Palestinian parliamentarian, feminist and leftist leader Khalida Jarrar was once more ordered to imprisonment without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation. The renewal came for the fourth time on Thursday, 25 October; Jarrar has already been jailed without charge or trial for 16 months. The new detention order once again renews her imprisonment for four more months.

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, of which Jarrar serves as vice-chair of the board and was formerly the Executive Director, noted that a hearing confirming the order will be held in an Israeli military court within the next week.

Administrative detention was first brought to Palestine by the British colonial mandate before being adopted by the Zionist occupation. Administrative detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time, and they are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. There are currently approximately 450 Palestinians jailed under administrative detention out of a total of 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners.

Jarrar is imprisoned at HaSharon prison, where she and fellow women prisoners are engaged in an ongoing campaign of resistance to Israeli surveillance and repression inside the prison. Palestinian women prisoners have been denied family visits in retaliation for their protest.

Take Action!

Stand up for freedom for Khalida Jarrar and all Palestinian prisoners by taking action below.

Addameer has issued an action alert urging people to write and demonstrate for Khalida. Join in the action here: http://addameer.org/news/urgent-action-help-free-human-rights-defender-khalida-jarrar Organize a protest, demonstration or other gathering or event to Free Khalida Jarrar. Bring posters and flyers about Khalida’s case and hold a protest, or join a protest with this important information. Hold a community event or discussion, or include Khalida’s case in your next event about Palestine and social justice. Find your nearest Israeli embassy here: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel. Write to us at samidoun@samidoun.net or contact us on Facebook to let us know about your action! Contact your Member of Parliament, Representative, or Member of European Parliament. The attack on Khalida is an attack on Palestinian parliamentary legitimacy and political expression. Parliamentarians have a responsibility to pressure Israel to cancel this order. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. Learn more at bdsmovement.net.

Learn more about Khalida Jarrar:

Jarrar is a longtime advocate for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners, the Vice-Chair of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and its former Executive Director. A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council elected as part of the leftist Abu Ali Mustafa Bloc, associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she chairs the PLC’s Prisoners Committee.

She is also an outspoken leader in the fight to hold Israeli officials accountable for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. She is a member of a Palestinian commission charged with bringing complaints and files before the international court about ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, from attacks on Gaza to land confiscation and settlement construction to mass arrests and imprisonment.

This is not the first time she has faced arrest and persecution. In 2014, she resisted – and defeated – an Israeli attempt to forcibly displace her from her family home in el-Bireh to Jericho. Only nine months later, in April 2015, she was seized by Israeli occupation forces and ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. After a global outcry, she was brought before Israeli military courts and faced 12 charges based on her political activity, from giving speeches to attending events in support of Palestinian prisoners.

After she was released in June 2016, she resumed her leading role in the Palestinian liberation movement, only to be seized once more on 2 July 2017 and once again thrown in prison with no charges and no trial. Her administrative detention was already renewed for another six months in December 2017, and it is clear that the Israeli occupation has no intention of releasing Khalida, one of the leaders among the 6,200 Palestinian prisoners (including nearly 500 administrative detainees) in Israeli jails.

Within the Israeli occupation prison, she has played a leading role in supporting the education of the minor girls held there, organizing classes on human rights and in review for mandatory high school examinations when the prison authority denied the girls a teacher.

Organizations Supporting Khalida Jarrar

Over 290 international groups, political parties, labor unions and social movements signed on to a statement in July 2018 supporting Khalida’s release. To add your group’s name to the statement, use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net with your group’s name.

We come together today to demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, an end to the policy and practice of administrative detention and freedom for Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. We pledge to struggle for justice through protests, actions, organizing and escalating boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) actions against Israel, in Khalida’s own spirit of resistance.

Signed,

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Al-Awda, The Palestine Right of Return Movement Action Antifasciste NP2C Actions4Palestine Alkarama Movement of Palestinian Women Al-Quds Day Committee of New York Alternative Information Center American Muslims for Palestine – NY/NJ American Party of Labor Anticapitalistas Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland Anti Internment Group London Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Friends of Palestine ArbeiterInnenmacht (Germany) Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt (Austria) Asociación Palestina BILADI Association Belgo-Palestinienne Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP) Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), India Association France-Palestine Solidarité Association France-Palestine Solidarité — Groupe du Pays de Cornouaille AFPS 63 (Association France Palestine Solidarité 63) AFPS 59/62 AFPS Albertville AFPS Alès-Cévennes AFPS Groupe Local Ardèche-Drôme AFPS Nanterre AFPS Paris 14-6 Arbetarmakt (Workers Power) Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina Assopace Palestina – Italy ATIK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe BAF – Brigade Antifasciste de Strasbourg Balfour Declaration Centenary Campaign BDS Berlin BDS France Saint-Étienne BDS France Toulouse BDS Italia BDS Turkey BDS UChile (Universidad de Chile) BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish BDS Zürich Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI) Biellesi per la Palestina Libera Committee Black Alliance for Peace Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (aka Boycott from Within – Israeli citizens for BDS) Bruxelles Panthéres Cafe Palestina of the Southern Berkshires California Coalition for Women Prisoners Campagne BDS France Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Ibahim Abdallah (Paris) Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat Canada Palestine Association Canadian BDS Coalition Canadian Friends of Sabeel Centre de la Communauté Démocratique Kurde de Toulouse Cercle de Silence – Amiens Christchurch Progressive Network Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg Coalition of Women for Peace CODEPINK – Women for Peace Colectivo Contraimpunidad Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien Collectif de Soutien à la Résistance Palestinienne 59-62 Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine Collectif Justice pour la Palestine Annecy Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah Colletivo Palestina Rossa COMAC Comité Internacional Paz,Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie Comité Poitevin Palestine Comite pour le Respect des Libetés et des Droits de l Homme en Tunisie CRLDHT Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg Committee to Stop FBI Repression – National Committee to Stop FBI Repression – NY Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Europe Communist Party, Sweden Confederation Nationale du Travail / National Confederation of Labor (CNT-f) – International Secretariat Coordinamento Napoli Palestin Coordinamento di Solidarietà con la Palestina – Sicilia Corsica Internaziunalista Corvallis Palestine Solidarity Coup Pour Coup 31 DİSK (Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey) Dones x Dones Dun Padraig Friends of Palestine Egitim Sen Istanbul 6 Nolu Üniversiteler Subesi EH Bildu municipal group of Donostia Emmaus Bjorka Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival Familles de prisonniers pour la Justice – Belgique Femmes en lutte 93 Fight Racism! 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la paix (UJFP) United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network United for Palestine Toronto/GTA University of Leeds – Palestine Solidarity Group University of Sheffield Palestine Society UGEP (Unión General de Estudiantes Palestinos Chile) US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Victoria Coalition against Israeli Apartheid Victory to the Intifada Manchester Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging (Flanders) Vrede vzw WESPAC Foundation Within Our Lifetime • United for Palestine Women Against Military Madness Women In Solidarity With Palestine Women for Women’s Humans Rights – New Ways Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) Women’s Solidarity Foundation (KADAV)-Turkey Workers World Party YECHOUROUN-Judaisme contre sionisme Young Democratic Socialists – University of South Carolina

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