[L-I] 2 Press Releases from the PFLP

PFLP Press Releases

4 June 2002

Press Release

Commenting on the decision of the leadership of the Palestine Authority to
continue detaining Comrade Ahmad Saadat, the General Secretary of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on its latest act of submission to
Israeli dictates, and on its non-implementation of the order of the Palestinian
Supreme Court immediately to release Comrade Ahmad Saadat, the General
Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a responsible
source in the Popular Front stated the following:

1. The decision of the leadership of the Palestine Authority not to release
immediately Comrade Saadat constitutes a new act of submission to Israeli
dictates and pressures. It makes the freedom of Saadat, and of his comrades and
brothers who are being held as prisoners in the Authority's prisons,
dependent upon an Israeli decision.

2. The Palestine Authority and its agencies have failed to protect the
people, their institutions, and fighters, including the headquarters of
President Arafat. The Authority therefore has no right to use as an excuse the
need to keep Comrade Saadat and other militants in prison for their protection.
The
imprisonment of the militants, and in the first place of Saadat, is not the
appropriate way to protect them from the violence of the occupation. Protecting
them means to set them free, for they and their people are the guarantors of
their self-defense.

3. Throwing aside the order of the supreme court to free Saadat immediately
indicates the Authority's lack of seriousness about carrying out the needed
reforms and its lack of respect for the rule of law, for the highest legal body
represented by the Supreme Court of Justice, and for human rights.

4. We call on the leadership of the Palestine Authority to review its
decision and to release immediately Comrade Saadat and all the political
prisoners and those being held for resisting the occupation. They are better
able to defend their persons than are the British and American soldiers.

5. We call on all the forces and organizations that believe in democracy,
human rights, the rule of law, and the right of our people to resist the
occupation and to live in freedom, to move to force the leadership of the
Palestine Authority to implement the order of the Palestinian Supreme Court of
Justice that calls for the release of Saadat, and not allow it to drive a big
nail into
the coffin of reform and democracy. We must reject the Israeli and American
pressures aimed at imposing a police state upon our people in service of
American and Israeli interests.

Press Office
Palestine
4 June 2002.

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3 June 2002

Press Release

Ramallah: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has issued a
declaration in which it hailed the order of the Palestinian Supreme Court of
Justice for the immediate release of Comrade Ahmad Saadat, the General
Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The
declaration stressed that the court ruling,

1. Places President Arafat and the Palestine Authority before a clear and
obvious legal obligation which they must enforce,

2. Places the Palestine Authority before a test of the credibility of its
decision to ratify the law on the independence of the courts.

3. Places particular responsibility upon all Palestinian forces,
institutions, and political and popular bodies to act to implement this
court order.

4. The immediate release of Comrade Ahmad Saadat and action to that end
constitute a test for all those who call for the rule of law, democracy,
human rights, and reform, regardless whether they are Palestinians, Arabs,
or people from around the world.

5. The Popular Front affirms that it will end the suspension of its
participation in meetings of the Executive Committee of the Palestine
Liberation Organization as soon as the Palestine Authority carries out the court
order.

6. The Popular Front demands that Palestine Authority respect the court
order, and respect its own signature on the Authority's law on the courts;
and that it immediately release the Front's General Secretary. This is a matter
that constitutes a real test of the intention to bring about reform and change
in
the Palestine Authority.

The Popular Front also called on all Palestinian forces and personalities to
work for the implementation of these rulings.

Press Office
Palestine
3 June 2002.


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