Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam, along with all journalists, health workers, human rights defenders, and crew members of freedom flotilla vessels, is being detained at the Ketziot Prison, located in the Negev desert of Israel, says a press release issued by Drik.
Israel must guarantee the safety and human rights of all individuals aboard the Conscience and other vessels of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition intercepted on Wednesday, a United Nations expert said on the day in Geneva.
Eleven more ships are sailing towards the Gaza Strip in a bid to break the years-long Israeli blockade there, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition web site.
