Human Rights

NOVANEWS US, EU, Gulf Should Reject Immunity for Saleh, Aides Police patrol al-Hasab neighborhood in the Yemeni city of Taizz on December 6, 2011. © 2011 Samuel Aranda RELATED MATERIALS: “No Safe Places” Yemen: Civilian Shelling President Saleh’s forces killed and wounded hundreds of civilians, evicted hospital patients, and blocked war wounded from reaching care. Saleh is entitled to medical treatment, but he and his aides have no right to immunity from prosecution for international crimes. Letta Tayler, Yemen researcher (New York) – Yemeni security forces stormed and shelled hospitals, evicted patients at gunpoint, and beat medics during an assault on Yemen’s protest movement that killed at least 120 people in the flashpoint c...

NOVANEWS  The latest update is from one of his lawyers, Tamar Peleg-Sryck, who informs us that the judge who heard his appeal yesterday will write his decision only next week after the “protocol will be typed and delivered to him.”  We are not talking here about a person who has a lifetime ahead, and can wait for a decision weeks or months.  Khader Adnan is in danger of imminent death!  We must write and phone and try to save his life.  Of this more later in this note.  Here is what Tamar wrote.   Hi Dorothy Yesterday' February 9' we the lawyers  and Khader in a wheel chair attended the appeal against the decision  of the first instant judge to approve of the 4 month's administrative detention order. The appeal  proceedings took place in Sieff hospital in Safad where Khader  is presently ...

NOVANEWS Palestinians hold images of prisoner Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike since December 18 while being held in an Israeli jail, during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 6 February 2012. (Photo: AFP - Abbas Momani)   The family of 52-day Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan have appealed for an Israeli court to release him before he dies, with his wife describing his condition as “horrifying.” Adnan is due in court on Thursday to appeal a decision to uphold his four-month sentence amid increasing fears about his safety. Rights groups have criticized the decision to keep him in jail as Adnan, who is seriously ill and refusing minerals, is in serious danger of organ failure. Adnan has been on hunger strike since his detention on 17 December in prot...

NOVANEWS A Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike for 55 days to protest against his detention without trial by Israel is refusing medical treatment and his life is in danger, a hospital spokeswoman said on Thursday. Khader Adnan, 33, has been refusing to eat since mid-December, shortly after his arrest in the occupied West Bank, and has only drunk liquids since then. "He is not in good shape. People on a hunger strike for more than 50 days are in real danger. The doctors are extremely concerned," said Yael Shavit, spokeswoman for Sieff Hospital in the northern Israeli town of Safed, where Adnan has been taken. "He refuses to accept any treatment. He has not agreed to be hooked up to an IV," she said, referring to intravenous infusion. Palestinian officials say it is the longest hunge...

NOVANEWS by Allison Deger   (Photo: Sharif Solaiman/Addameer) Khader Adnan is on the 53rd day of hunger strike. Passing his 42nd day, the Palestinian political prisoner entered the fatal high-risk stage of starvation, where he is risking cardiac arrest and the inevitable shutting-down of major organs. The Palestine News Network reports what awaits Adnan: [A]fter the 42nd day of a hunger strike, it is expected that individuals will begin to lose their hearing and vision, and suffer bleeding in the gums, intestines, and esophagus. The body will gradually stop functioning. After the 45th day, there is a high risk of death due to vascular system collapse and/or cardiac arrest. Responding to the political prisoner’s dire health condition, advocates are desperately calling for the terminatio...

NOVANEWS  by Aaron International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Click to stand in solidarity and take action! On Monday and Tuesday Palestinians rallied for Khader Adnan and all political prisoners before regional offices of the Red Cross, demanding that the organization takes a solid stand for the rights of more than 5000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SUPPORT KHADER ADNAN Al Khalil: The mood was at once festive and somber Monday, February 6th, when a determined group of family, friends, and solidarity activists rallied in front of the Al Khalil (Hebron) office of the International Committee of the Red Cross, demanding that the organization take a stand for the rights of more than 5000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli p...

NOVANEWS Family Visit:Following PHR Israel's insistence, a family visit was granted to the hunger striker, Khader Adnan Mousa. His wife, Randa, and two daughters visited him today ataround 09:30 AM. The visit lasted 45 minutes.This family reunion was shadowed by Khader Adnan's condition at the meeting. He was shackled two legs and right hand to his hospital bed, so during this important family visit he could not hug his daughters and wife. Medical Deterioration:His clothes were dirty. His fingers were not trimmed for a long time, and he started to lose his hair. His body odor was unpleasant, and his wife was impressed that he has lost a third of his weight. During the visit he told her he insists on being examined by doctors he trusts – i.e. doctors sent by PHR Israel – and keeps on refusi...

NOVANEWS Prosecutor Backtracks on Throwing Out Disputed Confessions RELATED MATERIALS: Targets of Retribution Bahrain: Release People Jailed for Speaking Out Bahrain: Medics Describe Torture in Detention MORE COVERAGE:  More Human Rights Watch reporting on Bahrain The riot police’s assault on Nabeel Rajab and other peaceful demonstrators shows once again the government’s intolerance of peaceful assemblies. The authorities need to investigate this incident and hold those responsible for the attack to account. Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Bahraini riot police beat a prominent human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, as he was leaving a peaceful protest on January...