Activities & Support
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Collecting donations for Canteen accounts of the popular struggle prisoners
25/08/2010
As we all know, in addition to the hard running violence in demonstrations against the occupation, one of the key tools of repression against the popular movement is the mass arrests - along with bogus trials that lead to long periods of confinement in prisons in the West Bank and Israel.
Nearly a 100 of Bil’in residents were jailed for various periods of time since 2005. In Ni’lin alone, more than 120 people were detained since the beginning of the struggle in May 2008. During the months in which the people of An Nabi-Salih, Karawat Bnei-Zeid, Beit Rima and Kufer Ein dared to protest more than 40 of them were arrested.
Act Up for Abdallah Abu Rahmah
24/08/2010
24/08/2010 — Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal marches by an Israeli military court. The conviction concluded an eight months long political show trial, during which he was kept behind bars. Help us work for his release.
We are now waiting for Abdallah’s sentence, but he is facing years in jail. Now is the last moment act up on his case, and it is still not too late.
Please use the below template letters we have prepared to ask your Minister of Foreign Affairs to send an official inquiry to the Israeli government about Abdallah. Demand that your country apply pressure on Israeli officials to release Abdallah Abu Rahmah and stop targeting popular struggle.
USA | UK | France | Germany | Italy | Portugal | Spain | Sweden | The Czech Republic | The Netherlands | Canada, write to Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs : Cannon.L@parl.gc.ca
Criminalizing Peaceful Protest: Act Up for Abdallah Abu Rahmah
24/08/2010
Earlier today, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal marches by an Israeli military court. The conviction concluded an eight months long political show trial, during which he was kept behind bars. Help us work for his release.
Persecuted for his key role in organizing the successful grassroots campaign against the wall and Jewish-only settlement on Bil’in’s land, Abdallah was convicted based only on the forced testimonies of minors who were arrested from their beds at the middle of the night. not a single material evidence was presented during the entire trial.
Ahmad Burnat Needs Your Support to Get Out of Prison
26/07/2010
At 1:30 in the morning on July 19th armed Israeli soldiers drove into Bil’in under the cover of the pitch black night, and raided the house of well known activist Wajeeh Burnat, one of the main characters in the film Bil’in Habibti. This time, the raid was conducted to take Ahmad, his 17 year-old son.
It is not often that we ask for such help, but we turn to you today asking for a donation, large or small, to help in securing his release.
Israeli courts criminalize protest: Adeeb Abu Rahma sentenced to two years
04/07/2010
Israeli repression of Palestinian non-violent resistance against the Wall and the Occupation takes a distubring turn: Adeeb Abu Rahma, from Bil’in Village, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
On 30 June 2010, grassroots activist Adeeb Abu Rahma, member of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, was sentenced by Israeli military court to two years’ imprisonment, after being arrested on 10 July 2009 during a weekly demonstration in Bil’in, and after spending 11 months of detention in the Ofer military complex in the Occupied Territories.
