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Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam: A Romantic Prison Overlooking a River, Cafe, Nightclub and Swimming Pool

A Romantic Prison Overlooking a River, Cafe, Nightclub and Swimming Pool

A trendy Cafe made of glass in front of the Jail. Pic. Credit: Kawther Salam

سجن رومانسي يطل على نهر ومقهى وملهى ومسبح ومرقص ليلي في فيلد كيرخ في فورال بيرغ

Contrary to the awful horrors of the US and Israeli prisons, which deservedly have grim reputations due the crimes against humanity which are perpetrated there against political prisoners, the Austrian Court of Justice in Feldkirch in western Austria, which was established under the government of Kaiser Franz Josef I in 1905, sports a jail which is almost romantic.

The jail of the Feldkirch Court of Justice has windows overlooking the city of Feldkirch and the Ill River, which flows from the northern slopes of the Silvretta mountain range and then runs north-west through Vorarlberg. The Silvretta Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps shared by Tirol, Vorarlberg (both in Austria) and Graubünden in Switzerland. Only the public street separates between the prison and the river.

From the left side, the prison overlooks a trendy Cafe made of glass, where the prisoners could hear the music during the day and until late hours of the evening. Only a few meters separate between the jails walls and this modern Café. The jail also overlooks a swimming hall which is often used for cultural events and as Nightclub, and beyond is the cities’ Music Conservatory. A beautiful green and flowering garden separates between the jail and swimming hall.

From the corner of the jail, the windows overlook a pedestrian bridge over the Ill River used by many people, couples kissing, enjoying time while hanging locks to symbolize their love at the sides of the bridge, perhaps also as a sign of willing to share a life together.

From behind, the jail windows give view to the green and mountainous forests of the Alps covered with snow flecks on the Swiss side. The jail surrounded with comparatively low walls, where one can see short barbed wire, less than half a meter over the top of the wall.

Standing in front of the Jail windows

What called my attention was that the prisoners are allowed the view from the windows of the jail which lets them see the free people enjoying their full freedom, sitting at the Café, drinking coffee or wine, listening to music and meeting their friends and acquaintances. No one knows how the prisoners feel while watching these scenes in the nearby Café made of glass. No one knows why the Café made of glass is directly in front of the jails windows.

The echoes of music from the swimming pool and club, which resonate from the nearby mountains until late hours, can also be heard by the inmates of the prison, who can overlook the hall, where cultural activities of city are held and respectable inhabitants of the city enjoy music and party. It must be hard for prisoners, held behind locked doors and walls, to see normal life, even festivities, being held under the barred windows of their jail.

It is not known if the prisoners dance in their cells while hearing the music from the nearby venues. Neither is it known why the city issued a license for the beautiful Café made of glass near the jail. Is this perhaps some sort of psychological torture next to the harsh sentences of these people? Or are the presence of the Café house, the nightclub and the beautiful view from the windows perhaps a show of kindness and compassion meant as relief to the prisoners from the pain of being lonely while held in prison? Is this justice or injustice?

A beautiful green and flowering garden separates between the jail and swimming hall (Pool Club).

Whatever my be the case, the prison of Feldkirch in its own human situation confirms without doubt that Austria respects the life of the individual and its residents and does not exercise suppression, violations of human rights by the overt practice of crimes such as torture and sexual abuses of the prisoners, practiced by many countries which called themselves “developed” and whose representatives all the while continue talking about human rights, like the prominent examples of zionist israel (and its occupation) and the USA, who openly keep “secret” jails, where everybody knows prisoners are tortured, used for medical experiments or even murdered in various Arab countries.

The US even supports and builds the jails for dictatorial regimes in Arab countries, like what they are doing now in my homeland Palestine, were the human rights situation has deteriorated drastically under the “Palestinian Authority”, a mafia under US military control, a corrupt body which loots the donations meant for poor people and whose bodies perpetrate all kind of crimes against members of the Palestinian civil society, politicians, academics, students, journalists etc. at its jails.

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Urgent Appeal From Al-Aqaba Village

The destruction of Al-Salam street in Al-Aqaba


International Solidarity Movement  July 25, 2012

To the embassies, consulates, and international, Arab, and Islamic representative offices;
To domestic and international humanitarian and human rights organizations;
To all domestic and international media outlets that have visited the steadfast village of Aqaba, and to those that have not visited;
To Israeli humanitarian and human rights organizations;

Al-Salam (Peace) Street remains closed before your eyes and to the residents of Al-Aqaba village since 18 April 2012.

Al-Aqaba is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, which is being targeted for demolition by theIsraeli “Civil” Administration (the IDF agency responsible for controlling the West Bank). Surrounded by two Israeli military bases and a ‘virtual wall’ of checkpoints. Al-Aqaba’s connections to neighboring communities, markets and the Jordan Valley have been gradually severed: since 1967, al-Aqaba’s population has decreased by 85%, dropping from around 2,000 to 300 today. While many al-Aqaba residents no longer live in the village itself, they still hope to return to their land, and still send their children to the local school. The village is located in Area (C) of the West Bank on the edge of the Jordan Valley, the village is under complete Israeli military control and civil jurisdiction.

The people of Al-Aqaba village call upon you to intervene to open Al-Salam Street, which was destroyed and then closed by the Israeli military on 18 April 2012. Israel knows that the people of this small village call for peace despite the injuries and the harassment inflicted upon them and despite the fact that they are deprived of vital services, particularly drinking water; they are denied the right to build; are isolated and blockaded; and they are frequently served with demolition orders for their homes, their roads, their agricultural land, and the entrances to their village.
We place this sacred trust in each and every one of your hands, without exception, to immediately intervene to open Al-Salam Street in Al-Aqaba, in order to help the isolated residents, particularly the farmers, the students, and the sick.

We reiterate our call for a resolution to the problem of Al-Salam Street.

The destruction of Al-Salam street in Al-Aqaba

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Arafat's Widow Demands Exhumation Of Late President

من قاتل عرفات يا عباس؟؟؟

According to Al-Jazeera “An investigation that lasted 9 months revealed that high levels of the radioactive and toxic of substance Polonium was found in the personal belongings used shortly before his death of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, president of Palestine Liberation Organization and none of the rumors published before revealed that Arafat might have been killed by cancer or cirrhosis of the liver. Even allegations that he was infected with HIV were published. Actually, Arafat was in good health until he suddenly fell very ill on October 12, 2004”.

The late President Arafat was besieged by the criminal Israeli ground forces and tanks in his compound in Ramallah. During this siege, many jewish zionist groups visited him and even spent long time with him under the pretense of being “peace activists” offering themselves as human shield in his defence.

After the deterioration of Arafats’s health, he was transferred for medical tests to a French military hospital near Paris, where he spent his final days alone with his wife Suha and undergoing medical tests and examinations. The hospital did not reveal anything about the cause of Arafat’s death, the report of the French ONLY mentions the names of the different poisons they tested while trying to pinpoint the exact substance used to poison Arafat.
The toxic substance Polonium was detected in the clothes of Arafat after laboratory tests conducted by the prestigious SwissInstitute of Radiation Physics in Lausanne. Tests made included the clothing worn by Arafat before his death, among the items tested were his hat and his Kaffiyeh, according to Al-Jazeera. The tests were done on clothes of the late President which were given by Suha to the doctors. They did not show any signs of toxic heavy metals or conventional poisons, what led the interest of the doctors towards making tests for more exotic materials, including Polonium, a highly radioactive substance used to provide energy for the spacecraft and which is only produced in meaningful quantities in nuclear reactors.

“I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids,” said Dr. Francois Bochud, the director of the Swiss institute. The press release states that Polonium got its fame in 2006 after it was revealed that Russian spy Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was killed with Polonium in London. The full press release of the Swiss Institute of Radiation Physics in French is here http://www.chuv.ch/ira/ira_home/actu-xml-list/actueve_detail.htm?id=3278

Suha Arafat, the widow of the late President Arafat, demanded in her talk to Al-Jazeera that the body of her late husband be exhumed for examination in order to ascertain the radiation poisoning. She said: “I demand that the Palestinian Authority collaborate to extract the remains of Arafat, who is buried in Ramallah in the West Bank, to verify the radiation poisoning”. The Central Committee of Fatah expressed its willing to cooperate to investigate the details of Arafat’s death.

Suha commented on the Al-Jazeera report: “We have reached the extremely painful result and this at least will take part of the burden heaped over my chest. At least I did something to say to the Palestinian people, the Arabs and Muslims all over the world that Arafat’s departure was not a natural death. It was a crime”.

She added: “The results, that they discovered the polonium in his blood, and radioactive polonium in his clothing, on his hat, on the hair, in his underwear, and it’s not the quantity that they found – polonium, it’s all over actually, it’s a substance – but they found a very high quantity of polonium. It means that it’s not a natural death”. Read more.

Here, I’m seeing a crime. And if I tell you that this laboratory is the best laboratory in the world, in Switzerland, they put their name in this, and their reputation.

Suha noted that she expects support from the Palestinian Authority, President Abu Mazen and the Yasser Arafat Foundation, to uncover the truth after the this important issue was disclosed. She demanded that the Palestinian attorney general give his approval to the competent authorities to extract the remains of Arafat. She also called on the Islamic scholars to release a Fatwa of allowing the exhumation. She requested from the League of Arab States and the United Nations to cooperate to investigate the dimensions of what she called the assassination of Arafat.

Suha said that the Palestinian leader’s daughter Zahwa collaborated with the respected scientific team, which has taken a sample of DNA to compare with the DNA of Arafat. She stated that this was the discharge of her responsibility to the coming generation of Palestinians. Read the full report on Al-Jazeera.