France: AIL – Section France: Freedom for Ahmed Sa’adat and all Palestinian and Lebanese Prisoners
We hereby share a statement published on the website of the International Anti-Imperialist League.
Proletarian of all countries, unite!
The question of Palestinian prisoners is central to the national liberation struggle. These fighters, foremost among them comrade Commander Ahmed Sa’adat, Secretary-General of the Popular Front, embody the true meaning of revolutionary commitment as they face the colonial repression machine with legendary steadfastness, facing all forms of brutality and repression that have intensified in the last months with increased ferocity. Prisoners are the leaders of the struggle inside the prisons and a living symbol of the unity and steadfastness of our people. To defend them is to defend the very essence of Palestinian cause.
PFLP – April 2026
Since January 15, 2002, the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Sa’adat, has been under arrest and detention. He still continues to fight from the prisons where he has led the prisoners’ movement and represents a unifying figure for the entire Palestinian people and all the prisoners, transcending factional affiliations. More than 24 years later, he is still detained in Zionist jails, alongside nearly 10,000 other Palestinian prisoners, including more than 350 children. Over 3,000 prisoners are held in administrative detention, without any judgment or trial. Let’s also remember that 23 Lebanese prisoners are held in Zionist jails, and that probably several Syrians captured in 2025 and 2026 are also in prison without judgment. Prison conditions in Zionist jails, which have always been disastrous and inhumane, have reached a new level of horror since October 7, 2023. Cases of mistreatment, torture, starvation, solitary confinement, medical neglect and rape are countless. It’s a true hell on earth. Nearly 90 prisoners have been murdered in the occupation’s prisons since October 7, 2023, amid the almost complete silence of the international community. The struggle for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners isn’t a simple humanitarian struggle. Through the highlighting of the barbarism of the Zionist occupation, it has other objectives; in particular, to defend the lives of those who have fought for the liberation of their occupied homeland. The resistance fighter Ahmed Sa’adat, like Marwan Bargouthi, is a symbol of unity. To fight for the defense of his life and to require his freedom means to take him as an example of all Palestinian people in the Zionist jails. It’s therefore not a struggle for one person, but for all prisoners in Zionist jails. Even more since the recent law passed by the Israeli Assembly regarding the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, it’s urgent to mobilize and develop the struggle nationally and internationally in a coordinated way in support of them. To defend Ahmed Sa’adat freedom is to support the Palestinian Liberation Movement and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. To defend Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners is to affirm that these beacons of resistance that they are, cannot and must not been abandoned, and that all Zionist brutality will not make them submit. To defend Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners is to defend the right of oppressed nations to their liberation, a right recognized by the UN, but whose support is repressed in many countries, including here in France. It means requiring and fighting for the international community and the UN to ensure that the basic human rights of Palestinians are respected.
We are calling for a major day of action on April 17, the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, reaching beyond country’s borders to require the freedom of comrade Ahmed Sa’adat and all Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners.
Freedom for all Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners! Freedom for Ahmed Sa’adat!
Down with imperialism!
Palestine will live, Palestine will win!
Organisations :
Ligue Anti Impérialist (France), Forum de la Jeunesse de l’épée d’Al Qods ; Réseau mondial : nous sommes tous Gaza, nous sommes tous la Palestine ;
Jeunesse du WATAD ; CRPC (Corse) ; Ligue Sénégalaise de solidarité avec la Palestine ; Campagne mondiale “un million de signatures pour les prisonniers palestiniens” ; AGEB (Union des travailleurs immigrées en Europe) ; Partizan (Turquie) ; PSTA (Martyrs et prisonniers de l’organisation Partizan) ; Initiative Tunisienne pour la Liberation des Prisonniers de la Cause Palestinienne ; Parti Révolutionnaire de tous les peuples Africains ; Jeunesse Communiste ; Fédération Syndicale Étudiante ; ILPS ; Supernova ; Comité de Soutien à la Révolution en Philipines ; Front Anti Impérialiste ; Union pour la Reconstitution Communiste ; Young Struggle ; Solidaires Étudiant.e.s syndicat de Lutte ; Coordination National des CPES ; Parti Révolutionnaire Communiste ; Organisation Communiste de France ; On ne veut plus ! ; Union des Démocrates Musulmans de France ; Ka Ubuntu ; Mouvement Kanak de France ; Cellule Parisienne de Mobilisation pour la Kanaky ; Ceini Nhyei ; Union pour la Palestine – Marseille ; Comité Action Palestine Bordeaux ; Comité de Défense de la Palestine (Montpellier) ; Action Antifasciste Amiens ; Collectif Palestine Libre Montpellier ; Palest’Nimes ; Anti Colonial (Lyon) ; Comité Anti Impérialiste d’Amiens ; Comité Palestine Lille ; Arles pour la Palestine ; Collectif Palestine 37 ; Association Secours Palestinien ; Comité Limousin Palestine, La Teinturerie (Somme) ; Kifah (Nantes) ; Réseau Université sans Frontières 34 ; Collectif Palestine 37 ; Local Hassan Kanafani (Marseille) ; Défense Collective (Amiens) ; EMF – Lille ; Action Palestine Lorraine ; Comité Palestine Paris Cité
Personalities :
Nidia Díaz, former commander of the Farabundo Marti Front of National Liberation. (Salvador), Evo Morales, former president (Bolivia) ; Ricardo Gadea, former guerrilla – Brother-in-law of Ernesto Che Guevara (Peru) Cesar Montes, former Commander of Guatemala; Dalida Said, Movimiento PUEDE, United Fatherland In Democracy (Ecuador) ; Lois Pérez Leira, Executive Secretary of the International Anti-Imperialist of the Pueblos; Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize. (Argentina) ; Lorena Lores, singer and actress (Argentina); Mariem Labidi (Tunisia) Rafael Mendez (Dominican Republic) ; Fernanda Lores Doural, artist (Argentina); Xavier Moreda, human rights activist (Spain); José Manuel Rivero Pérez. Lawyer (Canaries) ; Daniel Jadue, architect and sociology (Chile) ; Commander César Montes and Commander Pablo Monsanto (Guatemala); Santiago Masseti, co-head of Latin Press in Argentina; Carlos Aznarez, director of Resumen Latinoamericano. (Spain) ; Cesar Rodriguez director of Radio Samborondon (Canaries); Fernanda Pereyra, referee of Quebracho (Argentina) ; Gonzalo Armua, Secretary of International Relations of Patria Grande (Argentina); Juan Carlos Moneder, co-founder of Podemos. Professor. (Spain) ; David Porras, influencers, activist of the Pacto Historico (Colombia); Oscar Lomba, Director of Podemos (Spain)
The Anti-imperialist League (France), 11/04/2026
