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Es wurden von der NATO Brunnen vergiftet, tonnenweise Uranmunition verschossen, Senfgas und Phosphormunition, Streubomben und so ziemlich alles an international geächteten Waffen gegen die libysche Bevölkerung eingesetzt. Es war der größte und schlimmste Massenmord zu Beginn dieses Jahrtausends. AI war vor Ort, hatte die Leichenberge gesehen, mit betroffenen Menschen gesprochen, sich von allem ein Bild gemacht und anschließend – geschwiegen.

Mainstream news reports of the prisoner swap have focused overwhelmingly on the humanity of Gilad Shalit (who suffered a horrific and harrowing ordeal, to be sure). Implicitly, however, these reports deny the humanity of Palestinian prisoners and leave Western audiences with the mistaken impression that Palestinians are imprisoned only for egregious crimes.

International Tadamun society for human rights said the Palestinian administrative detainees in the Israeli Megiddo prison are living under extremely bad conditions and deprived of their rights. This came after the society's lawyer met with the oldest administrative detainee Ahmed Saqer in Ofer court and listened from him to the incarceration conditions of administative prisoners in Israeli jails especially in Megiddo jail. Saqer explained that the prisoners in Megiddo jail are deprived of pursuing their education and receiving visits from their families. They are also exposed to constant humiliation such as strip-searching them and transferring them from one jail to another. The prisoner told the lawyer that the administrative detainees may take protest steps against the prison administration unless it stops its repressive measures against them.

Allan Lissner is an award-winning photographer, videographer, editor, and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. Some of the organizations Allan has done work with include Amnesty International, GlobalAware, the Indigenous Environmental Network, KAIROS, Oxfam, Make Poverty History, the Norwegian Church Aid, the Ontario Council for International Cooperation, the United Nations Development Program, and the United Nations Women’s Association in Bangladesh.