NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE [MEMBER OF TRANSCEND] AND CYNTHIA MCKINNEY SPEAK FROM AN ISRAELI JAIL CELL
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 3 Jul 2009
Free Gaza Team and Democracy Now!
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"This is Cynthia McKinney and I am calling from an Israeli prison."
Mairead Maguire: “Yes. We have just been locked into our cells now for a couple of hours. We are currently going through their process. We are being charged with entering illegally into Israeli—near Israeli shores. We are going, it looks like, to be deported from Israel. We did not choose to come to Israel. Our little boat was boarded by the navy combat soldiers, and they came in in full riot gear onto our boat when we were just twenty-five miles off the shore of Gaza. We were under gunpoint, forcibly taken to Ashdod, held in the detention center overnight. And then I was removed from Ashdod detention center, handcuffed in a military vehicle, and brought here to the prison, where we’re currently being held. All of us, all nineteen—there were twenty-one, but Huwaida and Lubna are out—but the rest of us are being held here in detention in this prison.”
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