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Shireen Issawi protests against the conditions of her imprisonment

Occupied Palestine – An attorney from the Ministry of Prisoners Affairs has stated that she has met with the imprisoned lawyer Shireen Issawi, during her visit to the Hasharon prison. She told her that she has been subjected to daily interrogations in the Moscovia prison for 22 days, in a separate and isolated cell. She also said that the interrogation...

Mother of Shireen Issawi calls out to the world

On April 17th, Palestinian Prisoners Day, the mother of Samer Issawi released a statement, to be shared across the world. Samer Issawi, as most people know, waged a legendary 277-day hunger strike against his incarceration by the Israeli occupation last year. However, after he was released, the Issawi family did not get to enjoy his freedom for long. Samer’s sister...

Mariam Barghouti arrested, trial postponed until Wednesday

Ramallah, Palestine – Mariam Barghouti, a 20-year old student, was arrested on April 11th at the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh. She was accused by two soldiers of the Israeli Barashot unit, that since recently has been deployed around the village, of having thrown stones at the Israeli army. This fabricated accusation was contradicted by many witnesses at the scene....

Musical Intifada upgrades and redesigns website

It wasn’t by choice, which is why it happened unannounced and unexpected, but the Musical Intifada website has suddenly had to upgrade and redesign the site. The web host suddenly announced that they could no longer support websites built in Joomla 1.5, apparently due to some security issues. This meant that the website had to be upgraded to Joomla 2.5,...