Tag: political prisoners
-
The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode seven: Mothers fighting for Justice in Sheikh Jarrah
In this episode, we share an interview with Um Ramadan. We met her at a demonstration outside the district court in Jerusalem in December 2022. Alongside other mothers, she is protesting her son’s imprisonment. In this moving interview, she talks about the conditions her son is kept in and how mother’s are organising to support…
-
The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode six: Prisoner Solidarity in Palestine
This episode has been released for Palestinian Prisoner’s Day. All around the world people are highlighting the conditions of people incarcerated by the Israeli occupation. To mark this day we bring you an interview with Milena Ansari, an incredible organiser from Addameer. Adameer in arabic means conscience. Adameer is a prisoner support and human rights…
-
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…
-
Political Prisoners absent during Palestinian Mother’s Day
23rd March 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Kafr ad-Dik, Occupied Palestine On 21st of March, Palestine celebrated their Mother’s Day. A group of Palestinian and international activists visited the village of Kafr ad Dik in the Salfit municipality. The activists delivered roses to the mothers and relatives of political prisoners and sat…
-
Hamze Marwan Abdomousa is asking for your support!
30th November 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Ramallah, occupied Palestine UPDATED: 28.12.2015 22 year old Hamze is still in prison after obtaining a 1 year sentence. The court also ruled he must pay a fine of 4.000 shekels (or USD $1.023) before the end of December, in order to be freed by…
