Tag: Spain

  • Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s trial to enter sentencing phase on Wednesday

    13 September 2010 | Popular Struggle The trial of Bil’in protest organizer, Abdallah Abu Rahmah will renew this Wednesday, after his conviction of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations was harshly criticized by the EU, the Spanish Parliament and human rights organizations. What: Beginning of sentencing phase in Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s trial Where: Ofer Military Court…

  • Spanish Parliament condemns Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s conviction

    8 September 2010 | Popular Struggle The Spanish Parliament followed the footsteps of the EU and the Desmond Tutu of the Elders, and joined the rising tide of international criticism over Abu Rahmah’s conviction of incitement by an Israeli military court. The Spanish Parliament’s Intergroup for Palestine issued a statement that expressed their “deep concern…

  • Spain excludes settlement university from academic competition

    Global BDS Movement 20 September 2009 The “University Center of Ariel in Samaria” (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and…

  • Defense of universal jurisdiction speech presented to conference in Madrid

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 22 June 2009 Dear friends, comrades, partners in civil society, and national and international human rights organizations, thank you all for coming, and for joining us here today. Today, the Gaza Strip lies in ruins. Five months after Israel’s criminal offensive, which cost the lives of 1,414 Palestinians – 83%…

  • PCHR and Spanish civil society organize conferences in Madrid In defense of universal jurisdiction

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 21 June 2009 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), in cooperation with Spanish civil society partners and national and international human rights organizations, are organizing two events in Madrid, Spain, on 22 and 24 June 2009. The events will take place in the Spanish Cultural Centre and the Spanish…