Credit: Maureen Clare Murphy More than 70 journalists, activists, and members of the diplomatic corps met on September 6th at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem for a press conference regarding the Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the occupied ...
Read More »Maria Nikiforou Was Illegaly Deported
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 24th July 2006, Maria Nikiforou was forcibly sent back to Greece from Tel Aviv airport, despite the decision of the appeal court. The judge had intialy issued a stay on her deportation order. After reviewing secret ...
Read More »Maria Nikiforou Deported
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This morning, July 24th, Maria Nikiforou was deported from Israel. She was sent on the 7am flight to Athens without a hearing. For more information about Maria’s case see previous reports: Israel Declares Greek Human Rights Worker ...
Read More »Israel Declares Greek Human Rights Worker a Security Threat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, July 22nd, an Israeli judge decided today in administrative court to deport Maria Nikiforou, a 34 year old human rights worker, without a hearing. The security has informed Maria that they will put her on the ...
Read More »Greek Activist Celebrates Birthday in Detention
Maria Nikiforou with a child from Bil’in in 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, July 18, 2006, Maria Nikiforou will celebrate her thirty-fourth birthday in isolation in the Ben Gurion detention center. Israeli security put Maria in isolated detention on July ...
Read More »Greek Human Rights Worker Remains in Detention
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Maria Nikiforou, a Greek human rights worker was detained while attempting to enter Israel on the morning of July 14th, and has been kept in isolation since that evening. The police have told Maria that she has ...
Read More »Israel Refuses Greek Human Rights Worker Entry
UPDATE: Since the afternoon on July 14th, Maria Nikiforou has been held in isolation at the airport security dentention center. Despite the fact that detainees are allowed to keep their phones in this facility, she is not allowed to charge ...
Read More »Israel Must Welcome Non-violent Resistance
by Paul Larudee The accusers who denied me entry to Israel on the basis of secret evidence and who continue to persecute the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinian non-violent resistance may think of the us as troublemakers. We are. They ...
Read More »Denied Entry
by Noura Khouri Typically, entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) through the only possible route available, via Israel, is a nerve- racking, tiresome and extremely invasive affair. If the foreigner in question answers honestly, to the barrage of questions ...
Read More »Inside Bay Area: “Paul Larudee My Word Israel needs to promote harmony in pianos, politics”
From Inside Bay Area FOR MORE than 40 years I have visited the region of the Middle East known as Palestine, part of which became Israel in 1948, with the remainder under Israeli military occupation since 1967. I confess I ...
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