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International Middle East Media Center
May 21, 2017
The media committee of the prisoners' strike said, on Saturday evening, that detainee Samer Al-Issawi was taken from Ayalon to the Ramla prison clinic after a deterioration his health. Samer served 10 years in the Israeli prison system and became an internationally recognized icon for the prioners'ÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
April 20, 2017
Activists demonstrate solidarity with Samer Issawi and other Palestinian political prisoners, in Damascus gate,. Activists demonstrate solidarity with Samer Issawi and other Palestinian political prisoners, Jerusalem, March 12, 2013. Although the hunger strike will have to prove its durability in the comingÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
November 7, 2016
Samer Issawi and Munther Snawbar refused food for 11 days in solidarity with the female prisoners, who must endure grueling, days-long transfers to hearings at Israeli military courts. According to the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs, the other demands raised by Issawi and Snawbar, includingÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
June 23, 2014
The former Palestinian political prisoner and hunger striker Samer Issawi was detained by Israeli occupation forces on Monday night, according to his family. Shortly before 7:00pm, Layla Issawi, his mother, posted a Facebook status: “Tens of Israeli army officers are in front of our house passing out tickets toÃÂ ...
al-Akhbar English
January 1, 2014
... have several hours to correct yourself. tomorrow it will be too late. reply. Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2014-01-01 23:15. samer issawi is affiliated with the dflp. look it up and tell me how you figure that a member of such a left-wing secular group could be "infested with wahabi ideology".
Haaretz
December 23, 2013
The Israeli Prison Service released Monday Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi, known for his eight-month-long hunger strike and the public campaign against his administrative detention. Issawi, who was one of the 1,027 prisoners released from Israeli prison in the deal for the freedom of Gilad Shalit, wasÃÂ ...
Fight Back! Newspaper
March 22, 2013
Gainesville, FL – On March 21, Palestine solidarity activists came together on the University of Florida campus to protest inhumane Israeli prison conditions and the mistreatment of political prisoner Samer Issawi. In the middle of a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike, students sat in the center of Turlington plazaÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
Palestinian hunger striking prisoner Samer Issawi has agreed to end his hunger strike, and will be released to his home Jerusalem in eight months' time, Reuters reported late Monday night. The details of the deal were not immediately clear, but Issawi has insisted all along that he would not agree to beÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
July 15, 2017
Issawi is the sister of former long-term hunger striker and re-imprisoned released prisoner Samer Issawi as well as her brother Medhat Issawi,ÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
May 21, 2017
The media committee of the prisoners' strike said, on Saturday evening, that detainee Samer Al-Issawi was taken from Ayalon to the RamlaÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
November 7, 2016
Samer Issawi and Munther Snawbar refused food for 11 days in solidarity with the female prisoners, who must endure grueling, days-longÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
June 23, 2014
The former Palestinian political prisoner and hunger striker Samer Issawi was detained by Israeli occupation forces on Monday night, accordingÃÂ ...
al-Akhbar English
January 1, 2014
Al-Akhbar is currently going through a transitional phase whereby the English website is available for Archival purposes only. All new contentÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 10, 2013
As the rain pounds continuously and the winds howl uncontrollably, Samer Issawi dominates my mind. I think back to my 24 hours of hungerÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
After staging an intermittent hunger strike for some nine months, hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi agreed to start eating again,ÃÂ ...
Press TV
April 29, 2016
... us or release us, otherwise many of them went into hunger strikes and we know very well-known incidents of Khader Adnan and Samer Issawi and also Mohammed al-Qeeq and now we have Janazrah who have been on hunger strike for the same reason.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
March 8, 2016
Shireen rose to international prominence when she served as the spokesperson for her brother, Samer Issawi, during his lengthy hunger strikes in 2012 and 2013.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 18, 2016
They include Samer Issawi, who stopped eating five days ago in solidarity with al-Qiq. Issawi and his sister, the lawyer Shireen Issawi, are both currently in administrative detention.
Al-Monitor
February 16, 2016
Unlike Samer Issawi and other Palestinian hunger strikers, he refuses to take any salt or mineral supplements. He will not accept any medical care and refuses to even be seen by a doctor, fearing that it could interfere with his protest.
