April 16th, 2011 
Prisoners at Risk Campaign
On Palestinian prisoners day, 17 April 2011, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association launched its new campaign, Prisoners at Risk, which will raise awareness of specific cases of Palestinian political prisoners whose detention by Israel presents serious dangers. The campaign will begin with a demand to free Ayed Dudeen, who has been held by Israel without charge or trial since October 2007, making him the currently longest held administrative detainee.
Take action on behalf of the Prisoners at Risk by joining our campaign!
Prisoners at Risk Campaign
On Palestinian prisoners day, 17 April 2011, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association launched its new campaign, Prisoners at Risk, which will raise awareness of specific cases of Palestinian political prisoners whose detention by Israel presents serious dangers. The campaign will begin with a demand to free Ayed Dudeen, who has been held by Israel without charge or trial since October 2007, making him the currently longest held administrative detainee.
Take action on behalf of the Prisoners at Risk by joining our campaign!
Prisoners at Risk: Addameer launches new campaign on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
April 16th, 2011 Ramallah, 17 April 2011
Today, Addameer marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day by officially launching its new campaign, Prisoners at Risk, which will raise awareness of specific cases of Palestinian political prisoners whose detention presents serious dangers. The campaign will begin with a demand to free Ayed Dudeen, who has been held by Israel without charge or trial since October 2007, making him the currently longest held administrative detainee.
At present, almost 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners remain in Israeli prisons. While it is impossible to fully document the violations these prisoners have endured, it is vital that the voices of forgotten prisoners are magnified to illustrate the vast range and types of dangers that they are exposed to every day. The Prisoners at Risk campaign aims to highlight those cases that receive little public attention yet raise grave concern and require urgent action. They include prisoners suffering from serious diseases at risk of further deterioration as a consequence of medical neglect; prisoners at risk of indefinitely renewable detention without charge or trial; human rights defenders at risk of repeated arbitrary detention in an effort to quell their non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation; and prisoners at risk of torture because of their persistent refusal to be silent about their ill-treatment. “This campaign, and its focus on the mobilization of international civil society, is absolutely essential”, says Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, “because the failure of peace talks, including Oslo, to resolve the prisoner issue has amply demonstrated that without intense external pressure, Israel will never abide by international human rights and humanitarian law.” Read the rest of this entry »
Today, Addameer marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day by officially launching its new campaign, Prisoners at Risk, which will raise awareness of specific cases of Palestinian political prisoners whose detention presents serious dangers. The campaign will begin with a demand to free Ayed Dudeen, who has been held by Israel without charge or trial since October 2007, making him the currently longest held administrative detainee.
At present, almost 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners remain in Israeli prisons. While it is impossible to fully document the violations these prisoners have endured, it is vital that the voices of forgotten prisoners are magnified to illustrate the vast range and types of dangers that they are exposed to every day. The Prisoners at Risk campaign aims to highlight those cases that receive little public attention yet raise grave concern and require urgent action. They include prisoners suffering from serious diseases at risk of further deterioration as a consequence of medical neglect; prisoners at risk of indefinitely renewable detention without charge or trial; human rights defenders at risk of repeated arbitrary detention in an effort to quell their non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation; and prisoners at risk of torture because of their persistent refusal to be silent about their ill-treatment. “This campaign, and its focus on the mobilization of international civil society, is absolutely essential”, says Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, “because the failure of peace talks, including Oslo, to resolve the prisoner issue has amply demonstrated that without intense external pressure, Israel will never abide by international human rights and humanitarian law.” Read the rest of this entry »
AYED MOHAMMED SALEM DUDEEN
April 16th, 2011
Date of birth: 20 September 1967Place of residence: Dura village, south of Hebron.
Occupation: Nurse and ambulance officer. Ayed has been the deputy director of the Hebron Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s ambulance and emergency services since 1989.
Marital status: Married and father of six
Place of detention: Ketziot Prison
Postal address: Ketziot Prison, P.O. Box 13, Postal Code: 84102, Israel
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Date of Arrest: 19 October 2007
Number of detention orders to date: 30
Days spent in detention without charge or trial: 3 years and 180 days
Expected end of current detention order: 11 June 2011
ARREST
Ayed Dudeen was arrested on 19 October 2007 at 2:30 a.m. when Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) soldiers accompanied by an Israeli intelligence officer raided his family home in Dura village, south of Hebron. The soldiers, who did not present a search or arrest warrant, forced Ayed and his family out of their home and searched it for one hour. They then ordered Ayed to get dressed, shackling and blindfolding him before transferring him to an interrogation center, where he was questioned for six days. Read the rest of this entry »
Prisoners at Risk campaign’s Activist Toolkit
April 16th, 2011- Letter to Israeli authorities re Ayed Dudeen (pdf)
- Letter to EU Parliament re Ayed Dudeen (pdf)
- Facebook page for prisoners at risk
- Facebook page for Ayed Dudeen
