Tag: Prisoner Rights
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Beit Ummar collectively punished for peaceful demonstration
15 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank October 14th was the seventeenth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. People took to the streets for a solidarity demonstration in the village of Beit Ummar, Hebron. This is the second such demonstration in this village, a similar march last week…
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A letter from Nariman Tamimi to the world
7 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On 27 September 2011 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons announced the start of a campaign of disobedience to protest an escalating series of punitive measures taken against them by the Israeli Prison Service. Today marks the 8th day of their hunger strike. A call for…