_Interview with Ala Jaradat _

Fight Back! interviewed Ala Jaradat, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank and is the program manager for Addameer – a Palestinian prisoners support group. Ala Jaradat was in the Twin Cities in November and spoke at Hamline Law School and the University of Minnesota, during a nine-city tour of the United States. Israel currently holds more than 8000 Palestinian political prisoners.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat:

Lucha y Resiste entrevistó al encarcelado Secretario General del Frente Popular por la Liberación de Palestina (FPLP), Ahmad Saadat, el 20 de Mayo. En momentos en que los ojos del mundo están enfocados en el Medio Oriente, nosotros agradecemos la oportunidad de traerles a ustedes, nuestros lectores, el pensamiento, en sus propias palabras, de uno de los líderes claves de la resistencia Palestina.

Fight Back! interviewed the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, on May 20. At a time when the eyes of the world are focused on the Middle East, we are grateful for the opportunity to bring you, our readers, the thoughts of one of the key leaders of the Palestinian resistance in his own words.

Palestinian Prisoners' Day, commemorated throughout Palestine and by solidarity activists the world over, April 17, is a day to bring attention to the plight of all Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails and to demand their immediate release.

Fight Back! News Service is circulating the following statement demanding the release of Palestinian political prisoner Ahmad Saadat. Saadat is the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement that demands the release of Ahmad Sa'adat, one of the key leaders of the struggle to liberate Palestine. Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was interviewed by Fight Back! in May 2003, a year after his incarceration.

In the upcoming elections for the Palestinian Authority’s Palestinian Legislative Council in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Ahmad Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has announced his candidacy from jail.

Fight Back! received the following press release from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, regarding the attack by the Israeli occupation forces against the Jericho prison where Ahmad Sa'adat and other leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation for Palestine have been imprisoned since 2002. Protests have erupted all over Palestine and we encourage people all over the world to protest this outrageous action. In the U.S., emergency protests are planned in Chicago and Minneapolis, among other cities.