Category: Press Releases
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Israeli Soldier indicted for beating Palestinian grassroots leader Mohammed Khatib in Bil’in
Yesh Din 19 October 2009 On October 15, an indictment was filed against an Israeli soldier accused of beating up well-known nonviolent protester and secretary of Bil’in’s Regional Council Mohammed Khatib one month ago (September 15) during a night raid on the village. The organization Yesh Din filed a complaint and demanded that an investigation…
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New York protest against detention without trial of Palestinian BDS activist
Adalah NY 17 October 2009 On Saturday forty New York human rights advocates rallied on a cold fall day at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist Mohammad Othman. Othman, held without charges and in solitary confinement since September 22nd, is from…
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Tree-planting action to re-claim Iraq Burin’s land, Sunday 18 October
17 October 2009 For immediate release: Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered in to an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its rightful owners. It comes on the heels of four fiery weekly demonstrations, where local protesters…