Tag: Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

  • Military judge orders to keep Bil’in organizer jailed

    22 November 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Abdallah Abu Rahmah Abdallah Abu Rahmah was scheduled to be released from prison last Thursday, after having served the one-year prison term he was sentenced to. He remains in jail after the Military Court of Appeals ordered today to keep him behind bars regardless, pending a decision…

  • Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced to a year in prison

    11 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall. Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, plus 6 months suspended sentence for 3 years and a fine of…

  • Path of the Wall in Bil’in to Be Moved

    Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee 11 February 2010 Two and a half years after an Israeli Supreme Court decision deeming the path of the Wall on the lands of Bil’in illegal, preliminary infrastructure work to reroute the barrier in accordance with the ruling has finally began. Since the ruling, the state has twice been found in…

  • Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On the night of International Human Right Day, Thursday December 10th, at 2am, Abdallah Abu Rahmah was arrested from his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Seven military jeeps surrounded his house, and Israeli soldiers broke the door, extracted Abdallah from his bed, and, after briefly allowing him to…

  • A message of non-violent resistance from within Israeli prison

    Majida Abu Rahmah | The Huffington Post 9 January 2010 On Tuesday, January 5, I attended the trial of my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah in an Israeli military detention camp. Ofer Military Base is a dark and dehumanizing place, but I was happy to go there because it meant that I would finally see my…