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Trial of Bassem Tamimi to resume on 27 June 2011. Non-violent protesters are rising up to challenge the Israeli occupation, from the chambers of Congress to the shores of the Mediterranean. And while other action have received global media coverage, ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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, ...
Read More »UN Special Rapporteur on torture to give expert opinion on the arrest of minors in Israeli military court
10 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The Special Rapporteur’s expert opinion will be filed to the Ofer Military Court by the defense next Monday in a pre-trial hearing in the case of 14 year-old Islam Dar Ayyoub who ...
Read More »Bassem Tamimi: “Our destiny is to resist”
2 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada When I met Bassem Tamimi at his home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh this January, his eyes were bloodshot and sunken, signs of the innumerable sleepless nights he had spent ...
Read More »Military court orders Nabi Saleh protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, remanded until end of legal proceedings
17 April 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi’s political arrest was extended indefinitely by an Israeli military judge today despite problematic evidence. His trial will open on May 8th. The arrest of Bassem Tamimi, a 44 year-old protest ...
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