17 December, online event: Free the Holy Land Five: Palestinian Political Prisoners in US Jails samidoun.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from samidoun.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A coalition of Palestine advocacy groups has launched a renewed effort to free members of the Holy Land Five who were imprisoned by the Bush administration 14 years ago.
The US destructive wars on Muslim countries launched in the wake of 9/11 under the misplaced rubric known notoriously as the War on Terror spawned senseless deaths and bloodshed on an unprece.
There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some