Tag: An Nabi Saleh

  • 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…

  • 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 West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to begin Sunday

    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…

  • Meeting senseless aggression face-to-face

    25 May 2011 | Gershon Baskin, The Jerusalem Post A recent trip to the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh shed a new light on the IDF and its operations. For months I have been hearing about disproportionate use of force by the army against weekly demonstrations in Nabi Saleh – a small pastoral Palestinian village…

  • Free Bassem and Naji Tamimi

    18 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Recent events have once more proven the potency of civil resistance, and its ability to bring about change and end injustice. From the Arab Spring to the recent demonstrations commemorating the Nakba, ordinary people are affecting change. While Abdallah Abu Rahmah is finally out of Israeli prisons,…