Brussels, May 18, 2012

Dear friends,

Subject: Marcel has been released at last

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012, after five months in custody, Marcel has been released and was able to return home. They brought him back home in a small van.

As usual, the news was released by the news agency Belga (Belgian State) and has been copied without any comment by the newspapers under the title 'Marcel Vervloesem free under conditions'.

But these conditions are the same conditions that had been previously imposed on him, with one small difference: the police of the city of Turnhout has to control from now on that he'll have no contact with our association or with the Flemish actor Jo Reymen, nor with the Foundation of princesses of Croÿ and Lancellotti.

This is completely ridiculous. Why prevent him from having contact with his best friends and the association that he has founded ?

Marcel is also banned from having any contact with associations that fight child abuse, and he's not allowed to talk the press, nor to travel abroad.

The decision to release Marcel came after a meeting of the court of Turnhout where Marcel's lawyer pleaded for half an hour and where Marcel, for the first time since his arrest, was allowed to talk himself.

The judges claimed they knew nothing of the judgment of the court for the Enforcement of Sentences of Antwerp in February, that had already declared Marcel innocent, on the grounds on the results of the the judicial inquiry. These judges are the same judges who have been persecuting Marcel for 11 years for his work in the Zandvoort case, a network of child abuse with almost 90.000 identified victims.

The Minister of Belgian Justice, Anne-Marie Turtelboom (Open VLD, the Flemish Liberals), was being kept informed for 5 months about Marcel's case and everything that happened in the prison of Turnhout where there are so many prisoners (210 instead of the 120 for which it has been built), that some inmates are forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor.

Her ministry has responded only once to our letters. This was after our complaint about the theft of our leaflets and material before the ministry of Justice where the minister has her office.

Turtelboom didn't respond to our complaint that the letters of Marcel (even those of his daughter and his granddaughter) were being withheld for several months while this was in violation of the basic law and the rights of prisoners.

And as we know, the minister and her services even allowed that Marcel was locked-up with a mental patient in the same cell for a week, what was one of the reasons for Marcel's heart problems and infections for which he had to be urgently hospitalized in the emergency room of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Turnhout.

There, for five days, Marcel was chained to his hospital bed.

Marcel is a cancer patient, has a kidney and heart disease and is seriously diabetic.

This proves once again that Turtelboom doesn't have any respect for human rights and sees people who are being held in custody without any justified reason, as convicted criminals.

And then there was the whole story about the psychiatric report of V., the man who accused Marcel.

The judges of the Council Chamber of the court of Turnhout used this report as a pretext to keep Marcel for 5 months in prison.

The purpose of this report was also to give V. the status of 'a credible victim', and to convict Marcel once again.

Minister Turtelboom was being kept informed by us for months in this case, but she never replied.

The Minister who preaches an 'impartial judiciary', appointed the Turnhout prosecutor Jan Poels as her chief of staff ...

A few months ago, our association sent important documents of the Zandvoort file to Turtelboom.

The content of these documents is directly related to the abuse and rape of children in the kindergartens in Amsterdam, for which Robert M., called the 'Monster of Riga', has been prosecuted, as if he was the only actor of these crimes.
But Turtelboom didn't respond to the demand of our association to send this information to her Dutch colleague.

A few days ago, I complained to the Federal Prosecutor in Brussels about the many irregularities in the prosecution of Marcel in Turnhout.

The federal prosecutor responded first with the brief statement, that there was 'no indication that the email had been really sent by me'.

Then I sent the Federal Prosecutor some more information about the falsification of the psychiatric report in which V. was portrayed as a "good boy" while the psychologist knew that V. has a criminal record in the Youth Court of Turnhout.

The federal prosecutor then told me that my letter had been forwarded to the Attorney General of Antwerp to whom he invited me to transfer all my further information in this case.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Jan Boeykens, president of the Morkhoven Group

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PS. You can publish this letter where-ever you want.

Please read Addameers press release about the Palestinian prisoners hunger strike:

Progress for Prisoners’ Movement:

Palestinian Prisoners’ Mass Hunger Strike Concludes After Agreement is Reached

http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=481

Ramallah, 15 May 2012 – After nearly a full month of fasting, around 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended last night their mass hunger strike upon reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to attain certain core demands. Addameer lauds these achievements of the prisoners’ movement and can only hope that Israel will implement any policy changes in good faith. Addameer especially commends those individuals who engaged in open hunger strike for over two months, displaying remarkable steadfastness in the struggle for their most basic rights.

The demands raised in the collective hunger strike, which was launched on 17 April, included an end to the IPS’ abusive use of isolation for “security” reasons, which currently affects 19 prisoners, some of whom have spent 10 years in isolation, and a repeal of a series of punitive measures taken against Palestinian prisoners following the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, including the denial of family visits for all Gaza prisoners since 2007 and denial of access to university education since June 2011. Prisoners also called for an end to Israel’s practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial in administrative detention. Eight prisoners, including five administrative detainees, had already begun their hunger strikes as early as the end of February.

The details of the agreement signed last night by the prisoners’ committee representing the hunger strikers was recounted today to Addameer lawyer Fares Ziad in his visit to Ahed Abu Gholmeh, who is a member of the committee, and to Addameer lawyer Mahmoud Hassan during his visit to Ahmad Sa’adat in Ramleh prison medical clinic, who conveyed what he was told last night when members of the committee came to Ramleh to announce the end of the hunger strike.

According to Ahed Abu Gholmeh, the nine members of the hunger strike committee met yesterday with a committee consisting of IPS officials and Israeli intelligence officers and determined the stipulations of their agreement. The written agreement contained five main provisions: the prisoners would end their hunger strike following the signing of the agreement; there will be an end to the use of long-term isolation of prisoners for “security” reasons, and the 19 prisoners will be moved out of isolation within 72 hours;family visits for first degree relatives to prisoners from the Gaza Strip and for families from the West Bank who have been denied visit based on vague “security reasons” will be reinstated within one month; the Israeli intelligence agency guarantees that there will be a committee formed to facilitate meetings between the IPS and prisoners in order to improve their daily conditions; there will be no new administrative detention orders or renewals of administrative detention orders for the 308 Palestinians currently in administrative detention, unless the secret files, upon which administrative detention is based, contains “very serious” information.

For the five administrative detainees on protracted hunger strikes, including Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, who engaged in hunger strike for a miraculous 77 days, their administrative detention orders will not be renewed and they will be released upon the expiration of their current orders. These five have been transferred to public hospitals to receive adequate healthcare during their fragile recovery periods. In regards to Israel’s practice of administrative detention as a whole, Ahmad Sa’adat further noted that the agreement includes limitations to its widespread use in general. Addameer is concerned that these provisions of the agreement will not explicitly solve Israel’s lenient and problematic application of administrative detention, which as it stands is in stark violation of international law.

Addameer has observed that Israel has consistently failed to respect the agreements it executes with Palestinians regarding prisoners’ issues. For this reason, it will be essential for all supporters of Palestinian political prisoners to actively monitor the events of the next few months to ensure that this agreement is fully implemented. As a human rights organization committed to the international standards of the rights of prisoners, Addameer will also continue to monitor closely the conditions inside Israeli prisons in order to assure that conditions meet compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law.

On the day commemorating 64 years since the Palestinian Nakba, it is regrettable that it has taken the near-starvation of Palestinian political prisoners en masse to call attention to their plight; it is therefore imperative to take this opportunity to not only applaud their achievements but also to push forward lobbying efforts on their behalf and demand a just and permanent resolution for their cause. Addameer extends its utmost gratitude to the dedicated activists and institutions, including members of civil society and the diplomatic community, who have supported the Palestinian prisoners in their campaign for dignity.

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Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

They closed the website 'Droit Fondamental' (Fundamental Rights) of princess J. of Croÿ.

All links on Google and all information around the Zandvoort case, pedophile networks, the lawsuit against Marcel Vervloesem, tortures in prisons ... have been blocked.

The princess started to create a new website.

The new address is: http://fondationprincessedecroy.morkhoven.org/ (if the link is not disabled by the departments of Belgian Justice which use any means to remove the Werkgroep Morkhoven and the Foundation of the Internet and who decided to censor all information).

It is for this reason that the accounts of Werkgroep Morkhoven and the Foundation of the princess on Facebook, were regularly closed.

Several years ago, the criminals who accused teh anti-childporn-activist Marcel Vervloesem of 'rape', wrote a small petition in which they asked to hunt Marcel Vervloesem of its social housing. They asked even to remove the Werkgroep Morkhoven from the Internet.

The petition was signed by themselves, came on the political agenda of the city where the mayor of Herentals, Jan Peeters (Social Democratic Party, member of Parliament, former Minister), accepted the proposal.

He sent the request to expel the Werkgroep Morkhoven from the Internet to the Service of Legal Affairst of the municipality.

Two years ago, Marcel Vervloesem was driven out from his home. Even people (and their mother of 80 years which was seriously ill) that had supported the Werkgroep Morkhoven, were driven out from their homes as a result of a new petition made by the criminals which was forwarded to the director of the entrepise for social housing 'Geelse Bouwmaatschappij' which is subsidized by the Belgian government.

V., the man who organized the complaints against Marcel Vervloesem in 1998 by all kind of rumors in the media, lives in the same neighborhood as Marcel Vervloesem and above-mentioned family.

He is a member of the Social Democratic Party; he knows the mayor personally; he is a member for already 20 years of the direction of Geelse Bouwmaatschappij; a few years ago he was appointed as a member of the Centre for Social Affairs of the city of Herentals; then he was 'elected' with 100 votes as a councilor of Herentals; he was elected as Chairman of the Committee on Security and Police of Herentals and represents the city in two intermunicipal companies.

It is remarkable that V. knows hardly to write. He writes phonetically without commas and points.

So it is therefore clear that there is a political corruption in this case.

But there is something more.

There are about 30 police reports of V. who is gay (Werkgroep Morkhoven does not condemn homosexuals) because of sexual offenses with young boys. These reports were never investigated by Justice.

During 14 years already, the Belgian press allows V. to accuse Marcel Vervloesem of 'pedophilia' without any evidence, while four years ago, Belgian justice decided in a judgment, to ban Marcel Vervloesem on speaking with the press.

That is very strange.

It is also remarkable that V. accused Marcel Vervloesem just at the time that the international press, including the three largest Japanese newspapers, were reporting about the Zandvoort case because it proved for the first time that international pedo criminal networks, really exist while it is still denied by the Belgian government that is still traumatized by the Dutroux case.

In the Zandvoort file there is also a picture of a well-known French youth magistrate abusing a young boy. This magistrate has good contacts with some members of the French government. And it was Georges Zicot, the police inspector that was accused in the Dutroux case, who claimed in a fax that the magistrate 'was not a magistrate but a man from the criminal nightlife of Charleroi (which is wrong).

Is there a link between de Dutroux case and the Zandvoort case ?

Marcel Vervloesem who is seriously ill (cancer, renal disease, heart disease, diabetes) is just coming back of the intensive care of the hospital of Turnhout , where he spent during 5 days with an iron chain attached to his bed,

He is again in the prison of Turnhout which is so overcrowded (210 prisoners while the prison is made for 120 prisoners) that many prisoners have to sleep on mattresses on the ground. He also teased again because the direction of the prison is blocking his letters again.

He is now almost 5 months in custody while the judicial investigation showed that he is innocent and the Antwerp court of Excecution of Penality Antwerp pleaded for his release.

Remarkable: The judges of the Chamber of the Council of Turnhout which keep him behind the bars were the judges which proceeded him during 11 years coverin up the Zandvoort case.

The Minister of Belgian Justice, A. Turtelboom (VLD, Liberal Party), who preaches 'a magistrates without partiality', was repeatedly informed about the partiality of the judges.

The Morkhoven group presumes that Marcel Vervloesem's confinement in inhumane conditions is the result of the fear of the Belgian and Dutch authorities.

A few months ago the trial about the abuse of children in baby cribs in Amsterdam was started. The Zandvoort case is related to this case and the abuse of the children in Amsterdam could be prevented if Justice had done its job.

A few weeks ago, the Morkhoven Group asked the Minister of Justice to forward the documents of the Zandvoort case that talk about the Amsterdam, to the Dutch Minister of Justice.

But the Minister didn't answer.

Robert M., called the 'Monster of Riga' in the tabloids, which (as Marc Dutroux) is presented all the time as an 'isolated predator ' was quickly sentenced on April 6th, 2012. But he is sentenced on an incomplete file and the network of child molesters still exists.

Photo: Marcel Vervloesem, Princess of Croÿ and Jan Boeykens of Werkgroep Morkhoven

Arbeit Macht Frei.gif The minister of Belgian justice, Annemie Turtelboom (Open VLD, Liberal Party), says that the more than 10.000 Belgian prisoners have 'the right to work'.

It is in this way that the minister and its political party, which preaches a 'zero tolerance against criminality', wants to attract large companies to prisons.

The companies need cheap labor forces without they have to pay social security costs.

The 'right to work' is almost the only right that Belgian prisoners will have. They don't have any other rights as a result of the fact that the so called prison law is not applied.

There is no form of control about what is going on in prisons. And the authorities are not interested in prisoners' rights.

So most prisoners are systematically victim of abuse of power and arbitrary sanctions taken by the prison managers.

Photo: 'Arbeit Macht Frei' was the inscription on the front gate of Dachau. All camp prisinors passed through this gate and read the inscription. Translation: "work brings freedom" or "work shall set you free"

Israel punishes hunger striking prisoners by transferring them to other end of country

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on 3/06/2012

Approximately 80 political prisoners have been transferred from Gilboa prison to Nafha prison in the Naqab [Negev] desert, according to the news site Arabs48. The transfer follows a solidarity hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners, which I reported in myblog of 28 February. I wrote that the prisoners in Gilboa prison welcomed the call for an international day of action on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The prisoners in sections 2, 4 and 5 participated in a one-day hunger strike on 13 February for which they were immediately punished by the prison authorities.

The political prisoners from section 4 were transferred to Nafha prison this week. They are residents from Jerusalem, Israel and the occupied Golan Heights. Nafha prison is located in the south of Israel — a large distance from Gilboa prison in the north.

I asked Sahar Francis, director of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, to comment on the prisoners transfer: “Actually we don’t know exactly why the prisoners were transferred. This is the usual behavior of the Israeli Prison Service, to transfer prisoners far away from home. To make it more difficult for the families to visit their relatives in prison as an act of punishment, an act of collective punishment. Although sometimes they [the Israeli Prison Service] claim the transfer was needed for reconstruction activities. At times of hunger strikes they transfer the leaders a lot - even on a daily basis – in order not to encourage, empower people to join in the hunger strike.”

Fouad Sultani, father of one of the transferred prisoners, told the news site Arabs48that the transfer increases the suffering of the prisoners because of the conditions in Nafha prison and the desert environment. It also means an increase in the suffering of the families who visit the prisoners. The majority live in the north and they will have to travel long hours to visit their imprisoned loved ones. According to the news site, the prisoners have protested their transfer by trying to prevent the execution of the transfer.

In an interview with me published on The Electronic Intifada last week, Shawan Jabarin, director of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, describing Israel’s ill-treatment of Palestinian political prisoners:

The punishment mentality is guiding the Israeli practices and policies. Every day new rules are created, [prisoners] have to take off their clothes while the rooms are searched, [the prison authorities] are transferring prisoners, isolating them for years. It is psychological torture. It is part of a revenge, a punishment mentality. To restrict [Palestinians] from their freedom is not enough.

And in a letter to me that I published on my blog last week, political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and civil society leader currently held in Gilboa prison, described the actions preceding the transfer of prisoners:

The message of the prisoners was clear: (..) that Palestinian political prisoners are in solidarity, united and one voice. In addition, [the message was] that the case of Khader Adnan is not an individual case but it is matter to all Palestinian prisoners with all consequences and responsibility. On the other side, it was an act that strengthened the Palestinian prisoners internally, because this act was not for any service provision or benefit. It was for the solidarity with [a] fighter for freedom. It is a great moment. The motto of our action was that if we Palestinian political prisoners request others to express solidarity with us and to campaign for us, we should be in solidarity among ourselves.

Meanwhile, the support for the Palestinian political prisoners is growing. The call to make Palestinian Political Prisoners day – 17 April – a day of international action has been endorsed by more than sixty organizations. Mireille Fanon Mendès-France, member of the UN Working Group on People of African Descent, and Jan J. Wijenberg, Former Ambassador for the Kingdom of The Netherlands, have joined Richard Falk and Ahmed Kathrada in adding weight to the international campaign. The call has been published in several languages and can be endorsed online.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-...

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Marcel Vervloesem, the man who revealed the Zandvoort childporn case (90.000 victims), is locked up in prison again. The judges which decided to lock him up in prison again are the same judges which prosecuted him during 11 years and were covering up the Zandvoort case.

Photo: Vervloesem's investigation to the German boy Manuel Schadwald who vanished. Gina Bernaer-Pardaens, a RTBF-journalist who did also research to find him back, was assassinated. For several months she had phone problems. A few week before her death, she was in an intimidating way interrogated by belgian justice for 3 hours.

Write Marcel Vervloesem: Gevangenis Turnhout (prison of Turnhout), tav. Marcel Vervloesem, Cel 139, Wezenstraat 1, 2300 Turnhout (Belgium)

(More information via Google: 'Marcel Vervloesem', 'Werkgroep Morkhoven', 'Zandvoort case')

JENIN, February 27, 2012 (PIC) – The Israeli Hasharon prison administration has moved hunger striker Hana’a Shalabi to an isolation cell in the midst of Jewish female homicide convicts.

Palestinian human rights sources said that the step served as a penal measure against Shalabi for insisting on continuing in her strike.

Shalabi, 29, told her lawyer on Sunday that she would continue in her hunger strike as the only available means to attain her rights.

The lawyer quoted the detainee as saying that the administrative detention against her was a capital punishment and not an administrative custody.

He said that she was brutally beaten on her arrest then sentenced without any charge to six months administrative custody, which prompted her to go on hunger strike.

The lawyer said that the soldiers ordered her to strip for search but she refused and was beaten for her refusal, adding that she was suffering from pain in the head and all over her body because of the beating.

He said that Shalabi wants an end to her detention and punishment for those who beat her in order to end her strike.

Shalabi, on her 12th day of hunger strike, has demanded the intervention of the Egyptian authorities since Cairo was the one that patronized the prisoners’ exchange deal between Hamas and Israel by which she was released and by which she should not be re-arrested.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com...

Palestinian.Belgian.prisoners.actions.jpg PALESTINE:

Khader Adnan for 66 days on hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial...

In a letter he gave to his lawyers for public release, Adnan explained why he was on hunger strike:

'The Israeli occupation has gone to extremes against our people, especially prisoners. I have been humiliated, beaten, and harassed by interrogators for no reason, and thus I swore to God I would fight the policy of administrative detention to which I and hundreds of my fellow prisoners fell prey ... The only thing I can do is offer my soul to God, as I believe righteousness and justice will eventually triumph over tyranny and oppression. I hereby assert that I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake as an individual, but for the sake of thousands of prisoners who are being deprived of their simplest human rights while the world and international community look on. It is time the international community and the UN support prisoners and force the State of Israel to respect international human rights and stop treating prisoners as if they were not humans'.

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BELGIUM:

The Belgian activist Marcel Vervloesem who revealed the Zandvoort childporn case was convicted and imprisoned after a media process that was during 11 years. All the exculpatory documents disappeared from his court record. Since 4 years he has a ban to talk the press or to contact the board members of his association. He has a ban to travel and to work with associations fighting child abuse.

Khader Adnan is now for 66 days on hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial...
In a letter he gave to his lawyers for public release, Adnan explained why he was on hunger strike:
'The Israeli occupation has gone to extremes against our people, especially prisoners. I have been humiliated, beaten, and harassed by interrogators for no reason, and thus I swore to God I would fight the policy of administrative detention to which I and hundreds of my fellow prisoners fell prey ... The only thing I can do is offer my soul to God, as I believe righteousness and justice will eventually triumph over tyranny and oppression. I hereby assert that I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake as an individual, but for the sake of thousands of prisoners who are being deprived of their simplest human rights while the world and international community look on. It is time the international community and the UN support prisoners and force the State of Israel to respect international human rights and stop treating prisoners as if they were not humans'.

http://familiesfriendsassociation.blogspot.com/

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/if-not-gov...

http://www.ism-france.org/

http://www.imemc.org/newswire/prisoners

The Israeli government will break the movement for the liberation of Khadar Adnan now by spreading of false rumours. Do not stop the actions. Do not trust the Israeli authorities !
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Despite the Announcement of a Deal Limiting Khader Adnan’s Detention, Addameer Reiterates its Urgent Concern for His Health

Ramallah, 21 February 2012 – Khader Adnan’s hearing at the Israeli High Court was cancelled today, 21 February 2012, only minutes before the hearing was to take place. On Khader’s 66th day of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention and inhuman and degrading treatment by the Israeli authorities, one of Khader’s lawyers negotiated a deal with the Israeli military prosecutor that Khader will be released on 17 April instead of 8 May and that his administrative detention order will not be renewed. Addameer lawyer Samer Sam’an is actively working to gain permission to visit Khader to confirm whether or not he will continue with his hunger strike.

http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=444
Khader previously stated to Addameer lawyers that though he was calling for his immediate and unconditional release, the minimum requirements he would consider for ending his hunger strike would be the guarantee that he would not receive a new administrative detention order and that his duration of detention would be considered from the date of his arrest on 17 December 2011 and not from the date that he received his administrative detention order on 8 January 2012. The provisions of the deal reached today as announced by the lawyer involved do meet these minimum requirements. However, if new “secret material,” upon which administrative detention is based, presents itself during the next two months, there would still be grounds for the renewal of his administrative detention order. This caveat is consistent with similar deals made in the past, in which Israeli officials leave the door open for re-arrests.

Addameer maintains that the fact that Israeli officials negotiated the duration of his detention, in addition to agreeing to an early release, reveals that there were no grounds for his administrative detention in the first place. His administrative detention order, as is the case with all other administrative detainees, is based on the alleged threat he poses to the “security of the State of Israel.” However, if Israeli officials agree that he will not be a threat on 17 April, as clear from today’s deal, he surely does not pose any threat today and his case provides further proof of Israel’s policy of arbitrary detention. Addameer reiterates its call for his immediate and unconditional release and the release of the 308 other administrative detainees.

Addameer’s main concern remains Khader’s health, in critical condition after over two months of hunger strike. Whether or not Khader continues his hunger strike, he must receive proper arrangements for observing his health condition, which will likely now have irreversible consequences. If he does decide to end his hunger strike, the potential complications from such a protracted hunger strike will require urgent and trusted care, which can only be provided if he is released.

Addameer continues to salute Khader Adnan for his incredible steadfastness in challenging Israel’s policy of holding Palestinians in detention without charge or trial, which is in violation of international law. Addameer further thanks all individuals and institutions who have chosen not to ignore the basic human rights violations being committed against Palestinian prisoners on a daily basis and who have expressed their explicit support for Khader and his fellow prisoners. The date set for Khader’s release, 17 April, ironically falls on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which will serve as a reminder of the thousands of other Palestinian political prisoners who remain in Israeli detention.

Follow Addameer’s campaigns to release all Prisoners at Risk and immediately Stop Administrative Detention.

http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=444

Just read:

Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan ends 66-day hunger strike as Israel agrees to April release

JERUSALEM Feb 21, 2012 — A Palestinian prisoner has ended his 66-day hunger strike over his detention without charge under a deal that will see him released in April, Palestinian and Israeli officials told AFP on Tuesday.

“The Israeli court decided to release Khader Adnan on April 17 and based on that he ended his hunger strike,” Palestinian prisoner affairs minister Issa Qaraqaa said.

Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the agreement meant “if there’s no new evidence against him, he will be released from custody on April 17.”

Adnan’s lawyer Jawad Bulus also confirmed the deal, details of which were made public just hours before the Israeli Supreme Court was to hear an appeal against the prisoner’s detention without charge.

“There will be no extension of his administrative detention and he will be released on April 17,” Bulus told AFP.

The Israeli justice ministry confirmed that a deal had been signed, thereby ruling out the need for the hearing which had been due to start at 1300 GMT.

Adnan’s wife, Randa Mussa hailed the deal as a “victory” for her husband, whom medics said had lost more than 40% of his body weight over the past nine weeks.

“He forced the occupation to give in to his demands and I hope he returns safe to us,” she told AFP.

Adnan, 33, was detained on December 17 and began refusing food a day later to protest his detention without charge and his alleged mistreatment by interrogators.

His protest, already the longest hunger strike carried out by any Palestinian prisoner, has attracted international attention and thrown a spotlight on Israel’s use of administrative detention, a military procedure which allows suspects to be held without charge.

Israeli officials described Adnan as a “terrorist” from the radical Islamic Jihad movement, although he has never been charged with any offence, nor has any evidence against him been made public.

In January, a military court handed down a four-month administrative detention order against Adnan, which he appealed in an unusual court session earlier this month held at his hospital bed in northern Israel.

But a military court last week rejected his appeal, prompting Bulus to turn to Israel’s top court.

Doctors from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel who met with Adnan in recent days had warned that his health was failing and that he faced “immediate danger of death” if he continued to refuse food.

Rights groups have also condemned the conditions in which Adnan is being held at Ziv hospital in the northern town of Safed, where he is shackled to the bed by chains on both legs and on one arm.

His case has sparked demonstrations across the Palestinian territories, with thousands of people taking part in protests on Tuesday in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin, Hebron and Ramallah. A protest was also scheduled in Gaza City.

In Ramallah, shops shut down as part of a general strike in solidarity with Adnan, and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were also on hunger strike in support of the detainee.

Palestinian officials had warned that Adnan’s death in custody could spark a violent backlash, and a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said they were aware of the “implications” of such a development.

On Monday, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said he had sent a message to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and other top diplomats urging them to put pressure on Israel over the case.

“I asked them all to intervene in Adnan’s case. They must apply pressure on Israel to release him,” he told AFP.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/21/palestinian-priso...

Just read: An Israeli military court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Palestinian man on hunger strike for 58 days to have his jail term reduced, officials said. Lawyer Mahmoud Hassan said a military court judge refused the appeal and that his client, Khader Adnan, will be detained until May 8. A military spokeswoman confirmed the ruling and said Adnan will be expected to carry out the full four-month sentence. The spokeswoman spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.

Statement from the Family & Friends of Republican prisoners, Maghaberry

20 February 2012

On Wednesday 15th February, terminally ill republican prisoner Brian Shivers was brutally assaulted by prison staff while attending Belfast City Hospital.

Brian was informed at lunch time that he had an appointment with his cystic fibrosis consultant and was taken from his cell to attend the appointment. He was forcibly strip searched before leaving Maghaberry and taken to Belfast City Hospital escorted by four screws. The prison van they were travelling in was followed by an RUC/PSNI Jeep with four RUC/PSNI personnel carrying rifles on-board.

When arriving at Belfast City Hospital they were met by other prison staff who had not travelled in the van. Brian was then escorted by eight or nine screws to an office to await his consultant's arrival. During the wait there were two screws present, one of whom was handcuffed to Brian.

While waiting on his consultant Brian asked the screws present if he could have his consultation in private and he was told abruptly “No, we wont be leaving here” Brian told them that there was not much point in the consultation if he couldn't speak to his consultant in private and pointed out that there was no windows and up to nine screws guarding him. At that point, one of the screws present elbowed Brian in the face and said: “that's it you are going back to Maghaberry.” Brian was then trailed to the ground by the same screw with such force that the other screw who was handcuffed to him was brought down as well. He was then viciously assaulted and dragged out of the hospital in full view of members of the public. Brian was in complete agony due to the brutality he received. Throughout the return journey, Brian suffered excruciating pain from a slipped disc which was aggravated by the assault.

When he arrived back at Maghaberry he was met by a Governor who took a note from him of all that had happened during the hospital visit. Brian asked for painkillers and informed him that he wanted to phone his solicitor. Brian was then told that he would be strip searched again. Already bruised and battered and in excruciating pain due to the assault, Brian was forcibly strip searched by six screws. As a consequence, Brian was left in the holding cell unable to move. He repeatedly asked for painkillers which he never received.

Brian was then joined in the holding cell by a fellow republican prisoner, Brendan McConville, who was returning from court. Brendan, alarmed on seeing the state Brian was in, demanded that Brian be returned immediately to the wing. However, his requests were ignored. They both waited for up to an hour and then with Brendan's assistance Brian was brought back to his cell.

Brian has been left with bruises on his face and body and his previous back injury has been severely aggravated. He has been left bed ridden and relies on assistance to move around. To add insult to injury, Brian has since been charged with assaulting the screw who instigated the attack.

The Family & Friends group refrained from commenting on this brutal attack to allow time for the full facts to emerge and to allow Brian's legal team to prepare a case against Maghaberry.

We utterly condemn this brutal attack on a terminally ill republican prisoner and call for all those involved to be held accountable. We demand assurances from Maghaberry and David Ford that Brian will be able to attend his many future hospital appointments without fear of a repeat of the brutality inflicted upon him by the thuggish screws employed by Maghaberry.

Mandy Duffy PRO

Family & Friends of Republican Prisoners Maghaberry.

http://familiesfriendsassociation.blogspot.com/2012/02/kh...

Marcel Vervloesem, the Belgian activist who revealed the Zandvoort childporn ring case, was accused and locked up in prison again while he is very sick (heart surgeries, cancer surgery, diabetes

kidney dyalyse 3 x a week, cancer).

The Belgian Justice which is very strong related with the pedo-mafia, wants his death.

During the past 14 years, Belgian Justice and pedo-mafia used always the same system: a story in the press, false accusations, complaints, police, justice, media-campaign, persecution and sentenced without a real investigation, locked up in prison, isolated and tortured...

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You can write him on this address: Gevangenis Turnhout (= Prison of Turnhout), t.v.a. Marcel Vervloesem, Cel 139, Wezenstraat 1, 2300 Turnhout (Belgium).

We need an international action !

Some days ago Marcel could't phone his daughter. Today the letters of his daughter and friends seem to be blocked.

We contact the Belgian Minister of Justice, Annemie Turtelboom, again who advocated an 'impartiality of the magistracy in judicial affairs''...

Tout le monde qui veut aider le Werkgroep Morkhoven dans sa lutte contre les réseaux pédophiles (dont l'existence reste nié par les authorités belges), peut aider par publier et diffuser les messages, traduire les articles et écrire à Marcel Vervloesem si sa correspondance n'est pas bloquée.

Son adresse: Gevangenis Turnhout, t.a.v. Marcel Vervloesem, Cel 139, 2300 Turnhout.

Aujourd'hui, la fille de Marcel Vervloesem qui n'est jamais interviewé par les tabloids belges qui mènent pendant 14 ans un procès de média contre Marcel Vervloesem et le Werkgroep Morkhoven pour étouffer l'affaire Zandvoort (90.000 victims dont des bébés), nous disait que sa père ne le peut plus contacter pendant 2 jours. C'est clair que la Justice belge veut isoler Marcel Vervloesem qui n'a pas le droit de se défendre.

Espérons que la prison ne change pas le numéro de la cellule de Marcel, comme c'est l'habitude dans la prison de Bruges...

Photo: Marcel Vervloesem pendant un hospitalisation il y a quelques années. Le ministre de la Justice belge, Annemie Turtelboom (Parti libérale), est au courant de sa situation médicale (opérations du coeur, 3 x par semaine un dialyze des reins, gravement diabète, opéré pour un cancer etc.). Le Ministre prétend de 'lutter la partialité de la magistrature dans le cadre d'un nouveau déontologie'. Mais Turtelboom semble soutenir ce nouveau procès de média contre Marcel Vervloesem, sa famille et le Werkgroep Morkhoven. Comme ministre de la justice, elle est responsable pour cette nouvelle situation.

Camps d’exterminations: l’UE a adopté le conflit irlandais

24 juillet 2011

Brendon Lillis est un détenu politique irlandais, qualifié de « terroriste » selon la notion nazie du terme, qui désigne les faits de résistance à l’occupation, alors que le terme original date de 1798 et désignait un mode de gouvernement. C’est le cas de l’Angleterre, qui qualifie de « terroriste » tout irlandais qui conteste aux anglais la possibilité de résoudre l’inégalité entre catholiques et protestants en envoyant des soldats plutôt que des diplomates.

La manipulation de l’information est telle qu’en 1975, quand des professeurs ont demandé à des jeunes anglaises une dissertation sur la nécessité de maintenir l’armée anglaise en Irlande, elles ont répondu que oui, parce qu’il fallait protéger les irlandais d’une menace d’invasion par la Russie !

Brendon Lillis a été condamné en 1977 à la détention a perpétuité pour possession d’armes et d’explosifs, pour une intention de dire aux anglais de rentrer chez eux. Il n’a été libéré qu’en 1992, au bout de près de 16 ans. C’est un secrétaire d’état anglais pour l’Irlande du nord qui a réactivé sa condamnation à vie en 2009, alors qu’il devait répondre d’un vol.

Brandon Lillis souffre de spondylarthrite ankylosante, une maladie par laquelle le corps fait une surproduction de masse osseuse. Il est entièrement paralysé, nourri par un tube depuis près de deux ans. Il est malgré tout maintenu en détention sur base d’une « intention » vieille de 34 ans qu’il n’est clairement plus en état de mettre en oeuvre. Il est isolé parce qu’il n’est plus capable de se lever pour s’assoire dans une chaise roulante et trop faible pour soulever un téléphone. Le ministre de la justice dit qu’il représente toujours un danger pour la société et le ministre de la santé le prétend en bonne santé.

Les eurodéputés, le « Comité contre les Torture » de l’ONU et les divers organismes des droits de l’homme subsidiés par l’UE ne prétendent pas intervenir, exactement comme dans tous les cas de détention politique en Europe. Leur comportement fait apparaître que l’UE a adopté le conflit irlandais dans le plan pour provoquer des tentions, afin formater les esprits à accepter un cadre légal aux tortures pour les « prisonniers très dangereux. »

Le plus écoeurant sont les politiciens irlandais qui n’hésitent par à fermer les yeux sur des traitement inhumains à un irlandais, à l’origine, sur base d’une discrimination religieuse. Les curés et les pasteurs ne pourraient-ils expliquer aux petites anglaises qu’il n’est pas chrétien de torturer des détenus sous prétexte de les protéger d’une invasion russe ?

http://fondation.princessedecroy.droitfondamental.eu/word...

Date: Thu, 2011-07-21

Roisin Allsop, partner of political prisoner is to begin a 3 day hunger strike along with supporters tomorrow in West Belfast to highlight his case and demand his release based on humanitarian grounds. A meeting was also held this week in Derry attended by over 200 people to highlight ongoing state repression and brutality on the inside. Protests are also taking place across Ireland and in London.

Below is a press release released on behalf of Brendan Lillis

‘Brendan Lillis is currently a prisoner in Maghaberry Prison where he is serving a sentence for explosive offences in 1976. Brendan suffers from the condition ankylosing spondylitis and has been confined to bed for the best part of the past two years.

Brendan Lillis is no threat to anybody. Brendan Lillis is dying and has been abandoned by an entire political system which is more interested in making statements about his condition than in applying their political power to remedy the situation.

We call for the immediate release of Brendan Lillis to his partner Roisin so that whatever time Brendan has left on this earth be spent with his immediate family.

Brendan Lillis can not walk; he can not get up from his bed. He is incapacitated, and he is being left alone to die in a prison cell. We have seen enough of our people die in prison cells and find the manner in which Brendan is being treated as an obscenity.

A hunger strike in support of Brendan Lillis will commence this Thursday 21st July at the site of the old Andersonstown Barracks, Belfast. Roisin Lynch, partner of Brendan Lillis will be joined by old comrades of Brendan’s from the Blanket protest days and other former prisoners and concerned individuals. The action is designed to highlight Brendan’s case and the lack of any movement in securing his release from the politicians who know Brendan and knew him as a Blanketman.

Time is fast running out for Brendan Lillis and he should be released immediately.

We call on all people concerned with this grave injustice to come along on Thursday, Friday or Saturday and register your support for a sick and dying man being held hostage by a vindictive and punitive regime.’

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Brendan Lillis: BBC Radio Foyle discussion including a contribution from Roisin Allsop

Here is the link to listen to this again.

Click on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b012m7nh

Then go forward to 1:05:05

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On 14-7-11 Roisin Lynch, partner of Brendan Lillis, spoke at a meeting in Pilot’s Row Derry - Release Brendan Lillis – YouTube - http://youtu.be/xPlrXlHcyIo

Become member of the group Friends of Brendan Lillis:
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Sign the petition: www.petitionspot.com/petitions/releaseBrendylilli

Ms Campbell Speech Andytown – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCt1DyQv0bQ&feature=r...

Gerard Hogkins Speech Andytown – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuRjhWg1hXE&feature=r...

Roisin’s Speech Andytown – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVDu_fnKtE

Derry Journal 23rd July – http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local/families_support_...

Belfast 32 – http://belfast32.blogspot.com/2011/07/72-hour-fast-for-b...

Utv Latest from Andytown – http://www.u.tv/utvplayer/video/138104/113062

Republican Socialist News – http://www.irsp.ie/news/?p=344

Belfast Telegraph – http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/no...

Eirigi Statement – http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest220711.html

Prisoners Action Group – http://prisoners-action-group.skynetblogs.be/archive/201...

From Corsica – http://infurmazione.unita-naziunale.org/5016/brendan-lil...

WorkersSolidarityMovement – http://www.wsm.ie/c/brendan-lillis-partner-solidarity-hu...

IrishFreedomCommittee – http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/POWs/BRENDAN_LILLIS...

HumanRightsGroup – http://humanrightsgroup.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/norther...

UTV 21st July – http://www.u.tv/News/Blanketmen-join-call-for-prisoners-...

IrishCentral.com New York – http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Northern-Ireland-man-he...

Prisoners Action Group – http://prisoners-action-group.skynetblogs.be/archive/201...

SocialistWorker.org – http://www.www.socialistworker.org/2011/07/21/let-brenda...

The Pensive Quill 20th July – http://thepensivequill.am/2011/07/on-bridge-of-peace.htm...

BeforeitsNews.com – http://beforeitsnews.com/story/767/127/Irish_Prisoner_Fa...

U.105 News – http://www.u105.com/LocalNews/Hunger-strike-over-Maghabe...

Derry Journal 19th July – http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local/hunger_strike_at_...

The Irish Observer – http://theirishobserver.blogspot.com/2011/07/brenda-lill...

Workers Solidarity Movement – http://www.wsm.ie/c/release-brendan-lillis-now

Hub Pages iskra1916 – http://iskra1916.hubpages.com/hub/Brendan-Lillis-Irish-P...

Human Rights Movement Belgium – http://mensenrechten-droits-de-lhomme.skynetblogs.be/arc...

Derry 32 csm – http://www.derry32csm.com/

IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWS – http://republican-news.org/current/news/2011/07/blanketm...

Human Rights Group – http://humanrightsgroup.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/norther...

Derry Sinn Fein – http://www.derrysinnfein.ie/news/20196

SDLP – http://www.sdlp.ie/index.php/newsroom_media/newsarticle/...

The Pensive Quill aka Anthony McIntyre – http://thepensivequill.am/2011/07/brendan-lillis-press-r...

WordPress – http://prisonsofshame.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/brendan-l...

Troops Out Movement – http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/campaigns.htm

Organised Rage Blog – http://www.organizedrage.com/2011/07/brendan-lillis-pres...

UTV – http://www.u.tv/News/Hunger-strike-over-Maghaberry-inmat...

Audio from Pilots Row meeting – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlrXlHcyIo&feature=y...

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Brendan Lillis, a 59 year old former Life-sentence political prisoner from West Belfast, in Ireland, is currently desperately ill in the medical wing of the notorious Maghaberry prison, in County Antrim. He suffers from the intensely painful and progressive disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis which due to other medical complications has left himunable to move from his bed for 14 months and his weight has dropped to a perilous 6 stones (38.1 Kilos !). Due to a series of serious infections and medication which has compromised his immune system, Mr Lillis has been unable to eat, sleep or hold down even liquids for a period close to a month and is constant agony. In short, his health has deteriorated to such an extent that his partner Roisin, who is his only contact with the outside world, fears that he will die in his prison bed!

Photo: Brendan Lillis, Maghaberry prison, Northern Ireland

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A 3 day hungerstrike today, Thursday the 21st, at 12PM at the old site of Anderstown Police Station (the old Andersonstown Barracks). Everyone around Belfast, please go to the hunger strike today. Take some folding chairs, help pass out flyers and show support for the government of the North of Ireland to treat Brendan Lillis in a humane manner. Update: the white line picket for brendan lillis is tomorrow night "FRIDAY" at 7 and the public meeting is saturday also at 7.pm at the site of the old andersontown police station.

A 3 day fast and camp out will take place at Free Derry corner from 10pm tomorrow, Thursday 21st July, in conjunction and solidarity with the Belfast fast being undertaken by Roisin Lynch and friends. No party or organisational logos will be used and we hope this would appeal to all concerned with the wellbeing of Brendan Lillis to be able to partake. All welcome. GRMA

Cork protest tomorrow. West Belfast Hunger Strike in Support of Brendan Lillis (TOM News 18/07/11). Protest and hunger strike at Guildhall @1.00pm 2moro Thursday (not yet confirmed)

American Hunger Strike in support of Brendan Lillis Location: United States Time: 12:00PM

Thursday, July 21st Diarmuid Breatnach Call a cross-party picket of the British Embassy or in O'Connell St.

The American event is online, and the facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193297174057118 (tweeted: #US4Brendan and #FreeBrendanLillis)

Candlelight Vigil in support of Brendan Lillis Location: Glasgow cross Time: 10:00PM Thursday, July 21st

There are now ‎925 signatures on one petition, and 63 on the other.

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Links:

BBC interview with Brendan Lillis’ partner Roisin Lynch (18.7.2011):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_foyle#freshSignin=true or click on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b012m7nh
Then go forward to 1:05:05 – 7 days left to listen again

On 14-7-11 Roisin Lynch, partner of Brendan Lillis, spoke at a meeting in Pilot’s Row Derry.
Release Brendan Lillis – YouTube - http://youtu.be/xPlrXlHcyIo

Sign the petition:
www.petitionspot.com/petitions/releaseBrendylilli

Become member of the group Friends of Brendan Lillis:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Friends.Of.Brendan.Lillis?ref=ts

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