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West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to Judge: “Your military laws are non-legit. Our peaceful protest is just”

Posted on: June 6, 2011
West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to Judge: “Your military laws are non-legit. Our peaceful protest is just”

6 June 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Tamimi, who has been held in custody for over two months, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and held a defiant speech explaining his motivation for organizing civil resistance to the Occupation. See his full statement below.

After more than two months in custody, the trial of Bassem Tamimi, a 44 year-old protest organizer from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, finally commenced yesterday. Tamimi, who is the coordinator for the Nabi Saleh popular committee, pleaded not guilty to the charges … Continue reading


Updated on June 10, 2011
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Trial of West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to begin Sunday

Posted on: June 2, 2011

02 June 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Tamimi, who has already been held in custody for over two months, will plead not guilty to the anti-free speech charges against him before a military court.

What: The opening of Bassem Tamimi’s trial

Where: Ofer Military Court *
* Entry to the military court must be coordinated with the Israeli army’s spokesperson in advance.

When: Sunday, June 4th, 2011, at 9:30 AM

Media contact: Jonathan Pollak +972-54-632-7736

After more than two months in custody, the trial of Bassem Tamimi, a 44 year-old protest organizer from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, will finally begin Sunday. Tamimi, … Continue reading


Updated on June 2, 2011
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Bil’in organizer sentenced to 18 months

Posted on: October 21, 2010
Adeeb Abu Rahmah sentenced to 18 months

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
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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
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Spanish Parliament condemns Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s conviction

Posted on: September 8, 2010
Photo: Oren Ziv / Active Stills

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
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Abdallah Abu Rahmah: Know the facts and act now for the freedom of a nonviolent freedom fighter

Posted on: August 27, 2010
Abdallah Abu Rahmah

27 August 2010

The West Bank village of Bil’in has become a symbol of the wider popular resistance movement in Palestine. Abdallah Abu Rahmah, head of Bi’in’s Popular Committee, is one of many key organizers of peaceful resistance that Israel has used legal means to persecute. He was convicted on Tuesday of two out of four charges in an Israeli military court and faces up to ten years in jail. The facts of his case – … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Criminalizing peaceful protest: Act up for Abdallah Abu Rahmah

Posted on: August 25, 2010
Picture credit: Oren Ziv/ActiveStills

25 August 2010 | Popular Struggle

UPDATE: Baroness Ashton condemns Bil’in leader’s conviction; Attorney: “International community must take a tough stand on human rights defenders.”

Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was yesterday convicted of incitement and organizing illegal marches by an Israeli military court. The conviction concluded an eight months long political show trial, during which he was kept behind bars. Help us work for his release

Persecuted for his key role in organizing the successful grassroots campaign against the wall and Jewish-only … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Early release of Tom Hurndall’s killer symptom of wider Israeli crimes

Posted on: July 20, 2010
Tom shortly before he was shot

20 July 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Correction appended

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) condemns the early release from prison of the Israeli soldier that murdered photography student and ISM volunteer Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003. The Israeli press yesterday reported that Taysir Hayb will be released three years early from an already short eight-year sentence.

His murder was only a symptom of a much wider culture of impunity in the Israeli army. This early release serves to … Continue reading


Updated on July 21, 2010
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Popular struggle organizer Wa’el Al-Faqeeh sentenced to one year

Posted on: July 18, 2010

18 July 2010

International Solidarity Movement

Palestinian human rights activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been sentenced to one year in Israeli military prison, on the charge of aiding an illegal organization. Al-Faqeeh was arrested by the Israeli military on 9 December 2009, thus due to be released in December of this year.

The sentence was handed down in Salem military prrison, in which Al-Faqeeh was found guilty by a military judge of aiding an illegal organization. The charge has served as a useful and thinly veiled pretext in the arrest of hundreds of Palestinian activists. Al-Faqeeh was also ordered to pay a fine of … Continue reading


Updated on July 18, 2010
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Grassroots activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh faces military court, still without charge

Posted on: March 16, 2010

16 March 2010

Palestinian activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh faced his third hearing in Salim military court on 11 March. His detention period was extended until 24 April when the next hearing will take place. Al-Faqeeh remains imprisoned without charge since his arrest from his Nablus home on 9 December 2009. It is expected that Al-Faqeeh will be charged with aiding an illegal organization, a common pretext employed by the Israeli military to imprison politically active Palestinians, and faces a minimum of 12 months behind bars.

Al-Faqeeh, imprisoned for over three months now, sent a message to his loved ones from Jelemeh prison as … Continue reading


Updated on March 16, 2010
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