MAHMOUD SARSAK

Palestinian footballer Mahmud Sarsak poses on March 26, 2013 in Paris, where he begins today a campaign for the cancelation of the under 21 Euro football championships to be held next June in Israel. Sarsak was arrested in July 2009 while on his way from Gaza to sign for a West Bank club and was held without charge under Israel’s “unlawful combatants” law. He staged a hunger strike of nearly three months before being freed from Jails. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET