Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all friends and supporters of Palestine and the Palestinian prisoners’ strugle for freedom to join in the international week of action on 15-22 October in support of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah,
Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, imprisoned in French prisons for
over 32 years. Georges Abdallah’s case has built significant support in
Lebanon and in France, and Palestinian prisoners have highlighted the
importance of Abdallah’s case as part of the struggle of the Palestinian
political prisoners for freedom and liberation.
Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment in France, accused of
participating in actions in France targeting U.S. and Israeli interests
during the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. During his arrest
and trial, one of his original lawyers was a spy against him, working
for French intelligence. He has been eligible for release under parole
since 1999; he has been repeatedly refused, and at times when his
release to Lebanon has been approved by the French judiciary, the
highest forces of the state, including then-Interior Minister Manuel
Valls – with the clear involvement of the U.S. government, including the
personal intervention of Hillary Clinton – have intervened to keep Georges Ibrahim Abdallah locked up in French prison.
Throughout his time in prison, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has remained
politically active and, indeed, a leader, extending solidarity and full
support to struggling prisoners and peoples’ movements around the world.
He and fellow prisoners – Basque and Arab, among others – in Lannemezan
prison returned their meals in solidarity with Palestinian hunger
striker Bilal Kayed,
and he has previously participated in hunger strikes in solidarity with
Palestinian individual and collective strikes for justice and freedom.
He recently expressed his solidarity with Toulouse BDS activists under
attack and has constantly remained an active thinker on Arab, Palestinian and international liberation struggles.
He has always refused to in any way capitulate or renounce his
political vision and commitment to the Palestinian cause, to the people
of Lebanon, and to international struggles for liberation. He remains a
committed anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. In part
because of that very refusal, he remains today imprisoned in the French
prison of Lannemezan.
The imprisonment of Georges Abdallah comes alongside the persecution
and arrest of BDS activists in France for urging the boycott of Israel
in solidarity with the Palestinian people, ongoing racist targeting of
Arab and Muslim communities in France and the “state of emergency” being
used to repress popular movements for justice, while the French state
promotes itself as a supporter of “peace” in the region while acting
directly in support of the Israeli occupation and Zionist colonization.
We urge friends and supporters of Palestine around the world
to organize events and protests and engage in actions on 15-22 October
for the freedom of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian
prisoners, and to join in the collective march on 22 October in Lannemezan at 2 pm outside the prison, demanding the immediate release of Georges Abdallah.
The statement in French by the
Unified Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah is published
below, urging participation in the week of action. Samidoun joins in
this call and urges all to take part as well. Please email us at samidoun@samidoun.net or message us on Facebook
about your actions in solidarity with Georges Abdallah. (Suggested
actions include protests at French embassies and consulates; deliveries
of letters to French officials; and protests of official French visits
or activities.)
Scheduled events include the below. Paris already has a major
schedule of events! To get involved or book bus tickets from Paris to
Lannemezan, email campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com. Add your events below!
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all friends and supporters of Palestine and the Palestinian prisoners’ strugle for freedom to join in the international week of action on 15-22 October in support of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah,
Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, imprisoned in French prisons for
over 32 years. Georges Abdallah’s case has built significant support in
Lebanon and in France, and Palestinian prisoners have highlighted the
importance of Abdallah’s case as part of the struggle of the Palestinian
political prisoners for freedom and liberation.
Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment in France, accused of participating in actions in France targeting U.S. and Israeli interests during the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. During his arrest and trial, one of his original lawyers was a spy against him, working for French intelligence. He has been eligible for release under parole since 1999; he has been repeatedly refused, and at times when his release to Lebanon has been approved by the French judiciary, the highest forces of the state, including then-Interior Minister Manuel Valls – with the clear involvement of the U.S. government, including the personal intervention of Hillary Clinton – have intervened to keep Georges Ibrahim Abdallah locked up in French prison.
Throughout his time in prison, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has remained politically active and, indeed, a leader, extending solidarity and full support to struggling prisoners and peoples’ movements around the world. He and fellow prisoners – Basque and Arab, among others – in Lannemezan prison returned their meals in solidarity with Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, and he has previously participated in hunger strikes in solidarity with Palestinian individual and collective strikes for justice and freedom. He recently expressed his solidarity with Toulouse BDS activists under attack and has constantly remained an active thinker on Arab, Palestinian and international liberation struggles.
He has always refused to in any way capitulate or renounce his political vision and commitment to the Palestinian cause, to the people of Lebanon, and to international struggles for liberation. He remains a committed anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. In part because of that very refusal, he remains today imprisoned in the French prison of Lannemezan.
The imprisonment of Georges Abdallah comes alongside the persecution and arrest of BDS activists in France for urging the boycott of Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, ongoing racist targeting of Arab and Muslim communities in France and the “state of emergency” being used to repress popular movements for justice, while the French state promotes itself as a supporter of “peace” in the region while acting directly in support of the Israeli occupation and Zionist colonization.
We urge friends and supporters of Palestine around the world to organize events and protests and engage in actions on 15-22 October for the freedom of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners, and to join in the collective march on 22 October in Lannemezan at 2 pm outside the prison, demanding the immediate release of Georges Abdallah.
Scheduled events include the below. Paris already has a major schedule of events! To get involved or book bus tickets from Paris to Lannemezan, email campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com. Add your events below!
Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment in France, accused of participating in actions in France targeting U.S. and Israeli interests during the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. During his arrest and trial, one of his original lawyers was a spy against him, working for French intelligence. He has been eligible for release under parole since 1999; he has been repeatedly refused, and at times when his release to Lebanon has been approved by the French judiciary, the highest forces of the state, including then-Interior Minister Manuel Valls – with the clear involvement of the U.S. government, including the personal intervention of Hillary Clinton – have intervened to keep Georges Ibrahim Abdallah locked up in French prison.
Throughout his time in prison, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has remained politically active and, indeed, a leader, extending solidarity and full support to struggling prisoners and peoples’ movements around the world. He and fellow prisoners – Basque and Arab, among others – in Lannemezan prison returned their meals in solidarity with Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, and he has previously participated in hunger strikes in solidarity with Palestinian individual and collective strikes for justice and freedom. He recently expressed his solidarity with Toulouse BDS activists under attack and has constantly remained an active thinker on Arab, Palestinian and international liberation struggles.
He has always refused to in any way capitulate or renounce his political vision and commitment to the Palestinian cause, to the people of Lebanon, and to international struggles for liberation. He remains a committed anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. In part because of that very refusal, he remains today imprisoned in the French prison of Lannemezan.
The imprisonment of Georges Abdallah comes alongside the persecution and arrest of BDS activists in France for urging the boycott of Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, ongoing racist targeting of Arab and Muslim communities in France and the “state of emergency” being used to repress popular movements for justice, while the French state promotes itself as a supporter of “peace” in the region while acting directly in support of the Israeli occupation and Zionist colonization.
We urge friends and supporters of Palestine around the world to organize events and protests and engage in actions on 15-22 October for the freedom of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners, and to join in the collective march on 22 October in Lannemezan at 2 pm outside the prison, demanding the immediate release of Georges Abdallah.
The statement in French by the
Unified Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah is published
below, urging participation in the week of action. Samidoun joins in
this call and urges all to take part as well. Please email us at samidoun@samidoun.net or message us on Facebook
about your actions in solidarity with Georges Abdallah. (Suggested
actions include protests at French embassies and consulates; deliveries
of letters to French officials; and protests of official French visits
or activities.)
Scheduled events include the below. Paris already has a major schedule of events! To get involved or book bus tickets from Paris to Lannemezan, email campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com. Add your events below!
Georges Abdallah, militant communiste arabe,
combattant pour la lutte de libération nationale de la Palestine, est
incarcéré dans les geôles de l’État français depuis plus de 32 ans.
Condamné à perpétuité pour complicité dans des actes de résistance
revendiqués par les Fractions armées révolutionnaires libanaises, alors
que son pays le Liban, était envahi par les troupes sionistes, il est
libérable depuis 1999. Malgré deux libérations prononcées par le
tribunal d’application des peines, Georges Abdallah est maintenu en
prison par décision de l’État impérialiste français et sur injonction
des États-Unis.
Rappelons que ce prisonnier politique est un prisonnier politique de la résistance palestinienne qui, en dépit des décennies de captivité, ne s‘est jamais soumis et n’a jamais capitulé. Et aujourd’hui encore, il livre bataille, n’ayant pour armes que son inébranlable volonté et son attachement indéfectible à la justesse de la cause des peuples opprimés de Palestine, du Liban, de toute la région et d’ailleurs.
Rappelons aussi et encore que Georges Abdallah, en tant que communiste, n’a jamais rien renié de son engagement politique antisioniste, anticapitaliste et anti-impérialiste. Les masses populaires, à travers diverses initiatives, lui témoignent régulièrement toute leur sympathie et leur solidarité. Aux forces et organisations communistes, révolutionnaires, militantes, anti-impérialiste, progressistes et démocratiques d’assumer aussi pleinement la tâche qui leur incombe : celle de combattre cette détention arbitraire et illégale que subit Georges Abdallah pour mettre à l’ordre du jour, comme tâche primordiale, la libération de notre camarade et de tous les révoltés contre le colonialisme, le capitalisme et l'impérialisme.
C’est en ce sens que nous appelons tous ceux et celles qui sont du côté des peuples en lutte, du côté de la résistance palestinienne, qui combattent le capitalisme, l’impérialisme, le sionisme, le colonialisme et les états réactionnaires arabes, à participer activement et massivement à la semaine d’actions internationale prévue du 15 au 22 octobre 2016 et à manifester devant la prison à Lannemezan, le 22 octobre 2016 à 14h pour réaffirmer l’exigence de la libération de Georges Abdallah.
Campagne Unitaire pour exiger la libération de Georges Abdallah
Tract en PDF
✭✭✭ SEMAINE d’ACTIONS INTERNATIONALE du 15 au 22 octobre 2016
Concernant la région Ile de France : initiatives prévues.
✭✭✭ BUS pour LANNEMEZAN : inscription à l’adresse suivante campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com
☞ Départ de PARIS : le 21 octobre 2016, à 22h00.
Rappelons que ce prisonnier politique est un prisonnier politique de la résistance palestinienne qui, en dépit des décennies de captivité, ne s‘est jamais soumis et n’a jamais capitulé. Et aujourd’hui encore, il livre bataille, n’ayant pour armes que son inébranlable volonté et son attachement indéfectible à la justesse de la cause des peuples opprimés de Palestine, du Liban, de toute la région et d’ailleurs.
Rappelons aussi et encore que Georges Abdallah, en tant que communiste, n’a jamais rien renié de son engagement politique antisioniste, anticapitaliste et anti-impérialiste. Les masses populaires, à travers diverses initiatives, lui témoignent régulièrement toute leur sympathie et leur solidarité. Aux forces et organisations communistes, révolutionnaires, militantes, anti-impérialiste, progressistes et démocratiques d’assumer aussi pleinement la tâche qui leur incombe : celle de combattre cette détention arbitraire et illégale que subit Georges Abdallah pour mettre à l’ordre du jour, comme tâche primordiale, la libération de notre camarade et de tous les révoltés contre le colonialisme, le capitalisme et l'impérialisme.
C’est en ce sens que nous appelons tous ceux et celles qui sont du côté des peuples en lutte, du côté de la résistance palestinienne, qui combattent le capitalisme, l’impérialisme, le sionisme, le colonialisme et les états réactionnaires arabes, à participer activement et massivement à la semaine d’actions internationale prévue du 15 au 22 octobre 2016 et à manifester devant la prison à Lannemezan, le 22 octobre 2016 à 14h pour réaffirmer l’exigence de la libération de Georges Abdallah.
Campagne Unitaire pour exiger la libération de Georges Abdallah
Tract en PDF
✭✭✭ SEMAINE d’ACTIONS INTERNATIONALE du 15 au 22 octobre 2016
Concernant la région Ile de France : initiatives prévues.
✭✭✭ BUS pour LANNEMEZAN : inscription à l’adresse suivante campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com
☞ Départ de PARIS : le 21 octobre 2016, à 22h00.
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