Monday, March 18, 2024

Anan Yaeesh - from Terni's prison /Italy - 'Resistance is not terrorism!



Il 14 marzo si è svolto l’interrogatorio di garanzia di Anan Yaeesh nella Casa Circondariale di Terni. La prospettazione accusatoria accolta dal GIP del Tribunale dell’Aquila è relativa all’ organizzazione di un gruppo terroristico denominato “Brigata Tulkarem”, operante nella città di Tulkarem in Cisgiordania, gemmazione delle Brigate dei Martiri di al-Aqsa.

Anan ha rilasciato una lunga e articolata dichiarazione spontanea pronunciando un j’accuse nei confronti del carattere squisitamente politico dell’indagine. In particolare, ha raccontato la condizione di oppressione e violenza subita dal popolo palestinese sottoposto al giogo militare israeliano nell’indifferenza della comunità internazionale. Ha raccontato la sua storia di giovane palestinese, l’uccisione della sua fidanzata ad opera dell’esercito israeliano mentre andavano a scuola, le mani sporche del sangue della ragazza, il tentato omicidio di cui è stato vittima nel 2006 ad opera di soldati israeliani, gli 11 colpi di arma da fuoco da cui è stato raggiunto, l’orrore provato dalla madre alla vista del suo ferimento e del conseguente ictus da cui la stessa fu raggiunta perdendo per sempre le capacità cognitive, i suoi amici uccisi dall’esercito.

Ha affermato di rifiutare lo stigma del terrorista per sé e per il suo popolo, ha ricordato che tutti i popoli hanno diritto a lottare per la loro libertà contro l’esercito invasore, ha paragonato la lotta palestinese a quella dell’Italia durante la resistenza, e ha sottolineato che, piuttosto, nessun Paese occidentale ha mai tentennato nel sostenere l’Ucraina, che fino ad oggi è anche stata armata dello stesso occidente. Ha ricordato l’orrore della guerra di Gaza e i 30 mila morti palestinesi di cui oltre due terzi donne e bambini, e retoricamente chiesto chi sono i terroristi.

Ha ricordato inoltre che la lotta per la Palestina si gioca nei territori occupati e non altrove, riferendosi con ciò agli articoli di giornali che paventavano il pericolo di atti di violenza in Italia. Ha concluso dicendo di volere soltanto la pace e la libertà per il proprio popolo.

Comitato per la liberazione di Anan Yaeesh

 

Da radio onda rossa

https://www.ondarossa.info/redazionali/2024/03/no-allestradizione-anan-ancora-carcere

Con l'avvocato Flavio Rossi Albertini approfondiamo la negazione dell'estradizione in Israele di Anan Yaeesh da parte della Corte d'Appelo di L'Aquila e il procedimento giudiziario che tiene lo tiene comunque in carcere e che ha dettato l'arresto di altri due ragazzi Palestinesi, Mansour Doghmosh in carcere a Rossano Calabro e Ali Saji Rabhi a Ferrara.

Per scrivergli:

  • Anan Yaeesh, casa circondariale di Terni - Strada delle Campore, 32, Terni CAP 05100
  • Mansour Doghmosh, casa circondariale di Rossano -  Contrada Ciminata, Rossano (CS) CAP 87068
  • Ali Saji Rabhi, casa circondariale di Ferrara - Via Arginone, 327, Ferrara CAP 44100

Per scrivergli:

  • Anan Yaeesh, casa circondariale di Terni – Strada delle Campore, 32, Terni CAP 05100
  • Mansour Doghmosh, casa circondariale di Rossano –  Contrada Ciminata, Rossano (CS) CAP 87068
  • Ali Saji Rabhi, casa circondariale di Ferrara – Via Arginone, 327, Ferrara CAP 44100

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Tunisia - Solidarity with Ghassen ben Khalifa, Tunisian journalist and militant for the Palestinian cause! - Maoist Communist Party of Italy Proletarian Red Aid - Italy

 

Solidarity with Ghassen ben Khalifa, Tunisian journalist and militant for the Palestinian cause!


Saied's Tunisian police state regime continues to persecute the political and social militant for the Palestinian cause, the journalist Ghassen ben Khalifa, through constructed accusations.

Already in the summer of 2022, Ghassen had been accused of managing a Facebook page linked to Islamist radicalism and therefore accused of terrorism, this accusation immediately appeared as a blatant fabrication given that Ghassen is notoriously a militant of the revolutionary left.

Incidentally, it was the first case of judicial persecution against a revolutionary militant since the Ben Ali regime; not even the post-revolt restoration governments, better known with the misleading formula of "democratic transition" (2011-2021), had prosecuted left-wing militants.

After five days of detention and a large demonstration of solidarity in Tunis in the middle of summer, Ghassen was finally released from prison but the judicial proceedings had not yet been closed.

Court hearings followed in which the real manager of the offending page declared each time that he himself was the manager of the pages and the author of the publications and that he did not know Ghassen.

Meanwhile, the accusation of "offending others through social media" and "participation in a terrorist plot" and "offensive conduct towards the president" was also added.

Last March 14, the judge of first instance of the court of Ben Arous (Greater Tunis area) sentenced Ghassen to 6 months of imprisonment, not with immediate effect pending a further hearing which involves the examination of the most serious charges for next April 5th.

Our party expresses sincere solidarity with comrade Ghassen Ben Khalifa, denounces Saied's reactionary police state regime supported by imperialism, including Italian imperialism today represented by the neo-fascist Meloni government.


maoist Communist Party of Italy

Proletarian Red Aid - Italy

03/16/2024

Turkey - Hunger strike by prisoners in Tekirdağ F Type Prison No 1

 


TKP-ML and MLKP prisoners in Tekirdağ F Type Prison No 1 went on a hunger strike in support of the hunger strike by PKK prisoners against the isolation in İmralı Island and violations of rights in prisons since November.

TKP-ML and MLKP prisoners in Tekirdağ F Prison No 1 organised a 3-day hunger strike to support the hunger strike of PKK prisoners and against the deepening violations of rights in prisons.

According to the information we received through the families of the prisoners, Murat Deniz, Yaşar Eriş, Bülent Kapar, Ahmet Doğan, Ümit Emrah Köse, Ercan Görtas, Özgür Dinçer went on a 3-day hunger strike on 12,13,14 March.

In the message they sent, the prisoners said, "We went on this hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger strike that has been going on since November and against the increasing violations of rights in prisons."

Source: https://ozgurgelecek51.net/tekirdag-1-nolu-f-tipi-hapishanesindeki-tutsaklardan-aclik-grevi/



Tunisia - Ghassen Ben Khalifa, Journalist and Palestinian cause/George Ibrahim Abdallah Commitee activist condamned to 6 month of prison!



Below are the unofficial translations of some press releases


- A first statement from Ghassen Ben Khalifa via his Facebook page:


Personal/political/absurd divide:

Regarding the “moral” part of the ridiculous, fabricated case against me (accusing me of being a moderator of a “islamist” page called “Al-Burkan Al-Tunisi”), the court of first instance in Ben Arous issued a decision against me yesterday: six months in prison (without immediate implementation).

This is pending the holding of the first session in the second, more serious case (related to mild charges such as “participation in a terrorist alliance,” “committing a brutal act against the President of the Republic,” etc.) on April 5th.

I mean, Mr. Judge, he was not convinced by the words of the lawyers who presented him with copies of the confessions of the gentleman who was arrested (while I was detained and we were looking at the National Unit to investigate terrorist crimes in Aouina) and in which he confirmed that it was his page alone and that he was the one who published everything on it and that he did not know me at all... In addition to what is proven (from the archive of my Facebook account) that on the alleged date and time (according to a technical report from the Department of Technical Services of the General Administration of National Security) I contacted the page from an IP address linked to my phone number. At that time, I was connected from my account and interacting and posting on My personal page has a completely different ip address...

In other words, Mr. Judge treated the security report of questionable authenticity (and he does not explain at all how he arrived at his conclusion - knowing that there are soon 30 pages whose owners are required to be identified. He did not find, Glory be to God, that page was clever and linked it to me) as a conclusive argument stronger than a confession. The second defendant is stronger than the results of the Al-Awaina Division’s research and stronger than the apparent contradiction of my well-known intellectual and political convictions with the content of that page...

The bottom line is that we will appeal this unjust ruling and prepare for the April session. I assure all comrades and friends that morale is high. I also reassure everyone who believes that with such ridiculous charges and fabrications he can harm me, intimidate me, or make an example of me...


- Statement from the Tunisian Campaign of Boycott and Opposition to Normalization with the Zionist Entity


Freedom for those who oppose normalization... Freedom for our people and those who are aligned with them!

Yesterday, 03/14/2024, the Court of First Instance in Ben Arous issued a six-month prison sentence against Comrade Ghassan Ben Khalifa, one of the founding members of the campaign and the editor-in-chief of the Inhiyez website, a fighter within the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine, and a member of the Solidarity Committee with the activist George Ibrahim Abdullah. Background of the case that was raised against him after he was suspended in September 2022 for five days.

The ruling relates to the charge of “insulting others via social media” that was brought against Ghassan in the “moral” aspect of the case. This is a charge brought against him based on the allegations of a report from one of the departments of the Ministry of Interior, which claimed that the “Tunisian Volcano” page was linked to an IP address linked to his phone number. This was proven false by the defense team, based on the archive of his contacts on his personal page (which prove that at the alleged time of the technical monitoring process, he was connected to his personal page with a different IP address), and the confessions of the page moderator who was suspended before the release of Ghassan bin Khalifa in September 2022, and who He denied knowing the companion or having any relationship with the aforementioned page, which he confirmed that he managed alone.

We, in the Tunisian campaign to boycott and oppose normalization with the Zionist entity, condemn this unjust ruling against our comrade and declare our absolute support for him. As we support our comrade, we stand in solidarity with ourselves and with those belonging to the underground and those aligned with him.

We also call on all comrades, male and female, all struggling individuals and progressive forces to rally around Ghassan’s case and to put pressure and mobilize before the Court of First Instance in Tunis on April 5, coinciding with the first session related to the second part of the case in which he faces fabricated charges such as “participation in a terrorist arrangement” and “committing "It is a miserable matter for the President of the Republic."

Arbitrary rulings will only make us more united and steadfast. Freedom for those who oppose normalization. Prison for typists.


- Press release from the Coordination of the joint action for Palestine in Tunisia:


🔴#statement

Tunisia on March 15, 2024

#Unjust_judgments_will_not_dissuade_us_and_we_steadfast_in_the_option_of_support_resistance_and_anti_normalization

Yesterday, Thursday, March 14, 2024, the Court of First Instance in Ben Arous issued a six-month prison sentence in a sub-case against Comrade Ghassan Ben Khalifa, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Inhaaz website, activist for the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine, member of the Tunisian campaign to boycott and oppose normalization with the Zionist entity, and member of the committee. Tunisian Commitee of Solidarity with the freedom fighter George Ibrahim Abdullah.

It is important for the Coordination of Joint Action for Palestine to clarify to public opinion that this ruling was based on a security report that included the name of the leftist activist Ghassan bin Khalifa in a case related to the management of a page on the social networking site Facebook with “Brotherhood” content. The main accused in it is arrested and admitted that he is the one who owns and manages the page. He is responsible for all her posts and that he has no relationship or knowledge with the companion.

The Coordination of Joint Action for Palestine, while it considers that this unjust ruling and everything that is being plotted against its activist, is against the backdrop of his struggle activity linked to supporting the option of resistance and against normalization, it confirms that targeting its activists with fabricated charges will not discourage it from moving forward with its struggle options, and that giving the apparatuses free rein. The security lurking among the activists will only increase their stability.

The coordination also calls on all national, progressive and revolutionary political organizations and groups and civil society institutions aligned with the Palestinian right and all Tunisians to attend in large numbers on April 5, 2024, before the Tunisian Court of First Instance to support the leftist activist Ghassan Ben Khalifa in the first session of the original case in which he faces charges of “participation in an agreement.” Criminal” and “committing a despicable act against the President of the Republic” and other fabricated charges.






 

8th March - Tunisia


 



Saturday, March 16, 2024

From Ang Bayan: Filipinos Protest Marcos’ Visit To Germany



Ang Bayan

March 14, 2024

Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s visit to Berlin on March 13 was met with protests by Filipino migrants.

ALPAS Pilipinas and GABRIELA-Germany led the protests. It was also attended by allied organizations, such as Solidarity International, ARARAT Armenian Collective, MLPD, German Filipino Friendship, Kurdish Women, Resbak, Philippine Buro and Interburo.

According to BAYAN-Europe, Marcos Jr’s visit to Germany and other European countries from March 11-15 should serve as an occasion for all Filipino migrants and human rights defenders to condemn the brutal regime that commit gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL).

“It is wrong to welcome this Marcos junket, the main purpose of which is to deodorize the stinking image of Marcos and his family in the international community,” according to the BAYAN-Europe statement.

Historically, the allied organizations in Germany have been among the most committed supporters of the movement against the Marcos fascist dictatorship in the 70s and 80s.

Marcos Jr’s visit is expected to seal negotiations for Germany to supply drones to the Philippines supposedly for maritime security against China. This Military aid will be awarded amid the gross violations of international humanitarian law and heavy militarization and indiscriminate bombing of the countryside perpetrated by the Marcos regime.

The protesters also called on the European Union to stop supporting the Marcos Jr regime by ending military aid. Germany and the EU are both signatories to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) which supplies military aid, weapons and other military equipment to the Philippines.

It can be recalled that during the Duterte regime, the EU strongly condemned the war on drugs and human rights violations. In February 2022, the EU Parliament issued a resolution that threatened to withdraw the Philippines’ GSP+ and other incentives, such as the benefit of zero tariff (no layer tax) on goods from the EU, if the Duterte regime did not stop the violations. Germany is the largest trading partner of the Philippines in Europe.

Arundhati Roy - With Genocide in Gaza, the Word 'Never' Has Been Stripped From 'Never Again'


The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war.

The following is a statement written by Arundhati Roy and delivered on her behalf at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on Thursday March 7, 2024. The remarks were first published by Scroll, an independent media outlet in India.

The richest, most powerful countries in the Western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Gaza strip has been turned into a concentration camp. Those who have not already been killed are being starved to death. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. Their homes, hospitals, universities, museums, and infrastructure of every kind has been reduced to rubble. Their children have been murdered. Their past has been vaporized. Their future is hard to see.

Even though the highest court in the world believes that almost every indicator seems to meet the legal definition of genocide, IDF soldiers continue to put out their mocking “victory videos” celebrating what almost looks like fiendish rituals. They believe that there is no power in the world that will hold them to account. But they are wrong. They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. And hopefully one day everybody – on all sides of this conflict – who has committed war crimes will be tried and punished for them, keeping in mind that there is no equivalence between crimes committed while resisting Apartheid and Occupation, and crimes committed while enforcing them.

They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them.

Racism is of course the keystone of any act of genocide. The rhetoric of the highest officials of the Israeli state has, ever since Israel came into existence, dehumanized Palestinians and likened them to vermin and insects, just like the Nazis once dehumanized Jews. It is as though that evil serum never went away and is now only being recirculated. The “Never” has been excised from that powerful slogan “Never Again”. And we are left only with “Again”.

Never Again.

President Joe Biden, head of state of the richest, most powerful country in the world, is helpless before Israel, even though Israel would not exist without US funding. It’s as though the dependent has taken over the benefactor. The optics say so. Like a geriatric child, Joe Biden appears on camera licking an ice-cream cone and vaguely mumbling about a ceasefire, while Israeli government and military officials openly defy him and vow to finish what they have started. To try and stop the hemorrhaging of the votes of millions of young Americans who will not stand for this slaughter in their name, Kamala Harris, US vice-president, has been tasked with the job of calling for a ceasefire, while billions of US dollars continue to flow to enable the genocide.

And what of our country?

It is well known that our prime minister is an intimate friend of Benjamin Netanyahu and there is no doubt where his sympathies lie. India is no longer a friend of Palestine. When the bombing began, thousands of Modi’s supporters put up the Israeli flag as their DP on social media. They helped spread the vilest disinformation on behalf of Israel and the IDF. Even though the Indian government has now stepped back into a more neutral position – our foreign policy triumph is that we manage to be on all sides at once, we can be pro- as well as anti-genocide – the government has clearly indicated that it will act decisively against any pro-Palestine protestors.

President Joe Biden, head of state of the richest, most powerful country in the world, is helpless before Israel, even though Israel would not exist without US funding. It’s as though the dependent has taken over the benefactor.

And now, while the US exports what it has in abundant surplus – weapons and money to aid Israel’s genocide – India too is exporting what our country has in abundant surplus: the unemployed poor to replace the Palestinian workers who will no longer be given work permits to enter Israel. (I’m guessing there will be no Muslims among the new recruits.) People who are desperate enough to risk their lives in a war zone. People desperate enough to tolerate overt Israeli racism against Indians. You can see it expressed on social media, if you care to look. US money and Indian poverty combine to oil Israel’s genocidal war machine. What a terrible, unthinkable, shame.

The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war. They, their journalists, their doctors, their rescue teams their poets, academics, spokespeople, and even their children have conducted themselves with a courage and dignity that has inspired the rest of the world. The young generation in the Western world, particularly the new generation of young Jewish people in the US, have seen through the brainwashing and propaganda and have recognized apartheid and genocide for what it is. The governments of the most powerful countries in the Western world have lost their dignity, and any respect they might have had. Yet again. But the millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future of the world.

Palestine will be free.