Category: Press Releases
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Action Alert: Demand the release of Nabi Saleh popular leaders
Trial of Bassem Tamimi to resume on 27 June 2011. Non-violent protesters are rising up to challenge the Israeli occupation, from the chambers of Congress to the shores of the Mediterranean. And while other action have received global media coverage, a small West Bank village named Nabi Saleh has been struggling without the attention it…
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European Union expresses concern over persecution of West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi
16 June 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee EU representative to UN Human Rights Council stated on Tuesday that “The rights of Israeli and Palestinian Human Rights Defenders protesting peacefully […] are severely curtailed”, mentioning Tamimi’s case explicitly. The European Union expressed its concern last Tuesday that Palestinian “human rights defenders continue to be detained…
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A call from Gaza in support of the Freedom Flotilla II
12 June 2011 | Gaza We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, five years after closures began on Gaza , are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the full siege on the Gaza Strip must end. Shortly after 2006 democratic election which were supervised by people and bodies from…
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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…
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CPT: Settlers Injure Palestinian with Stones
2 June 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Teams For Immediate Release In the old city in Hebron, two boys, ages 14 and 15, residents of Beit Hadassah Settlement, threw multiple stones, some as large as 5 inches, at Palestinians walking past in the market place. One nine year old boy was struck with two stones causing…
