October
1984 – October 2024 : 40 years in prison, enough !
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released!
October
7th! The news is official : on October 7, 2024, the court of enforcement will
hold a hearing in Lannemezan to rule on the application for parole expulsion
filed more than a year ago by Georges Abdallah’s lawyer.
October
1984 - October 2024 : this decisive audience will mark, almost to the day, the
40 years of detention in France of our comrade.
October
1984 - October 2024 : we expect this hearing to lead to the decision to release
Georges Abdallah, this exceptional prisoner, the oldest political prisoner in
France and probably in Europe.
October
1984 - October 2024 : 40 years of detention after a conviction following an
iniquitous political-police montage and a first lawyer betraying his client by
working for the secret services, 40 years of detention despite the end of his
minimum sentence 25 years ago, 40 years of detention while twice his requests
for release were accepted at first instance... then rejected on appeal from the
public prosecutor’s office acting on orders from above !
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He who has had to face from the
beginning the measures and exceptional laws aggravating the norms of the
"rule of law" (special court of assizes, preventive detention...).
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He whose perpetual detention has been
denounced by many institutions and even former senior officials of the country.
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He who has already filed nine requests
for release. The last, dating back to 2012, having been accepted... under the
condition of a signature by the Minister of Home Affairs of a deportation
order, which M. Valls (like his successors) refused to sign. This miscarriage
of justice was commented in 2022 by the public rapporteur of the administrative
court :
“Such a
solution [the rejection of the request filed by Georges Abdallah’s lawyer] is
hardly satisfactory, but no other solution seems conceivable to us in the legal
framework. It is to be hoped that the situation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah can
evolve in other ways.” [...] “It is quite obvious that the continued detention
of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, for almost thirty-eight years, obeys to
considerations of an extra-judicial nature and which escapes you.”
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He who has thus constantly been the
object of pressure from political power, as when a justice minister, J.-J.
Urvoas, allowed himself to announce that "true life sentence" applies
to Georges Abdallah. He who has also been subject to pressure from the highest
authorities in the United States, demanding that the French government find a
way to keep Georges Abdallah in prison.
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He, whose country, Lebanon, has long
officially demanded his return.
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! We, the petitioners of this text,
proclaim and demand it and will not stop chanting, writing, displaying and
demonstrating it during a new and powerful month of protest until this date of
October 7.
This power
struggle, a decisive issue for the release of our comrade, we have built for
many years. We are now thousands and thousands, in France and around the world,
to organize ourselves, in various forms and respecting our differences, to
achieve our only purpose : freeing Georges Abdallah.
As our
comrade says, “Victory or victory!” That is why we will not give up anything
until this victory, and this by fully respecting the political identity of
Georges Abdallah, a Lebanese revolutionary militant, communist, fighter of the
liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. The one who will be freed is
indeed a symbol of resistance to oppression, which has never denied himself
throughout these 40 years behind walls. But it is in this lifelong struggle
that we also recognize the essential internationalist solidarity with the
struggles of the people for their liberation and their legitimate right to free
themselves from exploitation and domination.
In the
final stretch of this new legal offensive launched by Georges Abdallah, all of
us, petitioners of this text, commit ourselves to support his initiative by
making it resonate wherever we are, until the holding of this hearing on
October 7 - and if it is necessary even after, especially on October 26 where a
new national demonstration will take place in Lannemezan - to increase the
pressure on the French state and finally succeed in making it bend.
Thus, let
us increase the pressure to win even more, bearing in mind what Georges
Abdallah said to us in 2022: “The various initiatives you have developed in
this international campaign over the past month provide a stark negation of
those who were counting on the lack of momentum in your mobilization.”
Let a
thousand initiatives therefore flourish from September 7 to October 7, 2024 for
this international month of coordinated actions, everywhere in France, on the
streets and in the neighborhoods, in the universities and up to the Assembly,
on the walls and in the media, and abroad in front of French embassies and
consulates.
Let a
thousand initiatives flourish to finally obtain Georges Abdallah’s freedom by
making our solidarity cry heard: "Georges Abdallah, your comrades are
here!"
40 years of
imprisonment, a lifetime of struggle ! Freedom for Georges Abdallah !
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be freed! On October 7, Georges Abdallah will be free
!
Paris, 22
August 2024
United
Campaign for the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com
Facebook :
pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Instagram :
cuplgia – Tweeter : CUpLGIA
First
petitioners
Organisations
:
Campagne
Unitaire pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Collectif
pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (CLGIA)
Campagne
nationale pour la libération de Georges Abdallah (Liban)
Le CRI
Rouge pour la défense des prisonniers révolutionnaires
Comité
d’actions et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain
Secours
Rouge arabe
Ligue de la
Jeunesse Révolutionnaire (LJR)
La Cause du
Peuple
Jeunes
Révolutionnaires (JR)
Le Comité
de défense populaire de Tunisie
Plateforme
Charleroi-Palestine
Parti
révolutionnaire Communistes
Pôle de
renaissance communiste en France (PRCF)
Front Uni
des immigrations et des quartiers populaires (FUIQP)
Association
Femmes Plurielles
Union
Locale CGT d'Annecy& Environs
Association
Nationale des Communistes (ANC France)
Urgence
Palestine Marseille
Association
France Palestine Solidarité 63 (AFPS 63)
Poitiers
Palestine
Agir contre
le colonialisme aujourd'hui
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine
Parti
Communiste Arabe
NPA-l'Anticapitaliste-Ariège
Collectif
74 pour la Libération de Georges Abdallah (CLGA74)
Corsica Palestina
Parti Marxiste-Léniniste Italie (PMLI)
Confédération Nationale du Travail française (CNT-F)
OCML Voie Prolétarienne
Collectif "Bassin minier" pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (62)
Corriente
del Pueblo Sol Rojo (México)
Association
Couserans-Palestine
Parti
Communiste Révolutionnaire de France (PCRF)
Collectif
Palestine Vaincra
Comité
Action Palestine
Collectif
65 pour la Libération de Georges Abdallah (CLGA65)
Comité
solidarité Georges Abdallah Lille
Collectif
de soutien à la résistance palestinienne (CSRP59)
Ka Ubuntu
Solidarité
Indonésie
International
Solidarity Movement (ISM-France)
Communist
Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient (Luxembourg)
Nouvelle
Epoque
Fédération
Syndicale Etudiante (FSE national)
Anti-Imperialist
Collective (Danemark)
Collectif
ivryens pour la Palestine
Secours
International
Secours rouge
de Belgique
Association
Per a Pace, Pour la Paix (Corse)
Urgence
Palestine
Perspectives
musulmanes
Comité Gaza
United Saint-Etienne
Union 42
pour la Palestine
Union
Française des Consommateurs Musulmans
Syndicat
Etudiants Lycéens Apprentis 69 (SELA 69)
Comité pour
la libération de Georges Abdallah 38
Comité
Palestine Hérouville Caen
Action
Antifasciste Vienne
Brigade
Nice Garibaldi
Union
Démocrate Musulmans de France
Union
Communiste Libertaire
Thawra 13
Comité
Palestine 31
Collectif
69 Palestine Villefranche
Cumitatu di
Ricustruzzione di u Partitu Cumunistu (Corse)
Alba
Granada North Africa (Tunisie)
Mouvement des jeunes communistes du Rhône
Netzwerk Freiheit für alle Politische Gefangenen Hamburg (Allemagne) - Réseau « Liberté pour tous les prisonniers politiques » Hambourg (Allemagne)
Collectif
69 de soutien au Peuple Palestinien
Libérons
Georges 33
Secours
rouge Montréal (Canada)
Union juive
française pour la paix (UJFP)
Syndicat
national lycéen
Front
populaire révolutionnaire antifasciste - Clermont-Ferrand
Argenteuil
Solidarité Palestine
Syndicat
Etudiants Lycéens Apprentis 38 (SELA 38)
Centro
Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos – CEBRASPO (Brésil)
Action
Antifasciste Paris Banlieue
Front
Anti-impérialiste
Front
populaire (Turquie)
CGT Energie Paris
UL CGT Paris 18e
Cercle
Manouchian
Mar armado
de masas
Samidoun
Paris Banlieue
Parti des
Travailleurs (Turquie)
Les Amis de
la Palestine contre l’impérialisme et le sionisme (Turquie)
Soccorso
Rosso Proletario (Italie)
Comité
International de support à la guerre populaire en Inde (ICSPWI)
Proletari
Comunisti (Italie)
Jeunesse
Communiste 13
Comité
Saint-Denis Palestine
CGT-Fédération
Nationale des Industries Chimiques (CGT-FNIC)
Revue Teor
ive Politika (Turquie)
La Fosse aux
Lyons
Nouveau
Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA)
Comité
révolutionnaire de Madrid (Espagne)
Comité
révolutionnaire de Valence (Espagne)
Comité
révolutionnaire d'Albacete (Espagne)
Collectif
Vietnam-Dioxine
Collectif
Secours Rouge Marseille
Rassemblement
Organisé des Communistes Marxistes Léninistes (ROCML)
Personnalités,
individus - Premiers signataires :
Houria
Bouteldja - Youssef Boussoumah - Gabriel Casadesùs du Gers - Said Bouamama -
René Naba (journaliste écrivain) - Nicole Sainz (syndicaliste) - Dominique
Bathion (syndicaliste) - Alima Boumediene Thiery (avocate - Parlementaire
honoraire) - Martine Roussel - Raymond Blet (avocat honoraire) - Abderrahim
AFARKI, retraité - Saliha Ibersiene - Chris Den Hond (vidéo journaliste) -
Yasmine Kavass - K. Murali (Ajith) - Amparo IBANEZ - Georges Franco (artiste
peintre) - Jean-Pierre Métail - Alain Gresh (journaliste) - Marcel Bosonnet
(avocat Suisse) - Violette Daguerre (psychologue) - Annick COUPE (syndicaliste
et altermondialiste) - Carole Radureau - Viviane Baudry - Daniel Kupferstein -
Alain Guiraudie (cinéaste) - Sylvie Pepin Lehalleur (France Insoumise Paimpol)
- Marc Forestier (militant associatif Paris 13) - Jean-Pierre Maillard (ancien
président de l'association Partenia 2000) – Joan Raiola (Paris) - Jacques Pepin
Lehalleur (Professeur à la retraite - Caen) - Pierre FLAMENT (pacifiste, membre
du Mouvement de la Paix) - Christian Champiré (ex-maire PCF de Grenay, ville
qui a fait de Georges un "citoyen d'honneur" en 2012) - Patrice
Lardeux (militant CGT) – Timothée EspritOctober 1984 – October 2024 : 40 years
in prison, enough !
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released!
October
7th! The news is official : on October 7, 2024, the court of enforcement will
hold a hearing in Lannemezan to rule on the application for parole expulsion
filed more than a year ago by Georges Abdallah’s lawyer.
October
1984 - October 2024 : this decisive audience will mark, almost to the day, the
40 years of detention in France of our comrade.
October
1984 - October 2024 : we expect this hearing to lead to the decision to release
Georges Abdallah, this exceptional prisoner, the oldest political prisoner in
France and probably in Europe.
October
1984 - October 2024 : 40 years of detention after a conviction following an
iniquitous political-police montage and a first lawyer betraying his client by
working for the secret services, 40 years of detention despite the end of his
minimum sentence 25 years ago, 40 years of detention while twice his requests
for release were accepted at first instance... then rejected on appeal from the
public prosecutor’s office acting on orders from above !
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He who has had to face from the
beginning the measures and exceptional laws aggravating the norms of the
"rule of law" (special court of assizes, preventive detention...).
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He whose perpetual detention has been
denounced by many institutions and even former senior officials of the country.
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He who has already filed nine requests
for release. The last, dating back to 2012, having been accepted... under the
condition of a signature by the Minister of Home Affairs of a deportation
order, which M. Valls (like his successors) refused to sign. This miscarriage
of justice was commented in 2022 by the public rapporteur of the administrative
court :
“Such a
solution [the rejection of the request filed by Georges Abdallah’s lawyer] is
hardly satisfactory, but no other solution seems conceivable to us in the legal
framework. It is to be hoped that the situation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah can
evolve in other ways.” [...] “It is quite obvious that the continued detention
of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, for almost thirty-eight years, obeys to
considerations of an extra-judicial nature and which escapes you.”
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He who has thus constantly been the
object of pressure from political power, as when a justice minister, J.-J.
Urvoas, allowed himself to announce that "true life sentence" applies
to Georges Abdallah. He who has also been subject to pressure from the highest
authorities in the United States, demanding that the French government find a
way to keep Georges Abdallah in prison.
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! He, whose country, Lebanon, has long
officially demanded his return.
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be released ! We, the petitioners of this text,
proclaim and demand it and will not stop chanting, writing, displaying and
demonstrating it during a new and powerful month of protest until this date of
October 7.
This power
struggle, a decisive issue for the release of our comrade, we have built for
many years. We are now thousands and thousands, in France and around the world,
to organize ourselves, in various forms and respecting our differences, to
achieve our only purpose : freeing Georges Abdallah.
As our
comrade says, “Victory or victory!” That is why we will not give up anything
until this victory, and this by fully respecting the political identity of
Georges Abdallah, a Lebanese revolutionary militant, communist, fighter of the
liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. The one who will be freed is
indeed a symbol of resistance to oppression, which has never denied himself
throughout these 40 years behind walls. But it is in this lifelong struggle
that we also recognize the essential internationalist solidarity with the
struggles of the people for their liberation and their legitimate right to free
themselves from exploitation and domination.
In the
final stretch of this new legal offensive launched by Georges Abdallah, all of
us, petitioners of this text, commit ourselves to support his initiative by
making it resonate wherever we are, until the holding of this hearing on
October 7 - and if it is necessary even after, especially on October 26 where a
new national demonstration will take place in Lannemezan - to increase the
pressure on the French state and finally succeed in making it bend.
Thus, let
us increase the pressure to win even more, bearing in mind what Georges
Abdallah said to us in 2022: “The various initiatives you have developed in
this international campaign over the past month provide a stark negation of
those who were counting on the lack of momentum in your mobilization.”
Let a
thousand initiatives therefore flourish from September 7 to October 7, 2024 for
this international month of coordinated actions, everywhere in France, on the
streets and in the neighborhoods, in the universities and up to the Assembly,
on the walls and in the media, and abroad in front of French embassies and
consulates.
Let a
thousand initiatives flourish to finally obtain Georges Abdallah’s freedom by
making our solidarity cry heard: "Georges Abdallah, your comrades are
here!"
40 years of
imprisonment, a lifetime of struggle ! Freedom for Georges Abdallah !
On October
7, Georges Abdallah must be freed! On October 7, Georges Abdallah will be free
!
Paris, 22
August 2024
United
Campaign for the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com
Facebook :
pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Instagram :
cuplgia – Tweeter : CUpLGIA
First
petitioners
Organisations
:
Campagne
Unitaire pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Collectif
pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (CLGIA)
Campagne
nationale pour la libération de Georges Abdallah (Liban)
Le CRI
Rouge pour la défense des prisonniers révolutionnaires
Comité
d’actions et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain
Secours
Rouge arabe
Ligue de la
Jeunesse Révolutionnaire (LJR)
La Cause du
Peuple
Jeunes
Révolutionnaires (JR)
Le Comité
de défense populaire de Tunisie
Plateforme
Charleroi-Palestine
Parti
révolutionnaire Communistes
Pôle de
renaissance communiste en France (PRCF)
Front Uni
des immigrations et des quartiers populaires (FUIQP)
Association
Femmes Plurielles
Union
Locale CGT d'Annecy& Environs
Association
Nationale des Communistes (ANC France)
Urgence
Palestine Marseille
Association
France Palestine Solidarité 63 (AFPS 63)
Poitiers
Palestine
Agir contre
le colonialisme aujourd'hui
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine
Parti
Communiste Arabe
NPA-l'Anticapitaliste-Ariège
Collectif
74 pour la Libération de Georges Abdallah (CLGA74)
Corsica Palestina
Parti Marxiste-Léniniste Italie (PMLI)
Confédération Nationale du Travail française (CNT-F)
OCML Voie Prolétarienne
Collectif "Bassin minier" pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (62)
Corriente
del Pueblo Sol Rojo (México)
Association
Couserans-Palestine
Parti
Communiste Révolutionnaire de France (PCRF)
Collectif
Palestine Vaincra
Comité
Action Palestine
Collectif
65 pour la Libération de Georges Abdallah (CLGA65)
Comité
solidarité Georges Abdallah Lille
Collectif
de soutien à la résistance palestinienne (CSRP59)
Ka Ubuntu
Solidarité
Indonésie
International
Solidarity Movement (ISM-France)
Communist
Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient (Luxembourg)
Nouvelle
Epoque
Fédération
Syndicale Etudiante (FSE national)
Anti-Imperialist
Collective (Danemark)
Collectif
ivryens pour la Palestine
Secours
International
Secours
rouge de Belgique
Association
Per a Pace, Pour la Paix (Corse)
Urgence
Palestine
Perspectives
musulmanes
Comité Gaza
United Saint-Etienne
Union 42
pour la Palestine
Union
Française des Consommateurs Musulmans
Syndicat
Etudiants Lycéens Apprentis 69 (SELA 69)
Comité pour
la libération de Georges Abdallah 38
Comité
Palestine Hérouville Caen
Action
Antifasciste Vienne
Brigade
Nice Garibaldi
Union
Démocrate Musulmans de France
Union
Communiste Libertaire
Thawra 13
Comité
Palestine 31
Collectif
69 Palestine Villefranche
Cumitatu di
Ricustruzzione di u Partitu Cumunistu (Corse)
Alba
Granada North Africa (Tunisie)
Mouvement des jeunes communistes du Rhône
Netzwerk Freiheit für alle Politische Gefangenen Hamburg (Allemagne) - Réseau « Liberté pour tous les prisonniers politiques » Hambourg (Allemagne)
Collectif
69 de soutien au Peuple Palestinien
Libérons
Georges 33
Secours
rouge Montréal (Canada)
Union juive
française pour la paix (UJFP)
Syndicat
national lycéen
Front
populaire révolutionnaire antifasciste - Clermont-Ferrand
Argenteuil
Solidarité Palestine
Syndicat
Etudiants Lycéens Apprentis 38 (SELA 38)
Centro
Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos – CEBRASPO (Brésil)
Action
Antifasciste Paris Banlieue
Front
Anti-impérialiste
Front
populaire (Turquie)
CGT Energie Paris
UL CGT Paris 18e
Cercle
Manouchian
Mar armado
de masas
Samidoun
Paris Banlieue
Parti des
Travailleurs (Turquie)
Les Amis de
la Palestine contre l’impérialisme et le sionisme (Turquie)
Soccorso
Rosso Proletario (Italie)
Comité
International de support à la guerre populaire en Inde (ICSPWI)
Proletari
Comunisti (Italie)
Jeunesse
Communiste 13
Comité
Saint-Denis Palestine
CGT-Fédération
Nationale des Industries Chimiques (CGT-FNIC)
Revue Teor
ive Politika (Turquie)
La Fosse
aux Lyons
Nouveau
Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA)
Comité
révolutionnaire de Madrid (Espagne)
Comité
révolutionnaire de Valence (Espagne)
Comité
révolutionnaire d'Albacete (Espagne)
Collectif
Vietnam-Dioxine
Collectif
Secours Rouge Marseille
Rassemblement
Organisé des Communistes Marxistes Léninistes (ROCML)
Personnalités, individus - Premiers signataires :
Houria
Bouteldja - Youssef Boussoumah - Gabriel Casadesùs du Gers - Said Bouamama -
René Naba (journaliste écrivain) - Nicole Sainz (syndicaliste) - Dominique
Bathion (syndicaliste) - Alima Boumediene Thiery (avocate - Parlementaire
honoraire) - Martine Roussel - Raymond Blet (avocat honoraire) - Abderrahim
AFARKI, retraité - Saliha Ibersiene - Chris Den Hond (vidéo journaliste) -
Yasmine Kavass - K. Murali (Ajith) - Amparo IBANEZ - Georges Franco (artiste
peintre) - Jean-Pierre Métail - Alain Gresh (journaliste) - Marcel Bosonnet
(avocat Suisse) - Violette Daguerre (psychologue) - Annick COUPE (syndicaliste
et altermondialiste) - Carole Radureau - Viviane Baudry - Daniel Kupferstein -
Alain Guiraudie (cinéaste) - Sylvie Pepin Lehalleur (France Insoumise Paimpol)
- Marc Forestier (militant associatif Paris 13) - Jean-Pierre Maillard (ancien
président de l'association Partenia 2000) – Joan Raiola (Paris) - Jacques Pepin
Lehalleur (Professeur à la retraite - Caen) - Pierre FLAMENT (pacifiste, membre
du Mouvement de la Paix) - Christian Champiré (ex-maire PCF de Grenay, ville
qui a fait de Georges un "citoyen d'honneur" en 2012) - Patrice
Lardeux (militant CGT) – Timothée Esprit