ACT! Demand release of Ahmad Qatamesh 27Aug13 August 27, 2013
Alternative Information Centre   -   26 August 2103
The administrative detention of Palestinian writer and human rights activist, Ahmad Qatamesh, was extended for the seventh time in an Israeli military court on 24 August. No reasons were given for the extension.
Qatamesh has been held in administrative detention since 21 April 2011, when he was arrested from his home. Qatamesh, a political writer and university lecturer, was previously in administrative detention from 1992 to 1998.
 What can you do?
 Please write to Ahmad Qatamesh in Israeli prison:
Ahmad Qatamesh
Ofer Prison
Givat Zeev
POB 3007
via Israel
 Please press the TAKE ACTION BOX to send a letter of protest to H.E. margaret Sekaggya, UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, H.E. Riyad mansour, Ambassador, Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine and Brig. Gen. Danny Efroni, Military Judge Advocate General of Israel.
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 Additional information:
 Profile of Ahmad Qatamesh by Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Article by Ahmad’s daughter Hanin about his arrest
1988 interview with Ahmad Qatamesh
Thank You.