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Ceremony to be held to grant Human Rights Award to Shireen Issawi

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...

Shireen Issawi Wins International Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders

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...

Exposing the Right of Return of the Palestinians to a wider public – your support is welcomed

By Doc Jazz – In the online world of music, there are hundreds of music platforms and many of them have ongoing songwriter competitions. I have never entered any of my songs into one, partly because I have too much on my mind to bother, and partly because I have no strong interest in winning any of their prizes. This...

Palestinian activist detained for Facebook posts released on bail

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...