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Iederéén vraagt zich af hoe het met Marcel Vervloesem is.

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De laatste tijd zijn er enkele verbeteringen in zijn situatie vast te stellen.
Dat komt dank zij de inspanningen van de Antwerpse strafuitvoeringsrechtbank.   

We weten welke rol de correctionele rechtbank van Turnhout en het Hof van Beroep te Antwerpen in de zaak Vervloesem (en de daaraan verbonden kinderpornozaak Zandvoort) hebben gespeeld maar Ere wie Ere toekomt. En indien bepaalde rechters correct trachten te handelen, dan moet dit ook gezegd kunnen worden.

Zijn gezondheidstoestand (hart, nieren, suikerziekte, sluimerende kanker,) is er door de psychische en lichamelijke folterpraktijken die door bepaalde gevangenisdirecties en de autoriteiten te Brussel werden toegestaan, niet direct op verbeterd.

Marcel Vervloesem loopt al maandenlang de kans op een niercrisis en het is een mirakel dat die er nog niet gekomen is.  Hij krijgt nu de zwaarste medicatie voorgeschreven maar zijn benen en voeten steken al wekenlang vol water.  Een niercrisis betekent dat hij voor de rest van zijn leven afhankelijk zal zijn van een nierdialyze-toestel, wat ook een weerslag zal hebben op de werking van zijn hart.
Een half jaar geleden diende hij in het AZ Sint-Jan te Brugge nog een zware open-hart-operatie te ondergaan waarbij hij over de hele lengte van zijn borstbeen moest opengesneden worden.

Terwijl, zoals gezegd, de strafuitvoeringsrechtbank van Antwerpen haar best lijkt te doen, zijn er bepaalde diensten die doorgaan met hun pesterijen.  Brieven van het ziekenfonds, de Universitaire Instelling te Antwerpen en van vienden werden onlangs weer achtergehouden.

Dat is al 2 jaar aan de gang.  Minister van Justitie Stefaan De Clerck (CD&V) en zijn diensten te Brussel, worden door Vervloesem's advocaat en mijzelf daarover al 2 jaar lang aangeschreven zonder dat er iets verandert.  Dat bewijst dat de Minister en zijn diensten dit soort praktijken toelaten.  Misschien heeft dit ondermeer te maken met de kinderpornozaak Zandvoort en de door de Hoge Raad van Justitie in 2008 erkende verdwijning van de 7 kinderporno-cd-roms uit de zaak Zandvoort op het Hof van Beroep te Antwerpen.  Ook de door de Hoge Raad voor Justitie erkende verdwijning van de ontlastende stukken uit Vervloesem's strafdossier op het gerechtshof te Turnhout, zal daar ongetwijfeld in meespelen.

Er zijn ook voortdurende problemen met de transferts van Marcel Vervloesem naar de gevangenis van Hasselt.  Hij moet daar regelmatig voor de strafuitvoeringsrechtbank komen.  De zitting duurt hooguit een uurtje.  Maar in tegenstelling tot de andere gevangenen, blijft Marcel Vervloesem drie of vier weken geisoleerd in de gevangenis van Hasselt omdat het terugbrengen naar de gevangenis van Turnhout steeds fout loopt.  Dat gaat gepaard met het verdwijnen van brieven, moeilijkheden met telefoneren en bezoeken, het steeds veranderen van het celnummer bij zijn terugkomst in de gevangenis van Turnhout enzoverder.  Marcel Vervloesem krijgt in de gevangenis van Hasselt ook niet de nodige medische behandeling en de stress die dit alles meebrengt, betekent telkens een aanslag op zijn reeds geruineerde gezondheid.

Ook in deze zaak werden De Clerck en zijn diensten reeds een tiental keren aangeschreven. Er komt echter geen antwoord op de brieven en de toestand blijft ongewijzigd.  Dat bewijst dat De Clerck en zijn diensten te Brussel, deze zaken bewust laten aanslepen en de bedoeling hebben om de beslissingen van de Antwerpse strafuitvoeringsrechtbank te blokkeren.  

Maar het kan ook zijn dat dit de manier is waarop De Clerck zijn 'hervorming van de Justitie' wil realiseren.  

Op zijn website preekt De Clerck immers ook een 'rechtvaardige en menselijke justitie'.

En het is mogelijk dat hij, zoals we dat van zijn partij gewoon zijn, zijn doelstellingen tracht te bereiken door juist het omgekeerde te doen van wat nodig is... 

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- Kinderpornozaak Zandvoort
- Justitie Turnhout
- Open Brief Procureur-Generaal
- Zoé Genot cd-roms Zandvoort
- Droit Fondamental – (French, English, Italian)
- Website Morkhoven (English, French, Italian, Dutch)
- Video ‘Marcel Vervloesem, hymne de la Résistance’
- Vervloesem maart 1998 deel1
- Faits divers April 1998 - Temse/Madeira netwerk - nederlandstalige ondertiteling
- Video's: ultjecrumpie 1
- Video's: Ultjecrumpie 2

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De foto van Minister De Clerck in dit bericht was, na publikatie, niet meer te zien. Dat was ook het ook het geval met de afbeelding van het ziekenhuisbed waaraan aktievoerder Marcel Vervloesem die nu al 2 jaar lang in de gevangenis is opgesloten, tijdens zijn spoedopnames en operaties gedurende 591 uren werd vastgeketend.  Bij de problemen met onze skynetblogs, werden ook de afbeeldingen die te maken hadden met onze berichten over de explosieve toestand in het Midden-oosten onzichtbaar.   De Minister en zijn diensten zouden misschien beter werk maken van een onderzoek in de kinderpornozaak Zandvoort; een onderzoek naar de verdwijning van de 7 kinderporno-cd-roms Zandvoort op het gerechtshof te Antwerpen; een onderzoek naar de door de Hoge Raad voor de Justitie eveneens erkende verdwijning van de ontlastende stukken uit het strafdossier van Marcel Vervloesem op het gerechtshof te Turnhout; een onderzoek inzake de 30 processsen-verbaals van zedenfeiten met jongetjes waarin de hoofdaanklager van Marcel Vervloesem wordt genoemd; een onderzoek naar de jeugdmagistraat die op één van de foto's van de kinderpornozaak Zandvoort voorkomt; een onderzoek naar de nu al twee jaar durende problemen met de briefwisseling en de transferts van Marcel Vervloesem; een onderzoek naar de gezondheid van Marcel Vervloesem die reeds een half jaar een niercrisis riskeert en wiens benen en voeten opgeblazen zijn van het water dat geen uitweg vindt; een onderzoek naar het blokkeren van de beslissingen van de Antwerpse strafuitvoeringsrechtbank die zich vrij correct probeert op te stellen.

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Brussel, 24 juni 2010

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Geachte Heer,

Betreft: klacht bij Skynet

Ik heb reeds een week lang problemen met deze skynetblog.

Foto's die gedesactiveerd worden. Artikels die nu blijken te verdwijnen. De onmogelijkheid om nog bepaalde zaken te publiceren.

Er zijn ook zaken over de Werkgroep Morkhoven verdwenen (ondermeer de foto van het ziekenhuisbed waaraan Marcel Vervloesem van onze vereniging gedurende 591 uren vastgeketend lag gedurende zijn operaties). 
Dat zou erop kunnen wijzen dat de Belgische justitiediensten te Brussel en de federale politie die zopas de website van Prinses Jacqueline de Croÿ bezocht, weer mee achter de zaak zitten.
Het is trouwens ook zo dat Marcel Vervloesem al maandenlang met nierproblemen kampt die tot een niercrisis en een blijvende nierdialyze (toestel) kunnen leiden. Zijn benen en voeten zijn al maandenlang opgezwollen van het water, in die mate dat, als je op het been drukt, je vingerafdruk er gewoon in blijft staan.
Ik schreef hierover reeds een 20-tal keren naar justitieminister Stefaan De Clerck en zijn diensten maar die schijnen er een soort plezier in te vinden.
Zij beäntwoorden mijn brieven niet en de situatie blijft onveranderd.
Ik heb de minister en zijn diensten ook reeds een 20-tal aangeschreven inzake de briefwisseling van Marcel Vervloesem die al 2 jaar lang regelmatig geblokkeerd wordt zonder dat er een oplossing wordt gevonden. Brieven van het ziekenfonds die verdwijnen, brieven van professor Cosyns en de Universitaire kliniek te Antwerpen die verdwijnen, brieven van vrienden met foto's die verdwijnen, enzoverder.
En dan is er het probleem met de transferts.
Marcel Vervloesem is reeds tien keer getransfereerd naar een andere gevangenis (Leuven, Sint-Gillis, Hasselt) en telkens zijn deze transferts verkeerd gelopen. De 9 keren dat hij naar de gevangenis van Hasselt getransfereerd werd, gebeurde telkens voor een zitting van de strafuitvoeringsrechtbank te Antwerpen die amper een uurtje duurde.
Maar telkens als hij naar de gevangenis van Hasselt wordt getransfereerd, loopt alles in het honderd. Marcel Vervloesem blijft, in tegenstelling tot alle andere gevangenen die na een week reeds terug naar hun gevangenis van herkomst gebracht zijn, gedurende soms 4 weken in de gevangenis van Hasselt vastzitten. Het komt eigenlijk neer op een isolatie en betekent een ware foltering voor hem maar, zoals gezegd, zijn er bepaalde diensten in Brussel die daar plezier in scheppen. Het zijn misschien de personen die ook een pervers plezier beleven aan het misbruiken van kinderen en die betrokken zijn in de kinderpornozaak Zandvoort die door Marcel Vervloesem werd onthuld. Misschien zijn het dezelfde personen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de verdwijningen van de 7 kinderporno-cd-roms Zandvoort op het justitiepaleis te Antwerpen en van de ontlastende stukken uit het strafdossier van Marcel Vervloesem op het gerechtshof te Turnhout. Verdwijningen die door de Minister en zijn diensten worden dichtgedekt.
Telkens Marcel Vervloesem 4 weken lang in de gevangenis van Hasselt geisoleerd wordt, verliest hij het contact met gedetineerden en de cipiers van de gevangenis van Turnhout; worden zijn brieven achtergehouden omdat hij zich op een ander adres bevindt; heeft hij problemen met te schrijven en te telefoneren omdat zijn geld op de rekening van de gevangenis van Turnhout blijft staan; heeft hij problemen met zijn bezoek omdat de mensen niet weten wanneer hij precies naar de gevangenis van Turnhout terugkeert; wordt het bezoek (zoals dat bij ons in de gevangenis van Sint-Gillis gebeurde) onverwachts geweigerd omdat men 'geen bewijs van goed gedrag en zeden kan voorleggen' en de gevangenisreglementen en bezoekregelingen plotseling 'overal verschillend zijn'; wordt hem de nodige medische verzorging (hart, suikerziekte, nieren,) ontzegd; windt hij er zich zodanig door op dat hij er nog zieker van wordt en ook vaak depressief is; worden de beslissingen van de strafuitvoeringsrechtbank te Antwerpen die vrij positief te noemen zijn, op een geraffineerde manier teniet gedaan; wordt hij op een andere cel geplaatst als hij na 4 weken terug in de gevangenis van Turnhout arriveert, waardoor mensen weer niet in staat zijn om hem te schrijven en er opnieuw brieven kunnen worden achtergehouden; neemt het weer verschillende dagen in beslag voordat alles in de gevangenis van Turnhout weer geregeld is, enzoverder, enzoverder.
We begrijpen dat de personen die Marcel Vervloesem sinds 2006 een spreekverbod met de pers hebben opgelegd - naast het sadistisch genot dat zij beleven aan het mishandelen en folteren van zieke gevangenen - blijven hopen dat Marcel Vervloesem in de gevangenis sterft maar wij vinden de goedkeuring ervan door Minister De Clerck zelf, die de 'rechtvaardigheid' en 'menselijkheid' preekt, een ministerschap onwaardig.
De Minister gedraagt zich als een medeplichtige misdadiger door dergelijke zaken toe te staan.

In de hoop dat de problemen met onze skynetblog snel opgelost geraken, en in afwachting van uw antwoord, teken ik,

Hoogachtend,

Jan Boeykens, Faiderstraat 10, 1060 Sint-Gillis
Voorzitter vzw Werkgroep Morkhoven

PS. Omdat deze feiten zeer ernstig zijn en we niet meer op onze skynetblog blijken te kunnen rekenen, zenden we deze brief rond, zullen we hem laten vertalen en zullen we hem overal publiceren.

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- Sluiting skynetblogs Werkgroep Morkhoven
- Kinderpornonetwerk Zandvoort
- Kinderpornozaak Zandvoort
- Justitie Turnhout
- Open Brief Procureur-Generaal
- Zoé Genot cd-roms Zandvoort
- Droit Fondamental – (French, English, Italian)
- Website Morkhoven (English, French, Italian, Dutch)
- Video ‘Marcel Vervloesem, hymne de la Résistance’
- Vervloesem maart 1998 deel1
- Faits divers April 1998 - Temse/Madeira netwerk - nederlandstalige ondertiteling
- Video's: ultjecrumpie 1
- Video's: Ultjecrumpie 2

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NEW WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WELL PREPARED PROVOCATION

Israel and the U.S.A. used the scandalous attack on the Gaza flotilla on 31 May 2010 and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 on 9 June 2010, to provoke the arabian states, the Islamic World and Iran.
Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon were against the additional sanctions and said that the sanctions were a 'failure of diplomacy'.
As expected, on 17 June, during the heads of state and government leaders, the European Council and the european countries approved the new sanctions against Iran. They played the game.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticised the unilateral US and EU sanctions on Iran that go beyond those approved by the UN Security Council. But following months of US-led 'diplomacy', Russia agreed.

Let us hope that international protests will stop these new war crimes of Israel and Washington...

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/sc9948.doc.htm
http://www.europa-eu-un.org/articles/fr/article_9871_fr.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10348630.stm

Jan Boeykens 

 

Persecution of Palestinian citizens recalls S. Africa apartheid repression
Adri Nieuwhof and Bangani Ngeleza, The Electronic Intifada, 19 May 2010

 

A South African is carried away after being injured by police at an anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Province, 1985. (UN Photo) Two weeks after Israel imposed a travel ban on him, Ameer Makhoul, a well-respected Palestinian leader holding Israeli citizenship, was kidnapped from his home on 6 May in the middle of the night. The persecution of Makhoul brings back memories of the South Africa apartheid regime: he has been heldincommunicado and was not allowed access to his lawyer for two weeks; a court order prohibited publication of any information on the case against Makhoul for 90 days; and the so-called evidence justifying the “security charges” against Makhoul remains secret. During the South Africa anti-apartheid movement, similar tactics were used against those advocating for freedom and equal rights, who were accused of terrorism and having links with the Soviet Union. The detention of Ameer Makhoul follows a wave of repression of Palestinian leaders and activists resisting the occupation in the West Bank, and he is not the only Palestinian community leader in Israel to be receiving such treatment. Internationally-renowned pharmacologist Dr. Omar Said was detained two weeks before Makhoul and a gag order was used to silence the media. Detentions and gag orders are imposed by Israel to intimidate and harass those who speak out and campaign for freedom and equal rights. The secrecy around the detention of Makhoul and Said is disturbing, because there is no way to determine if their rights are being respected, and human rights organizations have documented Israel’s systematic abuse of Palestinian political prisoners’ rights. Makhoul wasn’t even present for the closed-door hearing at the Petach Tikva court during which his detention was extended. Meanwhile, Said has been subjected to continuous interrogation and allowed a very limited amount of sleep since his arrest on 24 April. Makhoul’s attorneys suspect that Makhoul was subject to torture during the 12 days he was prevented from meeting with his legal defense team, and the lawyers’ request for the court to release Makhoul’s medical records was refused. The gag order prevents the Israeli press from exposing the secret “evidence” behind Israel’s espionage allegations against Makhoul and Said. Similar accusations drove former Knesset member and community leader Azmi Bishara into self-imposed exile to avoid ending up in prison. Hussein Abu Hussein, a lawyer who has defended several Palestinians in Israel against charges of spying, told the Israeli daily Haaretz that espionage laws in Israel were so wide-ranging that an Internet chat or telephone conversation with anyone in an “enemy state” could lead to prosecution. However, Israel’s strategy of branding the Palestinian struggle for freedom and equal rights as “terrorist” is not new and the similarities between Israel’s behavior and apartheid South Africa’s oppression of anti-apartheid activists are striking. South Africa’s Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 allowed for the indefinite detention of an individual for terrorism, which was very broadly defined to include anyone they suspected of being engaged or involved in any act against the state. Persons could be held indefinitely since the act allowed detention until all questions were satisfactorily answered or until no further useful purpose would be achieved by keeping the person in detention. The act gave the state the authority to interrogate and to extract information while the public and the families of detainees were not entitled to any information including even the identity or whereabouts of persons detained. Detainees could literally and effectively disappear. This legislation effectively gave the state license to take away activists’ human rights and avoid accountability. Many were kidnapped and imprisoned under this legislation; this law was invoked in the kidnapping and sentencing of Eric Ngeleza and some of his comrades in 1977 for their membership with the banned African National Congress (ANC) and for facilitating the safe passage of freedom fighters into ANC camps outside South Africa. They were branded as terrorists, interrogated and sentenced to long prison terms on Robben Island. In Ngeleza’s case, it would be ten years before he was reunited with his family. This fate should not be allowed to befall Makhoul, Said and many other activists whose only “crime” is demanding equal rights in the land of their birth. The new Israeli military order — order 1650, for the “Prevention of Infiltration” — also parallels apartheid South Africa’s racist pass laws. The military order defines anyone who enters the West Bank illegally as an infiltrator, as well as a person who is present in the area and does not lawfully hold a permit. The current South African government protested the order as “a gross violation of an individual’s human rights,” comparing it the notoriously oppressive policy of the apartheid era. Israel’s treatment of Makhoul and Said, so similar to the application of the Terrorism Act in South Africa and other oppressive measures, confirm that Israel is an apartheid state that has no regard for the rights of its own citizens. It is long overdue for Israel, like apartheid South Africa in its time, to be declared a pariah state and isolated until it agrees to respect human rights. Adri Nieuwhof and Bangani Ngeleza are independent consultants from Switzerland and South Africa, respectively. Nieuwhof supported the South African anti-apartheid struggle as a member of the Holland Committee on Southern Africa. Ngeleza participated in the liberation struggle as an activist with the African National Congress. When he was 11, his father Eric Ngeleza was sentenced to ten years on Robben Island. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11270.shtml

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Ships for Gaza

New boat joins Freedom Fleet, MV Rachel Corrie departs Ireland http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-boat-joins-freedom-fleet.html The Truth Will Set You Free: wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, has said that the Turkish relief foundation IHH bought a new ship that would join the Freedom Flotilla on its way ... Jan Boeykens  The enemy hopes always that he can draw you in a negative and self-destructive spiral. It is therefore that this Freedom Flotilla is so important. It's a symbol of hope. Yesterday at 2:01am  Jan Boeykens  Israel to Europe: "Stop your citizens from sailing to Gaza with aid. Such mission is provocative and in violation of Israeli law. Israel has not intention of allowing these sailboats in Gaza." The Israeli State becomes increasingly isolated by such reactions to international humanitarian initiatives. (It is the 7th time that we try to publish this comment) Jan Boeykens (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1445480105) on Free Makhoul-Saidالحرية لامير مخول وعمر سعيدישוחרר אמיר מח'ול-עומר (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586)

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05/17/2010

Gaza: New boat joins Freedom Fleet

New boat joins Freedom Fleet, MV Rachel Corrie departs Ireland


http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-boat-joins-freedom-fleet.html

The Truth Will Set You Free:

wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com

GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, has said that the Turkish relief foundation IHH bought a new ship that would join the Freedom Flotilla on its way ...

Jan Boeykens on Droit Fondamental  (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000757324550) and Free Makhoul-Saidالحرية لامير مخول وعمر سعيدישוחרר אמיר מח'ול-עומר (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586)

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05/16/2010

Janan Abdu Makhoul

We thank the Consumer Service of Skynet for her efforts concerning our hacked blogs.The problems appear to have not fully resolved. Everywhere you see the attached message, the picture has disappeared. --- There are many problems with our Skynet blogs. Pictures seem to disappear or are made invisible for a while. There is a complaint with the direction of Belgacom-Skynet. Belgacom is the government-owned telecom service provider of Belgium and belongs to a special class of Belgian state-owned utility companies (it had a state monopoly). The company act as a commercial concern and pointed out, its strengths in international communications helped Brussels to attract companies like Hewlett-Packard and British Petroleum, to set up their international headquarters there (next the headquarters for NATO and the EEC). http://humanrights-droitsdelhomme-mensenrechten.skynetblogs.be/ Janan Abdu’s Speech to Solidarity Rally Protesting Detention of Ameer Makhoul Kafr Kanna 13 May 2010: On behalf of my family and friends, allow me, through this platform, to send a message of admiration and love to my beloved husband Ameer Makhoul, and my friend and brother Omar Saeed, for their steadfastness and say to them: "You are rocks.. Let no wind shake you!” I wish to thank you, individuals and institutions, for your support and love, and your work that stems from a belief that Omar and Ameer’s case is not a personal issue, but the issue of all Palestinians in Israel. Your support and love bolster our and their strength and resilience. To the Shin Bet, which effectively controls and runs all the state’s institutions, ties the hands of the courts, and constricts the freedom of the press… To the Shin Bet, which, through Ameer and Omar, is trying to send a message to all of us, people, leaders and families, I say: You did not and will not succeed. By arresting Omar, abducting Ameer from his house under the cover of night, and detaining the two in conditions reminiscent of apartheid practices, the Shin Bet unmasks the true face of this racist regime. Those who break into people's homes, wreaking havoc in them and restraining a wife and two daughters.. they are the ones who are afraid. These repressive practices, the use of emergency laws, and the violation of fundamental human and civil rights will only make us and Ameer and Omar stronger and more unified. Ours is a strong and tenacious people. Ours is a people with a strong identity and solid backbone that will keep us standing. Let them know that their attempts at obliterating our identity, and preventing our natural and legitimate outreach to the Palestinian people and Arab countries will only make us more determined to defend our rights and the justness of our cause. They kidnapped Ameer to silence him, because he defends freedoms and exposes the reality of their practices. The abduction of Chairman of the Popular Committee for the Defense of Political Freedoms in an attempt silence his voice only takes place in a terrorist state. It does not occur in a state of law, nor in a country that claims to be democratic! Finally, I say to them: The Arab world is not our enemy, and will never be! Their policies aimed at gagging our mouths will not intimidate us. On the contrary, they will make us stronger because ours is a just cause and we are the rightful owners of this land. If they wish for this country to turn into a large Guantanamo, we say: Your prisons cannot hold all of us! No prison in the world can hold an entire people. So let them bring it on! Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said, we salute you   Janan Abdu Makhoul http://www.apnature.com/en/inp/view.asp?ID=189 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586 Free Makhoul-Saidالحرية لامير مخول وعمر سعيدישוחרר אמיר מח'ול-עומר סעיד Remove

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Al Nakba: ethnic cleansing

The narrative of the Jewish state began with an ethnic cleansing in 1948, which aimed to erase the history of an entire people and falsely create that of another. The Palestinian Exile, also known as Al Nakba (Arabic for "The Catastrophe"), refers to the ethnic cleansing during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. From December 1947 until November 1948, Zionist forces (namely the Irgun, Lehi, Haganah terrorist gangs) expelled approximately 750, 000 indigenous Palestinians—almost 2/3 of the population—from their homes. http://www.voltairenet.org/article160069.html Al Nakba Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 By:Mozafar Najafzadeh http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4306&id=100001049948138 Jan Boeykens on http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1445480105

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05/14/2010

Free Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said !

Jan Boeykens Free Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said ! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586 Free Makhoul-Saidالحرية لامير مخول وعمر سعيدישוחרר אמיר מח'ול-עומר סעיד Dr. Omar Said with his wife En'am and youngest doughter By:Iris Bar http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1445480105&ref=ts http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586&ref=mf

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Protest Against Israel in Stockholm

Jan Boeykens via Save Palestine from the Israeli occupation: Protest Against israel in Stockholm, Sweden! www.youtube.com Over 10 000 people in Stockholm showed there disappointment against the israeli army. http://www.facebook.com/SavePalestinefromtheIsraelioccupation http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1445480105&ref=ts

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Israeli-Spanish basketball protest

Jan Boeykens via Save Palestine from the Israeli occupation: Israeli-Spanish basketball protest (Barcelona) www.youtube.com Palestinian supporters disrupted a basketball match between FC Barcelona & Maccabi Tel-Aviv on 5 February - this looks more and more like the anti-apartheid movement that targeted old South Africa before the ANC toppled white minority rule. http://www.facebook.com/SavePalestinefromtheIsraelioccupation http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1445480105&ref=ts

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05/13/2010

Free Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said !

Amnesty International's support to get free the palestinian human rights activists Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said, is the first step in the right direction although there are 7000 other Palestinians, including many young people, in Israeli prisons. I have a lot of respect for associations like American Jews For A Just Peace (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arlington-MA/American-Jews-For-A-Just-Peace/29377854397), Jews Against Zionismאנו דוחים את תוקפו של רכישת הציוני בירושלים (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brooklyn-NY/Jews-Against-Zionism/205444216818?ref=ts) and Jewish Voice for Peace (http://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace?ref=ts) who really have the courage to openly criticize their government and to organize all kinds of actions. They are the only hope for the Middle East and the future generations. They are the only answer to the hopeless cycle of violence and hate which the Israeli government uses to maintain her boundless power. Jan Boeykens on the group Free Ameer Makhoul-Omar Saidالحرية لأمير مخول-ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול-עומר סעיד (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586)   Free Ameer Makhoul-Omar Saidالحرية لأمير مخول-ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול-עומר סעיד Photos

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05/12/2010

Israel - Human Rights - Ameer Makhoul - Amnesty International

We thank the Consumer Service of Skynet for her efforts concerning our hacked blogs.The problems appear to have not fully resolved. Everywhere you see the attached message, the picture has disappeared. --- There are many problems with our Skynet blogs. Pictures seem to disappear or are made invisible for a while. There is a complaint with the direction of Belgacom-Skynet. Belgacom is the government-owned telecom service provider of Belgium and belongs to a special class of Belgian state-owned utility companies (it had a state monopoly). The company act as a commercial concern and pointed out, its strengths in international communications helped Brussels to attract companies like Hewlett-Packard and British Petroleum, to set up their international headquarters there (next the headquarters for NATO and the EEC). http://humanrights-droitsdelhomme-mensenrechten.skynetblogs.be/   ISRAEL MUST STOP HARASSMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER 12 May 2010 Amnesty International has called on the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of a human rights activist whose week-long detention by the Israeli authorities was extended today.  Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was arrested in a dawn raid at his home in Haifa, northern Israel, by the Israeli security services and police on 6 May. He has been charged with "contact with a foreign agent" on the basis of “secret evidence”.  "Ameer Makhoul is a key human rights defender, well-known for his civil society activism on behalf of the Palestinian citizens of Israel," said Philip Luther, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme.  "His arrest and continued detention smacks of pure harassment, designed to hinder his human rights work. If this is the case, we would regard him as a prisoner of conscience call for his immediate and unconditional release.”  Ameer Makhoul has been denied legal advice throughout his detention. The doctor at the prison where he is held has informed his lawyer that he is suffering from pains in his head.  On the morning of his arrest, Ameer Makhoul was taken to Petah Tikva interrogation centre and, at a hearing the same day, his detention was authorized for six days. Today it was extended until 17 May.  According to Ameer's wife, Janan Makhoul, during the raid on their home, security forces confiscated mobile phones, laptops, a camera, and documents.  The same morning, members of the Israeli security forces also raided the office of the association Ittijah in Haifa, where Ameer Makhoul works.    Ameer Makhoul had already been banned from travelling for two months on 21 April by the Israeli Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai, who said at the time that Ameer Makhoul’s exit from the country “poses a serious threat to the security of the state”.  The Palestinian activist was only made aware of the ban when he attempted to leave Israel on 22 April, where he was scheduled to begin a series of meetings with civil society activists in Jordan.  When Amnesty International spoke to Ameer Makhoul in late April he expressed his concern that the travel ban was part of a broader pattern of state repression against the peaceful political activities of Palestinian citizens of Israel, justified under "security concerns".  In January 2009, the Israeli Central Election Committee banned the National Democratic Assembly (NDA), a party which currently holds three seats in the Israeli parliament and calls for Israel to be "a state for all its citizens", and the United Arab List, which has four parliamentary representatives, from standing in Israel’s general elections under the claim that the parties supported terrorism and "did not recognize Israel's existence as a Jewish and democratic state".    The Committee’s ban on the two parties was subsequently overturned by the Israeli High Court.    On 24 April, Omar Said, an activist with the NDA was detained by the Israeli authorities.    Initially a gagging order was imposed on the Israeli press to prevent reporting of Ameer Makhoul’s and Omar Said’s detentions.  The lifting of the order led to reports in the Israeli media on Monday that the arrests of both men related to accusations of spying and contact with a foreign agent from Lebanese group Hizbullah.  Ameer Makhoul has been the General Director of Ittijah, which works on behalf of the Palestinian community in Israel, since its foundation in 1995.  He is also the chair of the Public Committee for the Defence of Political Freedom within the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee in Israel.  "In the unlikely event that there are genuine grounds to prosecute Ameer Makhoul he should be charged with recognizable criminal offences and brought promptly to trial in full conformity with international fair trial standards," said Philip Luther.   http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-must-stop-harassment-human-rights-defender-2010-05-12   "Free Ameer Makhoul--الحرية لأمير مخول--ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586 על מנועי חיפוש, ישראלים חסרי סבלנות ומה שביניהם. http://freedomofsearch.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html Gaza Prisoner Protest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V8lEcFfBQ

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HUMAN RIGHTS ISRAEL: ACTION AMEER MAKHOUL’S COURT CASE

ACTION court case: 12.5.2010   Stop repression of Palestinian civil society Join the protest at Ameer Makhoul’s court case   Join the protest at the next court hearing of Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian human rights defender and serves as the General Director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and Chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms in the framework of the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel. When: Wednesday, 12 May 2010 , 10 am (court hearing: 10:30 am) Where:  First Instance Court at Petah Tikva Bazel Str. 1, at the corner of Shimshon Street in front of Rabin Hospital – Bellinson   For a google map see: http://bit.ly/afSo7d)   For more details, please contact: Adv.Hussein Abu Hussein, Ittijah, Chairperson, 054-5428860     BACKGROUND On May 6, 2010 at 6 am the Israeli General Security Service accompanied by Israeli police raided his home in Haifa and arrested him. Makhoul is still not allowed to see his lawyer. Ameer Makhoul’s arrest, detention and a previously imposed travel ban are based on emergency regulations and “secret” information that is never disclosed to the defense. They are a flagrant violation of the UN Declaration and the EU guidelines on Human Rights Defenders. Palestinian human rights of freedom of movement, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association as well as the right to protection from arbitrary arrest are daily violated. Israel blatantly disregards all democratic principles in order to prevent Palestinian – and indeed all - civil society to speak out and to crush the popular movement to defend the rights and existence of the Palestinian people. Mr. Makhoul’s case is only one example amidst a recent escalated campaign by Israeli authorities against Palestinian human rights defenders and civil resistance. In addition to arbitrary arrest and detention, Israeli authorities have applied travel bans against a number of Palestinian human rights defenders in recent months. Israeli authorities have also started to target Palestinian, Israeli and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as part of their wider campaign against Palestinian human rights defenders. Measures used include raids of organizations’ offices, deportation of organization staff and volunteers, a new policy of visa denials for international NGO workers, and pending legislation in the Knesset that would enable the Israeli government to close down any organization that gives information to foreign actors or participates in legal efforts outside Israel to try Israeli officials for war crimes. http://freeameermakhoul.blogspot.com/2010/05/stop-repression-of-palestinian-civil.html "Free Ameer Makhoul--الحرية لأمير مخول--ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול":  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586 על מנועי חיפוש, ישראלים חסרי סבלנות ומה שביניהם.:  http://freedomofsearch.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html Gaza Prisoner Protest:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V8lEcFfBQ   Press: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/may/11/israel-dissent-arab-repress-liberties/ http://www.humtum18.com/world-news/hundreds-of-israeli-palestinians-protested-against-detention-of-ameer-makhoul/ Basel, Petah Tikva, Israel - Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Basel,+Petah+Tikva,+Israel&mrt=all&sll=31.934863,34.98336&sspn=0.435876,1.054001&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FUPA6QEd1QcUAg&split=0&hq=&hnear=Basel,+Petah+Tikva,+Israel&z=16

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05/10/2010

Free Ameer Makhoul: ACTION IN ISRAEL

Monday, May 10, 2010  Haifa joint protest by Balad and Hadash Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Hagefen St. junction near Beit Hagefen If you are in Israel, please consider attending this demonstration jointly organized by Balad and Hadash to protest the widespread attack on progressive political activisits like Ameer Makhoul and Omer Said. Our group now consists of 1,350 members and growing by the minute. Please continue notifying people about it and soliciting their support and participation. Haifa joint protest by Balad and Hadash ביחד נעצור את הרדיפות והמעצרים הפוליטיים לא לצווי איסור פגישה של  עצורים עם עורכי הדין שלהם  לא לצווי איסור פרסום כולכם מוזמנים  להשתתף במשמרת המחאה נגד המעצרים והרדיפות הפוליטיות כנגד הנהגת החברה  האזרחית והציבור הערבי. ההפגנה תתקיים ביום ב' 10/5/2010 שעה 19:00  בפינת רחובות ההר (הציונות) והגפן, מול בית הגפן. ישוחררו מיד אמיר  מח'ול  סניפי חיפה: המפלגה הקומוניסטית וחד"ש בל"ד התנועה  האסלאמית תנועת אבנאא אלבלד Demo against political arrests & repression - Free Ameer Makhoul--الحرية لأمير مخول--ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול Location:elJabal & elKarmah (Hagefen) st. junction near "Beit elKarma (beit Hagefen)", Haifa Time:7:00PM Monday, May 10th "Free Ameer Makhoul--الحرية لأمير مخول--ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115095168526586 על מנועי חיפוש, ישראלים חסרי סבלנות ומה שביניהם. http://freedomofsearch.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html Gaza Prisoner Protest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V8lEcFfBQ Photo added by Mohammad Zeidan to the group ""Free Ameer Makhoul--الحرية لأمير مخول--ישוחרר אמיר מח'ול"" on http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4489484&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=115095168526586&aid=-1&id=626405973

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