flights into El Toro.  Data processing records were purged on the maintenance of unmarked C-130s; a Marine with knowledge to purge the records unexpectedly promoted, transferred and murdered several years later.  Other Marines who knew of the illegal drugs would meet violent deaths.

In 1985, the same year that trichloroethylene (TCE) was found in several agricultural wells off of El Toro, Camp Lejeune on the East Coast was forced to close down wells contaminated with TCE, PCE benzene, and other toxic chemicals.  As many as 750,000 veterans and their dependents were exposed to Lejeune’s contaminated wells over 30 years (1953-1987).

Congressional hearings and the testimonies of Lejeune veterans and dependents pressured Congress to pass health care for 15 medical conditions but without any provision for VA disability compensation.  Like their El Toro brothers, Lejeune Marines are forced to file disability claims with the VA.  VA claims must be supported by medical nexus opinions, linking the current medical condition to the base well water.  Medical doctors unfamiliar with epidemiology and not the trusting government are naturally hesitant of writing nexus opinions.  The fastest way to a VA denial is to file a disability claim without a medical nexus opinion.  The denial rate of Lejeune VA disability claims is over 84%. Lejeune Marine veterans now sick with cancers and unemployed are left to their own resources to pay the mortgage and put food on the table.

At El Toro, once the premier Marine Corps Air Station, no determination could be made by the government on the impact of toxic chemicals and their health effects.  Too much documentation was missing, but the evidence of toxic exposure was everywhere. You didn’t have to look too hard for it.

At El Toro, fifty-five gallon drums of trichloroethylene (TCE) waste were buried on the base for years to hid them from the Marine Corps Inspector General, base wells sealed in concrete without a well screen inspection; all original well construction drawing are missing; over 40 years of water distribution engineering drawings are missing; the entire set of water distribution drawings redrawn in 1986, the year after TCE was found in agricultural wells downgradient and during the period when Camp Lejeune’s wells were found contaminated with TCE; an El Toro Marine dead from Agent Orange exposure who never served in Vietnam; the dead Marine transported empty 55 gallon drums to the base’s landfills; other Marines  reported they used Agent Orange to spray the fence line to kill vegetation growth; a 200,000 square foot hangar, the former site of a Radium 226 paint room,  shuttered and sealed in 2012 while the State of California required the Navy to redo a radiation survey; the waste water pipes under the former Ra 226 paint room were cut; the half-life of Ra 226 is 1,601 years so if the sewer lines are contaminated with radiation, the cost of digging up the lies and disposal at a hazardous waste site could easily run into hundreds of millions; despite denials by the Navy and EPA, the initial purchase of softened municipal water in 1951 was not enough water to meet the demand for water for both El Toro and the nearby Santa Ana Air Facility, but enough to blend with the hardened well water to reduce corrosion in the El Toro’s water distribution system; subsequent to the purchase, several engineering drawings show the base wells (in the direct path of the TCE plume) as part of El Toro’s water distribution system; none of the wells were marked as abandoned; El Toro’s hand written pumping records stop as of December 1950, over six months before any municipal water was purchased; El Toro denied ownership of the TCE plume spreading into Orange County’s aquifer until a lawsuit forced them to accept responsibility for remediation; after closure in 1999, nearly 1,000 acres of the base were transferred to the FAA who subsequently transferred the acreage to the FBI with the promise of a wildlife corridor vanishing in the wind; ammunition bunkers were located in the transferred acreage in the base’s panhandle. Was this the site where Dr. Chuck Bennett found weapons grade U-238?

The facts are that Marine veterans, dependents, and civilian workers were exposed to toxic chemicals at both Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and Camp Lejeune.  The routes of exposure through ingestion in the water wells are clearly documented at Camp Lejeune and hidden in a fog of missing documentation at El Toro, but nevertheless present. Marines at both bases worked with TCE and other toxic chemicals without protective clothing and face masks. Many have died without ‘connecting the dots’ to military service.  Semper Fidelis, the Marine Corps’ motto, was seriously tarnished by the Corps’ refusal to support Marine veterans and their dependents exposed to toxic chemicals; many of them sick with deadly cancers, including over 80 Lejeune male Marines with male breast cancer.  The murder of Colonel Sabow at El Toro involves a cover-up that continues to this day, including an NCIS cold case investigation bungled in 2010 and a ‘doctored autopsy’ photo made to hide the huge swelling on the right side of Colonel Sabow’s head and upper neck from the force of a violent external blow to the head.

BETRAYAL:  Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up is the true story of U.S. Marines who were exposed to carcinogens, injured, and continue for fight for health care and compensation. The non-fiction account is now eBook on Amazon’s Kindle on Amazon’s Kindle.

BETRAYAL, written by two former El Toro Marines, Robert O’Dowd and Tim King, photo/journalist, war correspondent, and Executive News Editor of Salem-News.com.  O’Dowd, a retired Defense Department financial manager, honed his investigative skills as an auditor for EPA Inspector General; King, a Los Angeles native, spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, while he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. King holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991).  King has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon.

As part of the effort to self-publish and market a soft cover copy of BETRAYAL (over 500 pages), O’Dowd and King launched a fund raising effort this month on Amazon’s Kickstarter.  Donations as little as $1 can help raise the necessary funds to print an initial 500 copies of the book and fund the costs of marketing. The plan is to publish a print on demand book with Create Space.

Look for the video on BETRAYAL at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723278964/betrayal-toxic-exposure-of-us-marines-murder-and-c.

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Cairo massacre: After today, what Muslim will ever trust the ballot box again?

روبرت فيسك: بعد مجزرة القاهرة الإسلاميون لن يثقوا بصناديق الاقتراع مرة أخرى

Robert Fisk – Independent - Wednesday 14 August 2013 -  This marks a tragic turning point, from which it will take Egypt years to recover  – The Egyptian crucible has broken. The “unity” of Egypt – that all-embracing, patriotic, essential glue that has bound the nation together since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952 and the rule of Nasser – has melted amid the massacres, gun battles and fury of yesterday’s suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood. A hundred dead – 200, 300 “martyrs” – makes no difference to the outcome: for millions of Egyptians, the path of democracy has been torn up amid live fire and brutality. What Muslim seeking a state based on his or her religion will ever trust the ballot box again?

This is the real story of today’s bloodbath. Who can be surprised that some Muslim Brotherhood supporters were wielding Kalashnikovs on the streets of Cairo? Or that supporters of the army and its “interim government” – in middle-class areas of the capital, no less – have seized their weapons or produced their own and started shooting back. This is not Brotherhood vs army, though that is how our Western statesmen will mendaciously try to portray this tragedy. Today’s violence has created a cruel division within Egyptian society that will take years to heal; between leftists and secularists and Christian Copts and Sunni Muslim villagers, between people and police, between Brotherhood and army. That is why Mohamed el-Baradei resigned tonight. The burning of churches was an inevitable corollary of this terrible business.

In Algeria in 1992, in Cairo in 2013 – and who knows what happens in Tunisia in the coming weeks and months? – Muslims who won power, fairly and democratically through the common vote, have been hurled from power. And who can forget our vicious siege of Gaza when Palestinians voted – again democratically – for Hamas? No matter how many mistakes the Brotherhood made in Egypt – no matter how promiscuous or fatuous their rule – the democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the army. It was a coup, and John McCain was right to use that word.

The Brotherhood, of course, should long ago have curbed its amour propre and tried to keep within the shell of the pseudo-democracy that the army permitted in Egypt – not because it was fair or acceptable or just, but because the alternative was bound to be a return to clandestinity, to midnight arrests and torture and martyrdom. This has been the historical role of the Brotherhood – with periods of shameful collaboration with British occupiers and Egyptian military dictators – and a return to the darkness suggests only two outcomes: that the Brotherhood will be extinguished in violence, or will succeed at some far distant date – heaven spare Egypt such a fate – in creating an Islamist autocracy.

The pundits went about their poisonous work today before the first corpse was in its grave. Can Egypt avoid a civil war? Will the “terrorist” Brotherhood be wiped out by the loyal army? What about those who demonstrated before Morsi’s overthrow? Tony Blair was only one of those who talked of impending “chaos” in bestowing their support on General Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi. Every violent incident in Sinai, every gun in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood will now be used to persuade the world that the organisation – far from being a poorly armed but well-organised Islamist movement – was the right arm of al-Qa’ida.

History may take a different view. It will certainly be hard to explain how many thousands – yes, perhaps millions – of educated, liberal Egyptians continued to give their wholehearted support to the general who spent much time after the overthrow of Mubarak justifying the army’s virginity tests of female protesters in Tahrir Square. Al-Sisi will come under much scrutiny in the coming days; he was always reputedly sympathetic to the Brotherhood, although this idea may have been provoked by his wife’s wearing of the niqab. And many of the middle-class intellectuals who have thrown their support behind the army will have to squeeze their consciences into a bottle to accommodate future events.

Could Nobel Prize-holder and nuclear expert Mohamed el-Baradei, the most famous personality – in Western eyes, but not in Egyptian – in the ‘interim government’, whose social outlook and integrity looked frighteningly at odds with ‘his’ government’s actions today, have stayed in power? Of course not. He had to go, for he never intended such an outcome to his political power gamble when he agreed to prop up the army’s choice of ministers after last month’s coup.  But the coterie of writers and artists who insisted on regarding the coup as just another stage in the revolution of 2011 will – after the blood and el-Baradei’s resignation – have to use some pretty anguished linguistics to escape moral blame for these events.

Stand by, of course, for the usual jargon questions. Does this mean the end of political Islam? For the moment, certainly; the Brotherhood is in no mood to try any more experiments in democracy – a refusal which is the immediate danger in Egypt. For without freedom, there is violence. Will Egypt turn into another Syria? Unlikely. Egypt is neither a sectarian state – it never has been, even with 10 per cent of its people Christian – nor an inherently violent one. It never experienced the savagery of Algerian uprisings against the French, or Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian insurgencies against both the British and the French. But ghosts aplenty will hang their heads in shame today; that great revolutionary lawyer of the 1919 rising, for example, Saad Zaghloul. And General Muhammad Neguib whose 1952 revolutionary tracts read so much like the demands of the people of Tahrir in 2011.

But yes, something died in Egypt today. Not the revolution, for across the Arab world the integrity of ownership – of people demanding that they, not their leaders, own their own country – remains, however bloodstained. Innocence died, of course, as it does after every revolution. No, what expired today was the idea that Egypt was the everlasting mother of the Arab nation, the nationalist ideal, the purity of history in which Egypt regarded all her people as her children. For the Brotherhood victims today – along with the police and pro-government supporters – were also children of Egypt. And no one said so. They had become the “terrorists”, the enemy of the people. That is Egypt’s new heritage

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Egypt: A Revolution Bought for $6 Billion

الجيش المصري يرتكب مجزرة ضد متظاهري الإخوان ويواصل نشر الأكاذيب حول حيثياتها

June 8 2013 – At least 51 were massacred and over 500 injured among them hundreds in critical condition after the Egyptian army snipers fired at the Muslim Brotherhood protest against the military coup outside facility where the first elected Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi is held.

According to Egyptian sources, Western counties built up and financed the Egyptian opposition with about Six Billion Dollars During the past year, money which was used to pay poor Egyptians and incite them to attend demonstrations against the first elected President of Egypt, Dr. Mohammad Morsi and so manipulate the public opinion and create an atmosphere conducive to bringing their agent Mohammad ElBaradei into power.

When the Revolution of 2011, which was also instigated by westerners and zionists, went wrong and they failed to install ElBaradei into power, the conspirators turned around and obviously did everything to insure that this time around, their slimy creature would be firmly installed in power in Egypt. Back in 2011 El Baradei failed to attain any position in the government despite massive efforts to insinuate him into power.

His reputation is just bad: over 60% of Egyptians do not trust El Baradei and accuse him of being an agent of the USA, zionism and western countries, what has turned out to be true, as the first thing he wants to introduce compulsive “holocaust” teaching to the Egyptian school curriculum. And even this time and despite massive expenditures and the giant show of “popular revolution”, installing El Baradei has become a rather difficult undertaking.

Egyptians say that the Nobel Peace Prize obtained by El Baradei does not qualify him to be in the command center of power of Egypt and his attempts only serves to put more question marks around him. Egyptians also say that zionist element and war criminal Shimon Peres has obtained the Nobel Peace Prize, but that this did not change the facts and his past, namely being a member of the Haganah terror gang which ethnically cleansed Palestine and perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Anyone who listens to El Baradei conversations posted on Youtube in Arabic understands the wide gap between him and the Egyptian people. At a time when the Egyptians suffer of poverty and unemployment and while the Republic of Egypt can be seen as a State of illiterates as it occupies No. 3 on a list among the countries with highest prevalence of illiteracy, Mr. El Baradei speaks about non-issues such as the construction of an Institute for Buddhists in Egypt, compulsive teaching of “holocaust”, marrying Muslim women to non-Muslims, and other issues which are far away from the real issues and problems affecting the Egyptian people. What is more, the themes which are so important to Mr El Baradei and his backers in Washington and European countries could lead to the escalation of existing- and the creation of new conflicts in the country, which is already under severe pressure due to the ill-advised “revolution” of 2011.

Today 51 Egyptians were sniped and over 500 were injured among them critical condition when supporters of President Morsi were shot at in Cairo. Is this what the Westerners want? Is this what they call “democracy”? Were the reported six billion dollars paid to the opposition in Cairo in order to murder Egyptians in their homeland only because the past elections did not help install the President who the zionists wanted?

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Lives Of Hunger Striking Prisoners Are Endangered

PHR-Israel Exposes Laundry List of Medical Ethics Violations Committed by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) That Endangered the Lives of Hunger Striking Prisoners and Detainees – April 2013. Full Report

Ahead of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (April 17th) – and in light of the prolonged hunger strike currently waged by Palestinian Prisoner Samer Issawi, as well as recent reports detailing the deaths of several Palestinian security prisoners – PHR-Israel releases an extensive report exposing a long list of medical ethics and human rights violations carried out by the IPS, specifically by prison medical practitioners, that endangered the lives of prisoners and detainees on hunger strike. According to PHR-Israel, the violations are a direct result of situating prison medical services under the auspices of the IPS, which operate largely out of security considerations.

The struggle of Palestinian prisoners made headlines last year when five administrative detainees waged prolonged hunger strikes in protest of their detention. Ahead of last year’s Palestinian Prisoners’ Day just one year ago, 1,600 additional Palestinians launched a mass hunger strike as a show of support and solidarity with those already on prolonged strike, and in protest of the conditions of their incarceration. The hunger strikes made the Israeli and international publics conscious and aware of the arbitrary policies that the State of Israel and the IPS pursue and implement vis-à-vis Palestinian prisoners.

At the time of drafting, Samer ‘Issawi, originally freed under the agreement that secured the release of Gilad Shalit, then arrested again, is still on hunger strike.

As the hunger strikes continued, over the course of 2012, PHR-Israel bore witness to medical ethics and human rights violations, including violations of the right to health and deviations from professional standards, carried out by the prisoners’ treating physicians. Violations even reached the point of placing the lives of prisoners and detainees in immediate danger.

Problems of medical conduct are prevalent not only with regard to the treatment of hunger striking prisoners; they involve other cases, too. Over the last year, several security prisoners have died in incarceration; the latest of which were Arafat Jaradat and Maysra abu Hamdiyyeh and before that Ben Zygier, cases which raised suspicions over inadequate conduct by IPS medical staff and their treating physicians. Moreover, PHR-Israel receives dozens of complaints a year from Israeli inmates detailing medical neglect and the overall failure of the IPS medical system to respond to their needs. Palestinian prisoners in need of medical treatment, and their families, worry that their fates might end up like their peers’ who lost their lives as a result of the poor and inadequate services rampant in the prison system.

Written by PHR-Israel staff Amani Dayif and Hadas Ziv, the release of this report aims to trigger a process that affords greater protections to prisoners and detainees, especially those on hunger strike. PHR-Israel’s report surveys the hunger strikes waged by over a dozen Palestinian prisoners over the course of 2012. It features an analysis of the conduct of Israel’s various health institutions and medical staff. By looking through the prism of binding professional codes of ethics, the authors examine the extent to which these bodies were able to stand up to the challenges that the hunger strikes generated.

The report suggests that the ways in which the IPS medical system dealt and handled the cases of hunger strikers over the past year, underlines the high extent to which the prison medical system is amenable to the prison system, which is in turn amenable and subordinate to Israel’s political echelons. Information gathered over the course of the year also raises concerns that on account of this subordination, the prison medical system in fact operates according to political and security considerations, rather than medical considerations, the former of which runs contrary to the interests of the hunger striking patient. Furthermore, they worsen situations of dual loyalty (in which physicians have responsibility to the patient on one hand, and to their employer on the other), a problem already rampant among medical practitioners employed by the IPS.

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Urgent Petition to European Union: Save Palestinian Prisoners lives

From- The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) – We the undersigned organisations call on the European Union to take practical steps in stopping Israel’s continued violation of human rights through its abuse of Palestinian prisoners.

We call on all politicians, European institutions and NGOs to take prompt action to safeguard the lives of Palestinian prisoners from imminent harm.

Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners is akin to a slow death penalty and in clear violation of International Law.

The tragic death of the 64 year old, Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, as a result of Israel’s refusal to provide proper medical attention highlights the desperate and inhumane conditions faced by thousands of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

Poor health and chronic illness is endemic and pervasive within Israeli prisons. Of the 4500 Palestinians suffering in Israeli prison, 25 more have been diagnosed with cancer. They too are denied basic access to health care and proper treatment.

The European Union has a moral and legal responsibility under its Association Agreement to ensure that Israel upholds basic standards of human rights.

The European Union must:

• Freeze the EU-Israel Association Agreement until Israel stops its ongoing violation of human rights.
• All EU member states must put diplomatic pressure on Israel and ensure Israel provides health and medical attention to Palestinian prisoners.
• The EU must set up a committee to investigate the death of Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh and Arafat Jaradat who died recently under Israeli torture.
• The EU must carry out a full review of human rights violation of Israel before initiating normal trade relations with Israel

Signatory Organizations:

General Secretariat of the Palestinians in Europe Conference
The European Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners (UFree), Norway
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), UK
Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), UK
Koordination Forum Zur Unnterstützung Palästina-Austria
The Palestinian Rights Institute – Ireland
The Palestinian Forum – Denmark
Rights for All –Geneva
The Palestinian Women’s Forum – Germany
The Association of Social and Cultural Foundations – Moscow
Palestijinse Huis. HPH. Holland
Palästinensische Gemeinde Berlin-Germany
Palästinensischer Bund Deutschland für das-Berlin
Pal. Bund Deutschland für Rückkehrrecht -Germany
Palästinensische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland-Germany
The Islamic Council – Copenhagen
ABSPP ONLUS-Italy
ΕΛΛΗΝΟΠΑΛΑΙΣΤΙΝΙΑΚΗ ΦΙΛΙΑ- Greece
Palestinian Centre for Justice- Sweden
Associazione dei Palestinesi in Italia (API)
Palestinian Forum in Youlmd – Denmark
Palestinian Affairs Centre

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