Tag: Free Gaza Movement

  • Nobel peace laureate jailed in Israel for Gaza activism

    Jonathan Lis | Ha’aretz 6 July 2009 A Nobel Peace Prize winner and a former U.S. congresswoman are among eight people to be released today and expelled after having sailed on a protest ship heading to Gaza from Cyprus, the Israeli Interior Ministry says. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976…

  • Al Jazeera interview with Mairead Maguire

    Free Gaza Movement 5 July 2009 The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to their luggage or their clothing.…

  • Interview from a kidnapped passenger, Adie Mormech

    Free Gaza Movement 4 July 2009 Adie Mormech, one of over 21 human rights workers and crew taken prisoner on Tuesday 30th June when their boat was forcibly boarded by the Israeli navy, has spoken by mobile phone from his prison cell at Givon jail, Ramle, near Tel Aviv. Amongst the other prisoners from the…