Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is systematically tortured

TORTURE IS A HUMANITARIAN CRIME

Amid the ongoing assault on the leadership of the prisoners’ movement, in which prominent leaders of the Palestinian people and their resistance, especially those who are a high priority for release in a prisoner exchange, are being subjected to solitary confinement, beatings, starvation and torture, Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is being held in isolation in Megiddo prison.

He was assaulted and brutally beaten during his last transfer to isolation in Megiddo and has faced dangerous health conditions and denial of medical care, imprisoned in a situation not fit for human life. In a statement, the PFLP said that the attack on Sa’adat “comes in the context of a systematic and dangerous escalation targeting the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, aiming at their slow physical and psychological liquidation, through medical neglect, torture, abuse, isolation and systematic starvation.”

A number of leaders of the prisoners’ movement have been targeted, held in isolation, repeatedly beaten, starved and denied medical care, including Abdullah Barghouti, Hassan Salameh, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Ibrahim Hamed, Muammar Shahrour, Abbas al-Sayyed, Marwan Barghouti, Mohammed al-Natsheh and Muhannad Shreim.

This policy of “slow assassination” is part and parcel of the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, one manifestation of the ongoing assassination policy of the occupation targeting the leadership of the Palestinian resistance. We urge supporters of Palestine around the world to act and organize to demand their liberation and that of all Palestinian prisoners as part and parcel of ending the genocide in Gaza — on the road to the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.