Source: Human Rights Defenders – Lawyer Shireen Issawi has been held captive in the prisons of the Israeli occupation since March 6 of this year. She was accused together with five other attorneys of working against the Israeli state with hostile parties. Shireen is well-known for having been the spokeswoman and one of the main protagonists of the campaign calling...
The international Free Shireen Issawi Campaign wishes to inform supporters of Shireen, the lawyer and activist held in solitary confinement in Israel’s military occupation prison system, and all supporters of those who defend the political and human rights of the Palestinian people, that Shireen Issawi is the winner of the international Alkarama award for Human Rights Defenders. Alkarama is a...
Ramallah, Palestine – Occupation authorities have released Palestinian activist Suhaib Zahida after a detention of one week. He was arrested on the unusual and unprecedented charge of writing slogans of incitement against ‘Israel’ on social media and Facebook, and specifically against Ghassan Elian, commander of the Golani Brigade of the Israeli army responsible for the massacre in the Shujaiya neighborhood...
DEN HAAG, Netherlands – Dutch 74-year old pro-Palestine activist Frans Rutgrink had his own unique way of protesting. On every Saturday and Sunday from noon until 2.30 pm he would stand in front of a Dutch supermarket in The Hague holding signs with slogans protesting against the persecution of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government. An example of steadfastness...
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