[van-announce] Sat. March 24: EMERGENCY Vigil for Hana Shalabi, Palestinian Hunger Striker - Vancouver

[Charlotte Kates]

*EMERGENCY Vigil for Hana Shalabi, Palestinian prisoner on Hunger Strike
for 36 Days*<http://samidoun.ca/2012/03/march-24-emergency-vigil-for-hana-shalabi-palestinian-prisoner-on-hunger-strike-for-36-days-vancouver/>

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*SATURDAY, March 24*
*5:00 PM - 6:30 PM*
*Vancouver Public Library*
*Robson and Homer St. - Vancouver*
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/270375406382165/

*Join us for an emergency vigil for Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker
Hana Shalabi, now on her 36th day of hunger strike. Hana is held without
charge or trial - and her life is now in jeopardy.*

Hana Shalabi is a Palestinian political prisoner held in an Israeli jail.
She has been on hunger strike for 36 days, protesting her detention without
charge or trial.

Hana Shalabi is a 30-year-old Palestinian woman from Burqin village near
Nablus, under Israeli occupation. She is currently held in administrative
detention, without charge or trial, after her arbitrary and violent arrest
on February 16, 2012. She was arrested by Israeli military occupation
authorities only four months after her release from a 30-month term - also
without charge or trial - in an Israeli prison as part of a prisoner
exchange. At no time has Hana Shalabi been charged with a crime, or placed
on trial - even one of the rigged military trials conducted by the Israeli
occupation.

Hana has been on hunger strike since her arrest - now 36 days. She is in
hospital under armed guard, and Physicians for Human Rights report that her
life is now in danger.

There are currently 4,489 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli
jails. 310 of these prisoners are held under administrative detention,
meaning arbitrarily, without charges or trial, in violation of
international human rights law. 40% of Palestinian men in the West Bank
have been held in Israeli jails at one point in their life - targeted for
insisting upon their people's freedom from occupation and return from exile.

The Canadian government under Stephen Harper has declared itself to be
Israel’s “greatest friend,” and worked around the world and in Canada to
silence Palestinians and the Palestinian cause. Now is the time for people
to speak out against injustice. Protests are taking place in Toronto,
Chicago, New York, Glasgow and more.* Join us to stand with Hana Shalabi
and demand her freedom, and freedom for Palestine.*

For more information about Hana Shalabi and her case, please see:
http://www.addameer.org/
etemplate.php?id=453<http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=453>

http://samidoun.ca/2012/03/​coalition-against-israeli-
apartheid-take-action-as-hana-​shalabis-medical-condition-
deteriorates-protest-to-
canadian-officials/<http://samidoun.ca/2012/03/coalition-against-israeli-apartheid-take-action-as-hana-shalabis-medical-condition-deteriorates-protest-to-canadian-officials/>

http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/​take-action-today-for-hana-al-
shalabi-administrative-
detainee-and-hunger-striker/<http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/take-action-today-for-hana-al-shalabi-administrative-detainee-and-hunger-striker/>


-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com