Tag: Ashraf Abu Rahmah
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Imprisoned Human Rights Defender in Military Court
Tomorrow Abdullah Abu Rahmah will be taken once again in front of a military judge. He is being accused of “Causing damage to a military installation,” referring to Israel’s illegal Annexation barrier built on his village’s land. Abdullah stated, “The occupation has used many methods including killing, injuring, and raiding our homes in order to…
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Than you for the donations to free Ashraf Abu Rahmah!
Ashraf was arrested again on the 27th of October 2017 while giving a group of French solidarity activists a tour of the land that his village of Bil’in won back from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Modi’in Elite through their creative popular protests. He was accused of throwing stones at the occupation forces, an…
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Ashraf Abu Rahmah in the midst of circus military court
by Maria Stephanya 28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The proof is all there: photos, videos, witnesses. All of them showed that Ashraf Abu Rahmah, one of the main activists of popular non violent struggle in the village of Bil’in, Palestine, walked peacefully on the road which goes from Bil’in’s recent liberated…
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Ashraf Abu Rahmah was arrested for being himself
23 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank To some soldiers of the Israeli army, staying alone, being quiet, and carrying a flag is a crime. To them, people who act in that way should be arrested. At least we can come to that conclusion when we think about the arrest of Ashraf Abu…
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IDF commander involved in shooting bound Palestinian evades jail term
27 January 2011 | YNet News Lieutenant-Colonol Omri Borberg breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after evading demotion, but residents of Naalin have no plans to let the sentence slide. Ashraf Abu Rahma, the Palestinian who was shot while bound and blindfolded, was extremely upset upon hearing the judges’ ruling. “The officer committed a crime,…
