The Campaign to Free
Ahmad Sa'adat
The following statement was issued December 3, 2007, the International Day of
Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War, by the International
League of People's Struggles in
Vancouver, Canada, on the occasion of a very successful event in
Vancouver in which a member of the campaign spoke about the case and dozens of
letters of support were collected. The event was a strong and powerful
affirmation of international solidarity with political prisoners, and the
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat thanks the ILPS for its support and
participation in the Campaign.
Free Ahmed Sa'adat and 11,000 Palestinian Political Prisoners in
Israeli Jails
Statement of the International League of People's Struggles participating
organizations in
Vancouver, Canada
3 December 2007
On the occasion of the International Day for Solidarity with
Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (December 3), participating
organizations of the ILPS in
Vancouver join the call for freedom for Ahmed Sa'adat. Sa'adat, the
Secretary-General of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was kidnapped by Israeli
Occupation Forces in March 2006, and is being tried in an Israeli military
court on charges of being a member of a banned organization and holding a post
in an illegal organization.
The real motivation for jailing Sa'adat is his leadership in the Palestinian
struggle for national and social liberation. Since 1967 the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has been an active part
of Palestinian resistance and a stalwart defender of the right of all
Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands throughout Palestine.
In 2001 Sa'adat was elected Secretary-General of the PFLP following Israel's
assassination of previous leader Abu Ali Mustafa by rocket attack. Under his
leadership the PFLP was an active participant in the Al-Aqsa intifada
(uprising) against the Israeli occupation.
Sa'adat is just one of over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in
Israeli jails including hundreds of women and children. Over 25% of all
Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967 have been held as
political prisoners or 'administrative detainees' (another form of politically
motivated detention) at one time or another.
Israel holds these prisoners as part of a strategy to defeat
Palestinian resistance to its policies of occupation, ethnic cleansing and
apartheid.
No jail cell can contain the Palestinian people's just struggle for national
and social liberation. As democratic and anti-imperialist organizations in
Vancouver, Canada, we condemn the labelling of people in struggle for
liberation and justice as criminal or terrorist, and we join the growing
international call for freedom for Ahmed Sa'adat and all Palestinian political
prisoners.
Free Ahmed Sa'adat and all Palestinian political prisoners!
Stop Israeli state terrorism!
Long live international solidarity!
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نص البيان
باللغة الانجليزية
العصبة الاممية
لنضال الشعوب -فرع كندا
تطالب
بالافراج الفوري عن الرفيق سعدات و11 الف اسير واسيرة من سجون الاحتلال
نظمت العصبة الاممية لنضال الشعوب ( ILPS)
في مدينة فانكوفر الكندية وقفة إحتجاجية ضد
السياسة الاسرائيلية والامريكية وذلك بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للتضامن مع المعتقلين
السياسيين. واختارت المنظمات المشاركة في التظاهرة تسليط الضوء على معاناة الاسرى
في السجون الاسرائيلية والتضامن مع عدد من القيادات السياسية الاسيرة في العالم
الثالث خصوصا في سجون الكيان الصهيوني والولايات المتحدة وكندا والمكسيك وغيرها
.
وتخلل النشاط توزي مئات البيانات الخاصة
بقضية الامين العام خاصة في محطات الميترو وفي الشوراع المكتظة في مناطق شرق
فانكوفر والاحياء العمالية .
وفي المساء عقدت ندوة خاصة بالمناسبة في
مركز نقابة سائقي الحافلات حيث تحدث فيها عدد من النشطاء كما تم جمع عشرات
التواقيع المطالبة بالافراج عن الرفيق سعدات وكل الاسرى والاسيرات في سجون
الاحتلال
