Proletarian of all countries, unite!
Freedom for Ahmed Sa’adat and all Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners
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 of 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 his life defense and to require his freedom means using him like the reflect of 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 to 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 project and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. To defend Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners is to affirm that these beacon 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!
The antiimperialist League (France), 11/04/2027
