You
will find hereafter our 2007 campaign
for the release of Dr Al Shaer. We are now working on our Open
the doors campaign about Gaza. In 2006, when he was Minister of Education of the Palestinian
Authority, Dr Al Shaer gave his support to our non-violent
education program in the high schools of Palestinian
territories.
Communiqué calling
for the release of Dr Al
Shaer
"After
the sweep of some thirty elected members of the Palestinian government
and legislature in the West Bank by Israeli troops – among them the
Minister of Education, Dr Nasreddin Al Shaer – as a « response » to the
constant firing of kassams from Gaza, we ask for the immediate release
of those detained. Such moves can only make things worse, and fuel the
atrociously vain, deadly spiral of aggression and retaliation.
We
also call for an immediate and permanent end to all kassam firing, and
to all extra-judicial killings, as they so obviously feed each other
with innocent lives of by-standers slain, maimed, and traumatized by
countless hundreds.
'Mankind
and human dignity, the personality of the individual, have to be taken
as the
starting point of any dialogue.' (President Pöttering of the European
Parliament, at the Euro-Mediterranean assembly in Tunis, in March
2007)."
Co-signed by 22 Nobel Laureates : Medicine: Günter Blobel,
Arvid
Carlsson,
Christian de Duve,
Richard Roberts,
Roger Guillemin,
Edmond
Fischer,
Craig Mello, Marshall Nirenberg, Baruj Benacerraf
Chemistry: Sir
Harold Kroto,
Yuan
T. Lee,
Elias Corey,
Dudley Herschbach,
Douglas Osheroff,
John Polanyi,
Jens Skou, John Fenn
Peace: Desmond
Tutu,
Betty Williams,
Shirin
Ebadi
Physics: Frank Wilczek
Literature: Wole
Soyinka
18 Members of the European
Parliament:
France:
Alain Lipietz,
Kader Arif,
Françoise Castex
Sweden:
Anders Wijkman,
Eva-Britt Svensson
Italy:
Luisa Morgantini, Umberto Guidoni
Great-Britain:
Sajjad Karim,
Caroline Lucas, John Bowis
Belgium:
Frieda Brepoels
Cyprus:
Kyriacos Triantaphyllides
Finland:
Piia-Noora Kauppi
Denmark:
Margrete Auken
Lithuania:
Justas Paleckis, Aloyzas Sakalas
Portugal:
Jamila Madeira Spain : Willy Meyer-Pleite
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