Abdallah Abu Rahmah

Eid without a father and husband

Posted on: November 17, 2010

Abdallah's wife Majida and daughters Louma (8) and Layam (8) during preparations for Eid.

16 November 2010 | Evie Soli, International Solidarity Movement

An interview with the wives of Abdallah and Adeeb Abu Rahma

Al Eid is a holy time of the year for Muslims. Families gather and visit each other over the four holidays, which are for most a time for families to be together. When one member of the family is missing, it makes it hard to enjoy Al Eid in the same way. Thousands of families of Palestinian political prisoners are suffering because a family member is in prison. For Majida, wife of Abdallah Abu Rahma who has now been held for one … Continue reading

Updated on November 17, 2010
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Adeeb Abu Rahma, Bil'in, Eid al-Adha

Civil resistance to bring down the Walls

Posted on: November 1, 2010

1 November 2010 | Ayed Morrar, Huffington Post

Budrus, a documentary film now debuting across the US, tells the story of a successful protest campaign by unarmed Palestinian civilians against Israel’s military occupation in my small West Bank village. Our struggle’s success and the consequent expansion of civil resistance to other West Bank communities may provide hope to viewers desperate for positive news from the Middle East, but today an Israeli crackdown on unarmed Palestinian protesters is threatening this growing movement. For our movement to thrive and serve as a true alternative to violence, we need Americans’ to demand that … Continue reading

Updated on November 1, 2010
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Arrests, Bil'in, Budrus, Demonstration, Ni'lin, Wall

Bil’in organizer sentenced to 18 months

Posted on: October 21, 2010

21 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil’in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Military Court of Appeals, for his involvement in organizing demonstrations. The decision dramatically aggravates the one-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance.

Judge Lieutenant Colonel Benisho of the Military Court of Appeals accepted the Military prosecution’s appeal in Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s case today, which demanded to harshen the already heavy-handed one-year sentence imposed on him by the … Continue reading

Updated on October 24, 2010
Posted under: Features, Press Releases
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Demonstration, Military court

Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced to a year in prison

Posted on: October 11, 2010

11 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall.

Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, plus 6 months suspended sentence for 3 years and a fine of 5,000 NIS. In the sentencing, the judge cited the non-implementation of an Israeli High Court ruling which declared the current route of the wall on Bil’in’s land illegal as a mitigating factor.

The military prosecution is likely to appeal this sentencing – as they did in the … Continue reading

Updated on October 23, 2010
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, Prisoner

Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah

Posted on: October 5, 2010

Jewish Voice for Peace

4 October 2010

Seized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting your democratic rights.

Most of us who believe in human rights and democracy can never imagine being treated in such a way. Yet that is exactly what befell Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a democracy … Continue reading

Updated on October 21, 2010
Posted under: Press Releases
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Action Alert, Bil'in, Demonstration, Global Actions, Wall

Military Prosecution Demands More Than Two Years Imprisonment for Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah

Posted on: September 16, 2010

Abdallah Abu Rhamah at court yesterday. Picture credit: Oren Ziv/Active Stills*

16 September 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Military prosecutor said harsh sentence should serve as a deterrent to other protesters. Despite military orders to the contrary, army officer said 0.22″ caliber bullets are considered crowd control measures.

Updated on September 18, 2010
Posted under: Press Releases, Reports
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Military court, Prisoner

Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s trial to enter sentencing phase on Wednesday

Posted on: September 14, 2010

13 September 2010 | Popular Struggle

The trial of Bil’in protest organizer, Abdallah Abu Rahmah will renew this Wednesday, after his conviction of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations was harshly criticized by the EU, the Spanish Parliament and human rights organizations.

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 What: Beginning of sentencing phase in … Continue reading

Updated on November 23, 2010
Posted under: Press Releases
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Amnesty International, Bil'in, Demonstration, Human Rights Watch, Prisoner, Spain

Spanish Parliament condemns Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s conviction

Posted on: September 8, 2010

8 September 2010 | Popular Struggle

The Spanish Parliament followed the footsteps of the EU and the Desmond Tutu of the Elders, and joined the rising tide of international criticism over Abu Rahmah’s conviction of incitement by an Israeli military court.

The Spanish Parliament’s Intergroup for Palestine issued a statement that expressed their “deep concern that Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s potential incarceration aims at preventing him and other Palestinians from exercising their legitimate right to protest against the existence of the Wall in a non violent manner.” (full text of the statement is available below or here … Continue reading

Updated on November 23, 2010
Posted under: Press Releases
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Demonstration, Military court, Prisoner, Spain

Why Israel imprisoned my best friend

Posted on: September 2, 2010

Abdallah Abu Rahmah being arrested by Israeli soldiers at demonstration in Bilin in 2005. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)

2 September 2010 | Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada

When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more over the years. We Palestinians were banned from traveling to Israel, the land where many of our parents were born. And now I find I cannot leave the West Bank. I was stopped from leaving the country on 4 August when I tried to cross … Continue reading

Updated on November 23, 2010
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Demonstration, Electronic Intifada, Mohammed Khatib, Prisoner