Marwan Barghouthi Archives - Voice of the Cape

IPS meets with strike leaders as female prisoners denounce detention conditions

A meeting was held on Monday between the Israel Prison Service (IPS) administration and Palestinian prisoners representing a mass hunger strike movement which ended more than a week earlier after hundreds went without food for 40 days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. The meeting, the details of which remained unclear as of Monday evening, took place as reports emerged that some female Palestinian prisoners were planning civil disobedience measures […]

6 June 2017

International News

Barghouthi: Hunger strike marks ‘turning point’ for Palestinians

Marwan Barghouthi, the imprisoned Fatah leader who led a mass 40-day hunger strike across Israeli prisons, released a statement on Tuesday for the first time since the end of the hunger strike several days ago, calling the strike a “turning point” in the Palestinian prisoners’ relationship with Israeli prison officials and warned Israeli authorities that prisoners would resume their strike if their commitments were not fulfilled. The statement, which was […]

31 May 2017

International News

Israeli authorities continue attempts to break mass hunger strike on 24th day

As some 1,600 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons entered their 24th day on hunger strike on Wednesday, the prisoners have reported severe health deterioration -- including several hunger strikers coughing up blood -- and continued repressive measures imposed on the prisoners by the Israel Prison Service (IPS). Israeli authorities have also escalated their delegitimization campaign against Marwan Barghouthi, an imprisoned Fatah figure and the main leader of the strike.Palestinian prisoners […]

11 May 2017

International News

Committee- ‘Footage of Barghouthi breaking hunger strike is fake’

A committee supporting the mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike has denounced footage released Sunday evening by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) purporting to show strike leader Marwan Barghouthi eating in his prison cell, calling the release part of an Israeli “war of lies” to discredit the prisoner movement. The footage -- which did not bear timestamps and did not clearly show the face of the prisoner being filmed -- allegedly […]

8 May 2017

Opinions

Making Marwan Barghouti a terrorist and magnifying Israel’s oppression

By Jonathan Ofir Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti’s op-ed posted in the New York Times titled ‘Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons’ was the inauguration of a massive hunger strike by more than a thousand Palestinian detainees against their treatment by Israel. The article appeared only on the international edition, but still, it was something. The publication brought the predictable fury of Israeli leaders. The fact that the article […]

26 April 2017

News

Support for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

As Palestinian prisoners in Israel end their second day of a hunger strike, social activists have urged the international community to support the fight for political freedom, not just in Palestine, but around the world. Approximately 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners launched a mass hunger strike yesterday to fight against the harsh conditions and violation of human rights that they face daily. The action, led by Marwan Barghouti, a former Palestinian […]

18 April 2017

International News

Palestinian prisoners launch mass hunger strike

Some 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel launched a mass hunger strike on Monday to press for basic rights and shed light on the difficult humanitarian conditions inside Israeli prisons. The open-ended hunger strike, one of the largest in recent years, coincides with Palestinian Prisoners Day, annually commemorated on April 17. Led by jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the strike will see Palestinian prisoners from across the political spectrum […]

17 April 2017

Opinions

Kathrada translated Mandela’s ideals on Palestine into a meaningful roadmap for freedom

By Ebrahim Moosa If it was the great South African icon Nelson Mandela who proclaimed that “…but we know too well that our freedom isn’t complete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” it was his prison mate and lifelong confidant Ahmed Kathrada who showed a roadmap for the attainment of this elusive freedom. To the late Kathrada, who would reminisce about Madiba as his elder brother, belongs the credit of […]

4 April 2017

Marwan Barghouthi

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