The nonviolent resistance of Ahmad Sa’adat has garnered a vengeful response, a prisoner affairs expert said today. Abdel Nasser Ferwana says that the life of the leftist leader is in danger at the hands of the Israeli prison administration.
A week ago Sa’adat, the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, ended a nine day hunger strike from his isolated cell in Israeli prison. Sa’adat has been in solitary confinement for three months. Communication is so difficult that the news of the end of his hunger strike did not surface until days later.
He has not been allowed to see his children for four years. Sa’adat was imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority in Jericho as part of a deal with the Israelis who stormed the eastern West Bank jail and kidnapped him in 2006. Full story
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