Tag: Marwan Barghouti
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Palestinians hold protest on International Palestinian Prisoners day
17/04/2018 International Solidarity Movement Al Khalil | Hebron Today’s demonstration was held by the Palestinian prisoners club, political factions and Palestinian civil society also in attendance were Palestinian prisoner family members and internationals. Palestinians marched from the stadium in Al Khalil, Hebron to Ibn Rushd square. The aim of the protest was to support and…
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NYT: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
Originally published in the New York Times. By Marwan Barghouti Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but…
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Dozens teargased in the village of Bil’in west of Ramallah
by Sameer Bornat 9 December 2011 | Friends of Freedom and Justice-Bilin Dozens were wounded by poison gas suffocation in the weekly march organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in, with the participation of a delegation from Belgium, dozens of Palestinians, and international and Israeli peace activists. The march began…