Tag: Arrests
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How Israel targets and suppresses opposition to Its Annexation Wall
Stephen Lendman | The People’s Voice 23 September 2009 Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, and unjust, unequal treatment in Israel’s criminal justice system that handles Jews one way and Palestinians…
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Free Mohammad Othman now!
Stop the Wall 24 September 2009 On September 22, Mohammad Othman was arrested by soldiers on the Allenby Bridge Crossing, the border from Jordan to Palestine. He is now being held in Huwara prison as a prisoner of conscience, arrested solely for his human rights work. Mohammad, 33 years old, has dedicated the last ten…
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Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration
UPDATE: Haitham was released with a condition to not be near the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli solidarity activists were given a condition to not be in the village of Bil’in. For Immediate Release 25 September 2009: Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration. Around 1pm, Israeli forces arrested 2 Israeli solidarity activists and a…
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Three arrested in Ni’lin while filming demonstration
25th September 2009 In this week’s Friday demonstration, three persons – Swedish, French and Israeli – were taken away by the Israeli armed forces while filming the protest against the Wall. They were taken to the police station in the illegal settlement of Geva Binyamin and released later that night with the condition not to…
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Israeli forces continue arrest and intimidation campaign with Bil’in night raids
21 September 2009 Israeli forces invaded Bil’in once again just before 1am. Six jeeps entered the village via the gate in the occupation wall. Two jeeps stopped at the house of Mohammed Ahmed Yasseen (age 21) and searched for him in the ground floor apartment belonging to his mother. Four jeeps stopped at Abdullah Mahmoud…