19 March 2010 International Solidarity Movement For immediate release: The Israeli Supreme Court handed down its verdict last week regarding the arrest of International Solidarity Movement activists Bridget Chappell and Ariadna Jove Marti from Ramallah on February 7. The decision ...
Read More »Despite increased repression, a victory
For Immediate Release: Legal challenges are an important battle field in non-violent resistance because often the occupation is forced to change their policies when these are held up to scrutiny. Court cases such as the one below as can determine ...
Read More »Israel admits detention of international activists illegal
International Solidarity Movement 8 February 2010 A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement’s Ramallah offices. The two ...
Read More »Deported international activist appeals against her illegal arrest
For immediate release 7 February 2010 The lawyer of Eva Nováková, the former International Solidarity Movement (ISM) media coordinator, who was taken from her apartment in Ramallah on 11 January 2010 and subsequently deported, filed an appeal to the Supreme ...
Read More »Israeli forces arrest two foreigners in West Bank
Reuters 7 February 2010 Palestinian government spokesman Ghassan Khatib said the arrest of Spaniard Ariadna Jove Marti and Australian Bridgette Chappell in the city of Ramallah violated interim peace accords that gave Palestinians self-rule in parts of the West Bank. ...
Read More »Army raids Ramallah to arrest international activists in violation of Oslo Accords
7 February 2010 For Immediate Release: Israeli soldiers raided a Ramallah apartment around 3AM to arrest a Spanish and an Australian activist over expired visas in direct violation of the Oslo Accords. At three in the morning, the Israeli army ...
Read More »Israel crushes local dissent, attacks global criticism
Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service 19 January 2009 Israel is lashing out at international criticism and attempting to crush local dissent in what appears to be growing sensitivity to reproach of its policies. Several recent incidents have dominated media ...
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