Ahmad Sa'adat
| Ahmad Sa'adat احمد سعدات |
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Ahmad Sa'adat portrait by Carlos Latuff
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| Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | |
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Assumed office 3 October 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Abu Ali Mustafa |
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| Born | 1953 (age 63) al-Bireh, West Bank |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Political party | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Spouse(s) | Abla Sa'adat |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Ahmad Sa'adat (also transliterated from Arabic as Ahmed Sadat/Saadat, Arabic: احمد سعدات; born 1953) is a Palestinian militant and Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist, Palestinian nationalist organisation. Sa'adat graduated in 1975 from the UNRWA Teachers College, Ramallah, specializing in Mathematics.
Sa'adat was elected Secretary-General of the PFLP by its Central Committee in October 2001, to succeed Abu Ali Mustafa, after Mustafa was assassinated by Israelis at his office in Ramallah, the West Bank. He believes in the right of return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants back to their former homes.
Sa'adat had spent some 10 years in Israeli jails, on eight separate occasions. He was accused by Israel of organizing the assassination of the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, and took refuge in the Muqata'a headquarters of PLO leader Yassir Arafat, which was then besieged by Israel after Arafat refused to hand him over to Israel. As part of an agreement with Israel, Sa'adat was tried by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and imprisoned in Jericho prison in 2002. In the Palestinian elections of January 2006, Sa'adat was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council. On 14 March 2006, the US and British team monitoring Jericho prison left because of poor security conditions. On the same day, Israeli forces carried out the so-called Operation Bringing Home the Goods, taking Sa'adat and five other security prisoners into custody. On 25 December he was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 30 years jail. He is currently in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison and his health has deteriorated after frequent hunger strikes.
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