For the first time since his indictment, the former Palestinian-Israeli MK explains the injustice that motivated his actions In late December, Palestinian-Israeli MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint List  – the Palestinian coalition in the Israeli Knesset – was arrested for allegedly smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian prisoners. Earlier this month as part of a […]

Palestinian student Kifah Quzmar has been imprisoned since 7 March by Israeli occupation forces, subjected to interrogation for over 20 days and on hunger strike against his confinement. Student organizations have initiated an international statement demanding his freedom and that of fellow student prisoners. Organizational endorsements are invited – please add your group’s name!  This […]

Kathrada was also a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and accused Israel of apartheid policies Leading South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who was one of Nelson Mandela’s closest colleagues, died early Tuesday aged 87, Kathrada’s charity foundation said. Kathrada was among those tried and jailed alongside Mandela in the Rivonia trial in 1964, […]

Former Palestinian prisoner, released in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prsoner exchange, Mazen Fuquha, was assassinated with four shots to the head with a silenced gun yesterday evening, 24 March, outside his home in Tal al-Hawa, south of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Fuquha, 38, is from Tubas in the West Bank, and was […]

Rasmea Odeh accepts a plea agreement with no prison time; plea hearing April 25th in Detroit Rasmea Odeh, the 69-year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured and sexually assaulted by the Israeli military in 1969, is bringing to a close her battle to win justice from the U.S. legal system.After living in this […]

A film about Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails

A boy amputee arrested by soldiers in the dead of night in the refugee camp where his grandmother lives. A boy amputee beaten during his interrogation on the back and leg, until his prosthesis is wrenched out of place. A boy amputee in military prison. The interrogators recoiled in horror at the sight of the […]

My name is Farihan Daraghmeh Farah. I am a proud Palestinian woman and a humanitarian. I am also the mother of the youngest Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail. As I write this piece, on International Women’s Day, these are the things that define me. But as any parent—or any person—can imagine, no detail defines […]

Protesters in New York City gathered outside the Best Buy at Union Square on Friday, 3 March to protest the imprisonment of Lena Jarbouni and fellow Palestinian women prisoners and urge Hewlett-Packard (HP) corporations to get out of the business of profiting from occupation, apartheid and colonialism. Photo: Joe Catron Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network […]

In his award-winning documentary Ghost Hunting, director Raed Andoni brings a group of former Palestinian prisoners to an empty warehouse in Ramallah and asks them to rebuild the interrogation centre where they were detained. The film explores the hidden trauma of Palestinians who have passed through the notorious Al Moskobyia detention centre in Jerusalem. Andoni began the […]