Tag: Prisoner

  • Haaretz: Eight Palestinian youths and the crime they didn’t commit

    Amira Hass, Haaretz After two years, a case against Palestinian teenagers accused of throwing stones was overturned when the military prosecution backed out. The suspects pleaded innocent all along, saying they’d been in school Eight Palestinian teenagers were tried in the court of military judge Lt. Col. Menashe Vahnish on November 11, 2008. Referring to…

  • Ahmad Burnat needs your support to get out of prison

    27 July 2010 | Popular Struggle Dear friend, At 1:30 in the morning on July 19th armed Israeli soldiers drove into our village, Bil’in, under the cover of the pitch black night, and raided the house of my friend and well known activist Wajeeh Burnat, who was featured in the documentary Bil’in Habibti. This time,…

  • Popular struggle organizer Wa’el Al-Faqeeh sentenced to one year

    18 July 2010 International Solidarity Movement Palestinian human rights activist Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been sentenced to one year in Israeli military prison, on the charge of aiding an illegal organization. Al-Faqeeh was arrested by the Israeli military on 9 December 2009, thus due to be released in December of this year. The sentence was handed…