Mohammed Al Qiq, 34-year-old Palestinian journalist and political prisoner, made headlines last year with a hunger strike against his detention in 2016, which lasted 94 days. After calls from many human rights organisations, Al Qiq eventually made it out of prison alive. Rearrested On January 15th this year, Israeli occupation forces arrested Al Qiq again. They nabbed him while returning...
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....
To enable you to express your support for Samer Issawi and the other Palestinian hunger strikers, we have made a few handy tools available for you. We hope that you are either in the process of organizing such a protest, or that you are at least thinking of doing so! Needless to say, the situation is urgent enough. First...
STATEMENT ISSUED March 10 by PALESTINIANS FOR DIGNITY – President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory comes at a time when our prisoners are waging a hunger strike battle in the face of Israeli government obstinacy, and in the face of US silence towards the slow murder these heroes are being subjected to. Most recently Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died during...
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