Week 16: Administrative Detention Online Gathering

We learned how administrative detention is used by Israeli occupation forces. Our guest was Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator for Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

More about our guests:

Charlotte Kates is the international coordinator of Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. She is also the coordinator of the International Committee of the U.S. National Lawyers Guild and a member of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

You can find Samidoun on their website https://samidoun.net/ and follow them on Facebook https://facebook.com/SamidounPrisonerSolidarity, Twitter https://twitter.com/SamidounPP, and https://instagram.com/samidounnetwork.

You can follow her on Twitter.

From the Discussion/Chat

• You can find Samidoun’s Free Palestinian Students campaign at https://freepalestinianstudents.org/ 
• No Way to Treat a Child is at https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org 
• Palestinian Prisoners’ Week information is at https://samidoun.net/2021/04/action-call-from-occupied-palestine-palestinian-prisoners-week-17-23-april-2021/ 
• Addameer’s campaign against military courts is at https://www.addameer.org/campaign/against-military-courts-campaign 
• Addammer is at https://www.addameer.org.
• World Vision’s latest (I think) statement on the Mohammed al-Halabi case is at https://www.wvi.org/jerusalem-west-bank-gaza/mohammad-el-halabi-trial-overview 
• If you want to learn more, Addameer just held a two hour webinar called “#FreeThemAll​: In Sumoud and Solidarity from the U.S. to Palestine” It is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJlVO3Yf9c4.