Vigil and Picket for Khader Adnan - Vancouver - Feb. 16, 2012

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on February 21, 2012 at 2:21pm

And just yesterday, Michelle Gildernew, the current Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Ireland, sent Khader and his family a message of support and solidarity. 

On Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnSKHJ3Qejo

Comment by Tony Nuspl on February 21, 2012 at 2:16pm

Posted 12 days ago, this video message of support for Khader is from Tommy McKearney. In 1980, Irish man McKearney went 53 days on a hunger strike in the H Blocks, in Northern Ireland. McKearney asks viewers to support Khader in any way you can, and demand the Israeli Government release Khader who is been held without charge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iwWZJPl_k

Also, just a few days ago, Raymond McCartney, the former Irish hunger striker and current Member of Northern Ireland’s Legislative Assembly for Sinn Féin in Ireland sent this message of solidarity to Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, as he entered his 63rd day of hunger strike protesting administrative detention (incarceration without trial and without conviction for any crime), a policy started by the British in Northern Ireland and which is illegal under international law.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/linah-alsaafin/video-raymond-mc...

Comment by Tony Nuspl on February 21, 2012 at 2:08pm

Sinn Féin activists join with members of Belfast Friends of Palestine outside Belfast City Hall to support Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader Adnan as he enters his 63rd day on Hunger Strike.
on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO4TWVlN8kw

Comment by Tony Nuspl on February 19, 2012 at 9:40am

"With international groups like Human Rights Watch demanding his release, and almost daily demonstrations in his support outside the Ofer military court near Ramallah, his case is fast taking on some of the political resonances of Bobby Sands, the most famous of the 10 IRA prisoners who died on hunger strike in prison in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s. Sands, an elected MP, died after 66 days without food.
     Sitting with her older daughter, Maali, in front of a poster of her husband proclaiming "I reject administrative detention and I will continue the hunger strike until I am released", Mrs Adnan said that he is determined to continue his fast. His resolve has been hardened, she said, not only by his summary arrest and its circumstances (he was seized while in the lavatory) but by his treatment during interrogation. She claimed her husband had been held for seven-hour periods – interspersed with one-hour breaks – on a short chair with his hands tied behind its back, causing him intense discomfort, and that parts of his beard had been torn out by interrogators.
     Mrs Adnan, who said that her husband had repeatedly declared that "my honour is more precious than food", added that her only hope now is that Israel will decide "to whiten its face in the world by releasing him". She said that it is for him to take the final decision.
     Mr Adnan's sister – also called Maali – tentatively acknowledged the possibility that her brother might yet be persuaded that he had done enough to transmit his message to the world protesting about the use of administrative detention without trial or charge. But, saying that Mr Adnan was a model father who "loves life", she added: "I am not sure that he wants just to deliver a message. He also wants to end the administrative detention. We have so much faith in Allah to get him out of this situation. We believe that God will not let him down."
Randa Adnan recalled that her husband told one of his lawyers: "I do not want to go to oblivion or death. But I am a man who defends his freedom. If I die it will be my fate."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khader-adnan-th...