Twitter Trends! A Follow Up from Yesterday.

UPDATE: Use the hashtag #CoverHanaDay20 to help get Hana Shalabi media attention! Now please, read my blog post.  Thanks friends!

So yesterday I posted about Khader Adnan and Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and their separate hunger strikes and how Twitter helped Adnan earn his freedom (he's being released in mid-april).  Here's a mini update of sorts.

Khader Adnan (@KhaderAdnan) is still going to be released in mid-April (woot!), the specific date has yet to be released.  But in one hour (2 o'clock Eastern Time, 9 pm Palestine, etc.), he and his followers will be doing a Twitter campaign for Hana Shalabi's 20th day on hunger strike. The hashtag used hasn't been released yet, but I'll start tweeting about it once it is.

 Some brief back story of Shalabi's imprisonment: "Hana Shalabi was released from over two years in administrative detention on 18 October 2011, as part of the prisoner exchange deal concluded by the Israeli government and Hamas, whereby 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners were released in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Hana was re-arrested less than four months later on 16 February 2012, and immediately began a hunger strike in protest of her detention." Her sentence has been reduced a bit but she's still striking strong.  Let's help her out!

side note: hunger strikes are very good ways for getting noticed.  they also seem to be in now.

Now for Abdulhadi Alkhawaja's update.  His freedom group is trying to get him more media attention as well.  Tomorrow, Wednesday, his freedom group (@khawajastrike) will be protesting, tweeting, etc. about his imprisonment.  Remember, he's on day 26 of his hunger strike.  I'll be tweeting about everything that I can find out about it, so follow me for any updates if you're not already following his twitter. 

Leslie's out for now!
@see_you_sLATER

Please, follow these accounts and let's try and help Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and Hana Shalabi get released!