From The Committee For International Labor Defense-Israel Free Salah Hamouri!
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:
August 30, 2017
The
Committee for International Labor Defense joins with the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human
Rights Association, the French Communist Party, and the European United Left /
Nordic Green Left of the European Parliament, in calling on Israeli authorities
to release field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri, 32, who has received a six month administrative
detention order.
Hamouri, a
Palestinian-French dual citizen was arrested in a pre-dawn raid on his home
last Wednesday, August 16, 2017, by the Israeli army.
The Israeli
practice of arbitrary detention is a grave violation of international laws and
human rights standards, particularly articles 78 and 72 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention which state that an accused individual has the right to defend
himself or herself. Hamouri’s administrative detention also violates article 66
of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the basic standards of fair trial.
This case
is not simply the arrest of an individual. It is part of a systematic policy of
oppression and exploitation on the part of the Israeli government against the
Palestinian people, and as such, it should not be tolerated by the working
people of either country who are the basis of their societies and economies.
We join
with organizations, activists, and parliamentarians across Europe and the
Middle East who are mobilizing to demand Hamouri's freedom and to pressure the
French government to take action on this case.
The
Committee for International Labor Defense urges French president Emanuel Macron
and European officials to act now to demand Hamouri’s release.
The
Committee for International Labor Defense entrusts the safety and good health
of Salah Hamouri, and the hundreds of other Palestinian political prisoners held
at Al-Moskobyeh and other detention centers, in the hands of Israeli
government.
Finally,
we call on organized labor in Palestine, Israel and other countries to rise up
and defend the human rights of those detained by the Israeli authorities, and
especially Salah Hamouri and his comrades.
Signed,
THE COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL
LABOR DEFENSE
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