by: Women`s Affairs Technical CommitteePalestinian women have played a key role throughout the struggle for independence over the long years of Israeli occupation. As a result, many women have been arrested, for political reasons, held in solitary confinement, forced to give birth in their prison cells, tortured, verbally and sexually abused and threatened. Many are held among Israeli criminal prisoners, as well. They have been subjected to extreme brutal and violent conditions, deprived of basic human needs and prisoner`s rights, contradicting by this major international declarations, agreements and principles.Despite harsh conditions, Palestinian women prisoners have shown strength, perseverance, internal unity and solidarity. Before the outbreak of the current Intifada, the number of … [read more]

by: TAYAD Families, November 13, 2001 A second attack was carried out in Kucuk Armutlu, that is the centre of our Death Fast resistance outside the prisons, in order to continue the F-type prisons policy. The state concentrated on the neighbourhood grossly with its police, military, special team and armoured vehicles starting from 530 in the morning. They launched the attack at 630 am. They had planned to carry out the massacre without press coverage so that the bloody scenes are not revealed. . The Death Fast resisters; GAMZE TURAN, FERHAT ERTÜRK, ÖZKAN GÜZEL, HÜSEYIN AKPINAR, MADIMAK ÖZEN, and their aids SELMA KUBAT, VEDAT ÇELIK and tens of others that we could not get their names were detained.The state is responding to the demands of our sons and daughters with massacres and … [read more]