CPT has asked San Pablo community leaders how the public can support their movement for protection of fundamental human rights.  The San Pablo leaders request that the international community apply pressure by sending written appeals for an investigation into the death of Edgar Martinez Ruiz, the other victims of assassination, and the death threats made against human rights organizations.  The leaders wish to receive these letters by email so they can personally deliver them to the authorities.  The team requests that you send these letters before 14 July 2009, so that a CPT delegation in the country at that time may also participate in delivering letters.

During the time I have been in prison so far (almost three months when writing this), I have not been met by even a harsh word, threat or any physical abuse what so ever. Neither have I seen any violence, physical or psychological, between anyone in prison.  The heaviest weapon the guards carry is a pepper spray. ''I have never had to use it," says a woman in her forties who has worked many years as a guard. "I use this instead" she says and points to her mouth. "It solves almost all conflicts."  …At one lunch, I had a philosophical discussion with a twenty-nine-year old female guard about the difference between determinism and utilitarianism. 

He was a little boy, with dark hair and hazel eyes like my eldest grandson.  He was even the same height, so I imagined him to be eight years old, just like my grandson.  He had the most frightened look on his face.  Six Israeli soldiers had him trapped.  They were rapidly marching downhill along the side street that leads to the main road going into the Old City of Hebron; the part of the city riddled by a roadway of tunnels close to the military post into which Palestinians disappear for questioning and beatings.  My partner on street patrol and I did not take long to size up the situation.  The Israeli soldiers literally had the boy by the scruff of his neck as they dragged him along.  There was no hovering adult walking alongside, who, if not able to help, could at least try to be with him.