Tag: Free Gaza Movement
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Cynthia McKinney remains imprisoned in Israel after Gaza-bound boat is seized
Fox News 2 July 2009 Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating. In a press release from the Green Party, McKinney said the form states that the Spirit…
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks from Israeli jail cell after arrest on boat delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza
Democracy Now 2 July 2009 Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military boarded their ship in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.…
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Detained peace activist: we slept with cockroaches
Daniel Edleson | YNet News 2 July 2009 An Israeli citizen who was among 21 peace activists apprehended by the IDF en route to the Gaza Strip says she was held under conditions resembling a “horror movie.” Houida Araf, who was released on Wednesday, told Ynet that she and a fellow Israeli peace activist were…
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Free Gaza Movement’s two Palestinian ’48 organisers now released from Israeli prison and detention
2 July 2009 For Immediate Release: Lubna Masarwa and Huwaida Arraf, both organisers of the Free Gaza Movement, have now been released from Ashdod Detention Facility, where military authorities had held them from 9.00 p.m. on 30th June until 1.00 p.m. on 1st July, 2009, having arrested and detained them while in Gazan territorial waters…
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Israel to deport peace activists sailing to Gaza
Efrat Weiss | YNet News 1 July 2009 Israel is planning to deport within the next few days the 21 peace activists who arrived on a boat from Cyprus with the intention of entering the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Navy unit boarded their boat and escorted it to Ashdod port. Immigration police will transport the…