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20 June 2014

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Sinn Féin MEPs’ solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

Sinn Féin MEPs Lynn Boylan, Liadh Ní Riada, Martina Anderson and Matt Carthy


GUE/NGL MEPs, including the four newly-elected Sinn Féin MEPs – Martina Anderson, Lynn Boylan, Liadh Ní Riada and Matt Carthy – have shown their solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike by reiterating their support to the fight for justice for Palestinian people and Palestinian prisoners.

Palestine hunger strike families

The MEPs are calling on EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton and Council President Herman Van Rompuy to publicly condemn Israel's use of “administrative detention” and to demand that Israel applies international laws on human rights that would protect the rights of the hunger strikers and Palestinian prisoners in general.

Since 24 April, nearly 300 Palestinian detainees and prisoners have been on hunger strike against Israel's unjust administrative detention policy and to highlight Israel's violation of a 2012 agreement that stipulated the use of administrative detention should be limited.

In reality, administrative detention is ordered frequently by the Israeli military for any act of opposition to the Israeli occupation.

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