Message From Prisoner Hassan Salama From Remon Prison To Sadah Idrap TV Programme

08 May 2012

Praise be to Allah and peace and blessings be upon our prophet Muhammad and his family and companions.

To our great people,
our great nation,
free people of this world,
all those who made this glorious revolution which we are proud and which changed the face of this earth.

We, your brothers - prisoners in the prisons isolated from the world - love freedom like you, so we engaged in the battle for dignity so that even in our imprisonment we can live with dignity, or die with that dignity. We vow to Allah that we will not give up until we achieve our freedom. So we hope that you stay on your pledge for free people. We have faith in you, and that victory is coming soon - "Victory is only the patience of an hour." It is time, and it will come closer through your support of the prisoners, and the greater your activities, the closer is our victory.

Be reassured we are losing weight, but gaining in morale. Our motto of dignity with hunger’ is much better than humiliation with full stomachs.

All of our respect, appreciation and greetings to you, and we will meet again under the sun of freedom. They think the time of victory is far away, but it is so close.

In the name of Allah the Merciful
As you know, our free brothers everywhere, this is Day 18 of the open hunger strike of more than 3000 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons:

Punitive actions by the Israeli Prison Administration:
• moving prisoners from prison to prison and from one solitary confinement cell to another
• break into and ransacking cells
• preventing lawyers’ visits
• renewal of solitary confinement, and preventing approved visitors from coming, and subjecting those that are allowed to strip-searches and humiliation.
• trying to weaken the prisoners’ resolve by spreading rumours that their leaders have made agreements with the authorities.
• exploitation of patients in need of medicine, blackmailing them with medicines for freedom.

Despite all this, the prisoners have great determination, and they will not be satisfied by anything less than the meeting of all of their demands by the prison authorities, the most important of which are:

• an end to solitary confinement
• the re-introduction of family visits for prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and visit from those who are prohibited from visiting the West Bank.
• an end to the application of the ‘Shalit Law.’
• the provision of general secondary school examinations, and to be enabled to continue education through universities
• communication between prisoners to be allowed, and the provision of cafeteria and other rights guaranteed by international humanitarian law such as human rights charters and the Geneva Conventions.

Your brother / Kayed Jarbou "Abu Mustafa"
Director of the Office of the Secretary of Prisoners of War and Secretary of the Emergency Committee to follow the strike of prisoners.

Translation: Ibraheem Ghunaim

ENDS