The Palestine Committee of Norway have today sendt the letter below to the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
Today there has also been this article in the newspaper Klassekampen - Class Struggle:
http://www.klassekampen.no/59936/article/item/null/kjemper-for-adnans-liv We hereby want to show you our deepest respect and solidarity, as a representative for all palestinian detainees and prisoners. On behalf of the Palestine Committee, in solidarity - Kjersti Nordby
Oslo February 20th 2012
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Release Khader Adnan – end the administrative detention!
”Administrative detention” is a procedure the Israeli military uses to hold detainees indefinitely on secret evidence without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
The detention lasts for six months, and can be renewed an unlimited number of times, still without evidence and trial.
Both on The West Bank and the Gaza strip there has been large deminstrations for his support.
In 1981 the IRA activist and Member of Parliament in Ireland, Bobby Sands lost his life, after 66 days of hunger strike. 10 Irish prisoners died on hunger strike which triggered massive demonstrations in Northern Ireland. The prisoners situation concerns all factions and families in Palestine because most have experienced having a family member in jail. Israel has detained more than 700 000 Palestinians, equivalent to 20 percent of the population of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, since the Israeli occupation began in 1967.
Today there are 307 Palestinian prisoners under administrative custody, 21 were members of the Palestinian Parliament, elected in 2006, PLC. Also athletes are sitting in administrative detention. Mahmoud Assersek, a young and promising football player from the Gaza Strip, was imprisoned in July 2009 when he tried to reach the West Bank in order to audition for a Palestinian Football Club.
The Palestine Committee of Norway now ask the Government, Foreign Minister calling on the Israeli Government with demands for the immediate release of Khader Adnan. We request continued pressure to stop the unacceptable and widespread use of administrative detention against the Palestinian population.
Med hilsen
PALESTINE COMMITTEE OF NORWAY
Line Khateeb/s
Leader
Copy:
Amnesty Norway
”Friends of Palestine” on Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament
The Palestine Committee of Norway is a solidarity organization dedicated to the Palestine cause. Since it was founded late 1969, the organization has done its solidarity work both in Palestine and Norway. The Trade Union Section was founded in 2006, and has since then worked towards members in Norwegian Trade Union movement.
See the Program of principles for the Committee here:
http://www.palestinakomiteen.no/palestinakomiteen-mainmenu-49/prinsipprogram/english