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Samer Issawi

Samer Issawi’s Victory Letter – English and Arabic

(translation by Tariq Shadid – see Arabic original below) God is Great, Praise be to GodGod is Great, Praise be to GodGod is Great, Praise be to God I thank God above all for this victory, and for his generosity in granting it to me. To start this letter, I would like to offer my apology to all who supported...

Shireen Issawi holding Samer's picture

Samer Issawi’s letter in SEVEN languages

The translation of Samer Issawi’s letter by the Musical Intifada was taken up by wonderful activists from other countries, now resulting in translations from Arabic into six languages. Please share this page so that the message of our brave hunger striker can be read and understood in all corners of the world. The text is here below in: English, Arabic,...

Samer Issawi: ‘Either the light of freedom, or that of martyrdom’

Samer Issawi, the Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli incarceration who is on the longest continuous hunger strike recorded so far, has today entered his 203rd day of refusing food. This morning, his laywer Fawaz el Shaloudy spoke to him, and Samer said: “I swear that I will continue this strike, either to victory or martyrdom. I am almost at the...