Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a New York based Palestinian Human Rights Defender collapsed and died on Wednesday 21st July 2004 as he finished speaking at an event in Philadelphia, USA. Farouk was speaking at a panel discussion titled “Detentions and Torture: Building Resistance” at the Philadelphia Ethical Society. Farouk had been released on the 12th of April 2004 from 718 days in immigration detention, including over 250 days in solitary confinement. He had spoken in Philadelphia of his own experience and of the need to build a movement against detentions. 
