Tag: Arrests

  • Israel releases Palestinian boycott activists

    Benjamin Joffe-Walt | The Media Line 14 January 2010 A prominent West Bank activist said by Palestinian groups to be the first Palestinian imprisoned for promoting an international boycott of Israel has been released after being detained by Israel for over 100 days without charge. Mohammad Othman, a 34 year old resident of the West…

  • Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On the night of International Human Right Day, Thursday December 10th, at 2am, Abdallah Abu Rahmah was arrested from his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Seven military jeeps surrounded his house, and Israeli soldiers broke the door, extracted Abdallah from his bed, and, after briefly allowing him to…

  • Grassroots activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh to stand trial January 19

    13 January 2010 Political prisoner Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities for over a month, and is now facing trial in Salim military court on the 19th of January. The abduction of Al-Faqeeh from his home, along with 4 other activists in the Nablus region, marked the beginning of the recent…

  • Activist from Bil’in village arrested in night raid

    Friends of Freedom and Justice 12 January 2010 For immediate release: At 3:20am three Israeli army jeeps and many soldiers invaded Bil’in to arrest 21-year-old Yaseen Mohammad Yaseen. In the last six months the military has come to his home numerous times attempting to take him into custody. He is one of many activists arrested…

  • Czech pro-Palestinian activist returns home after expelled by Israel

    Ha’aretz 12 January 2010 A Czech pro-Palestinian activist returned to Prague on Tuesday after she was expelled from Israel, officials said. Israel Defense Forces soldiers and immigration police detained Eva Novakova, 28, in a raid on her home in Ramallah in the West Bank on early Monday, said the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group…