The West Bank's Bobby Sands

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khader-adnan-the-west-banks-bobby-sands-6988943.html

Khader Adnan: The West Bank's Bobby Sands

Khader Adnan's two-month hunger strike has made him a hero among Palestinians outraged by Israel's policy of arbitrary detention

It was only after talking with lucidity and animation for an hour about her husband's 61-day hunger strike that Randa Jihad Adnan's eyes, visible though the opening of her nekab, filled with tears. Until then, this articulate 31-year-old graduate in sharia law from Al Najar University in Nablus, the pregnant mother of two young daughters aged four and one and half, had described with almost disconcerting poise the two months following the arrest of her husband, Khader Adnan, on 17 December.

He was seized at 3.30am by some of the scores of Israeli military and security personnel who surrounded the family home in a West Bank village south of Jenin, and is now being held in the Israeli Rebecca Ziv hospital in Safed. On Wednesday she was allowed to visit him with the children and her father-in-law. (more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khader-adnan-the-west-banks-bobby-sands-6988943.html

(and if you are asking "who was Bobby Sands?" He was an Irish poet and activist who died in a hunger strike in 1981 in prison during "the troubles" in Ireland) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands

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1. Amnesty International Petition

http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action-Israel-End-use-of-administrative-detention

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2. Bobby Sands was first and foremost a Provo with a documented history of violence

To describe him as merely an activist is to minimize his legacy.

Its not clear that Khader Adnan has the same kind of past or not.