Italy Appeals for Release of Activists on Hunger Strike in Libya
Global Sumud Flotilla is seeking medical and consular access for 10 detainees as two Italians remain in a hunger strike and Italy presses for their release.
- On Friday, Italy appealed for the release of two Italian activists detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight others, have refused food and water for four days to protest their imprisonment.
- Libyan authorities arrested the 10 activists for immigration violations on May 24 after they approached Sirte to negotiate safe passage for a humanitarian convoy intended for the Gaza Strip.
- According to Global Sumud Flotilla, the detainees are in their fifth day of a dry hunger strike with health rapidly deteriorating. The organization warned that "without immediate intervention, this humanitarian crisis will turn into a tragedy."
- Italian Consul Filippo Colombo has appealed to authorities for the release of the two nationals and requested permission to visit them in the isolated, non-civilian prison complexes where they are held.
- These activists represent a separate land-based delegation from Global Sumud Flotilla volunteers who attempted to reach Gaza by sea in May, when Israeli forces arrested 430 people aboard 50 ships.
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der Standard DEAccording to the organization, the pro-Palestinian activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla initiative have been on hunger strike for five days
Italy appeals for release of flotilla activists in Libya
ROME: Italy has appealed for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been refusing food and water for four days. Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters in May, to halt a flotilla of “Global Sumud Flotilla” volunteers trying to bring aid supplies to the
The 10 activists who participated in the caravan to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on land and who were arrested on May 24 as they attempted to cross eastern Libya have been without food or drink for five days. They began a hunger strike in protest of their imprisonment and the alleged ill-treatment suffered. Global Sumud Flotilla makes “an urgent appeal for life or death” for the release of the volunteers, according to a statement rel…
Italy Appeals for Release of Activists on Hunger Strike in Libya
Italy is urging the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian activists detained in Libya, along with eight others, who are on a hunger strike. The activists, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, were detained in May while attempting to bring aid to Gaza, and their health is critically deteriorating.
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ROME, June 5 - Italy appealed on Friday for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been refusing food and water for four days. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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