By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery Haiti Chery We might never learn the motive behind the Boston Marathon bomb attack on Monday, April 15, 2013, which is reported to have killed three people and injured more than 170. It could … Continue reading →
By Staff, Witness Bahrain | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. On February 9, 2012, after being sentenced to life imprisonment for peacefully calling for reforms, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja launched a hunger strike and vowed he would persevere until freedom or death.
Continue reading →Joint Statement, Addameer, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Addameer and PHR-Israel fear that while Hana Shalabi was gravely ill from her hunger strike, she might have been coerced into ending this strike by a prevention of family visits and restriction of her access to physician and lawyers. UPDATE on April 5, 2012: Family reunited with Hana Shalabi in Gaza.
Continue reading →By Allison Deger, Mondoweiss | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq joint statement | Vivien Sansour, YouTube. Despite Hana Shalabi’s immediate risk of death, the Israeli Prison Service refuses to transfer her to a hospital, and an Israeli military judge of the Court of Appeals has postponed yet again making a decision regarding the order of a four-month long administrative detention.
Continue reading →By Sophie Crowe, Palestine Monitor | Press Release from PHR-Israel, Addameer | KFC Monument | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Hana Shalabi, a 30-year Palestinian, has been on a hunger strike since one month to protest her detention without charge in Israel’s HaSharon prison. Her health is in danger.
Continue reading →By Hilaire Yvince, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Psychology major Jaksy Fritzbert, from the School of Anthropology and a father of two, began a hunger strike on Mar 6, 2012 to protest his incarceration in Haiti’s National Penitentiary since February 24. The students say that this was a political arrest to intimidate them after they refused to allow Martelly and a group of armed men into an international symposium. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Pierre Klochendler, IPS | Staff, We Speak News. Khader Adnan, a 33-year-old Palestinian baker, went on a hunger strike that lasted 66 days from the start of his detention without charge or trial on Dec 18 in an Israeli jail. Over 300 Palestinians are so-called administrative detainees, some of whom have been held for over four years.
Continue reading →By Jay Donahue Solitary Watch via San Francisco Bay View “This is the largest prisoner strike of any kind in recent U.S. history,” says Ron Ahnen of California Prison Focus. “The fact that so many prisoners are participating highlights the … Continue reading →
