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PFLP congratulates Shigenobu on liberation from Japanese prison

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 28 May 2022 13:54
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Following the release of Japanese revolutionary freedom fighter Fusako Shigenobu, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stresses that the Palestinian people would never forget her sacrifices.

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  • Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu following her release from prison in Akishima, Japan, on May 28, 2022 (AFP)
    Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu following her release from prison in Akishima, Japan, on May 28, 2022 (AFP)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine congratulated Saturday revolutionary Japanese freedom fighter Fusako Shigenobu over her freedom following two decades of imprisonment.

"The Palestinian people will never forget the sacrifices of this freedom fighter and her comrades in the Japanese Red Army for Palestine and the cause. Their revolutionary and humane principles, as well as their anti-imperialist sentiment, led them to join the ranks of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and fight alongside its freedom fighters," the PFLP said in a statement.

The organization also hailed the Japanese Red Army for the Al-Lydd Airport operation conducted in 1972.

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"Freedom Fighter Shigenobu is worthy of being among the international freedom fighters who worked alongside martyred freedom fighter and author Ghassan Kanafani on Al-Hadaf Magazine, the PFLP's official magazine, in addition to her effort in participating in the making of movies and media-related materials to the PFLP and Palestine and translating the PFLP's statements and documents to Japanese," the statement added.

The Palestinian Resistance faction called on the free people of the world to take the Japanese revolutionary as a role model, as she reflected her ideological and revolutionary alignment on the ground through performing her duties toward Palestine and the PFLP that knew no geographical bound.

The PFLP concluded its statement by shining the light on all the horrific atrocities committed by the United States against the Japanese people, stressing that they should be a reason for the Japanese authorities to change their view on the US and advocate anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism instead of remaining a tool in their hands.

Fusako Shigenobu, 76, the founder of the Communist Japanese Red Army (JRA), was released Saturday after spending over two decades behind bars in Japan over allegations of having a hand in the siege imposed on the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974.

The charges pressed against the pro-Palestinian activist were completely dismissed by Shigenobu. Three Japanese Red Army fighters had reportedly stormed the French Embassy and demanded the release of their comrade, Yatsuka Furuya, who had been arrested by the Parisian authorities earlier that year.

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