Facebook, Inc. Attn. Board of Directors 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025 Concerns: campaign targeting Facebook to adopt “IHRA definition of antisemitism” 7 September 2020 Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, dear….
Professor Imad Barghouthi, the Palestinian astrophysicist arrested in July who was then set to be released on bail, has been placed in administrative detention until November 15th by an order of an Israeli military commander. Administrative detention is a procedure employed by Israeli authorities to jail indefinitely without trial and without charges and used routinely against Palestinian, and it has been condemned by the UN. We share here a letter from Prof. Barghouthi on his current situation:
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NEW YORK—On September 2nd Dr. Imad Barghouthi, Professor of Physics at Al-Quds University, Palestine, was placed under administrative detention until November 15th by an order of an Israeli military commander….
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Published in the Lancet September, 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30237-0
Imad Barghouthi, the prominent Palestinian astrophysicist arrested by Israeli authorities last month, remains in arbitrary detention at the Ofer Israeli prison camp. A petition demanding his liberation has reached more than 1500 signatories, many of which distinguished scholars around the world. We publish here a letter addressed to the international scientific community that prof. Barghouthi wrote from prison.
For the attention of : EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs – Mr. Josep Borrell, Head of the EU Delegation to West Bank and Gaza Strip – Mr. Tomas Niklasson….
