Tag: Arrests

  • Random arrests and assaults during and after Nakba day in Hebron

    29 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Several teenage boys were arrested after the 15 May Nakba Day demonstration in Hebron. On May 24 the International Solidarity Movement met one 16 year old boy and his father to hear his story. The boy had been on his way home from work at around 6 pm…

  • Three members of ISM arrested during peaceful demonstration in Iraq Burin

    28 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This afternoon three members of the International Solidarity Movement were arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Iraq Burin. The activists from the UK, Denmark and Iceland had joined the villagers in protesting the loss of their land to the illegal Israeli settlement of Bracha, however the demonstration had…

  • 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,…