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Monday, January 4, 2010

Anti-wall activists rally outside prison

Ma'an
Anti-wall activists demonstrated outside Israel’s Ofer Prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday to demand the release of detained activist Jamal Juma to concide with the convening of his military court hearing.

Jamal Juma, 47, the coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall campaign was detained on 16 December 2009 without being charged...

.........Juma, a high profile human rights defender and activist, was detained in the recent wave of Israeli arrests against Palestinian and pro-Palestinian activists across the West Bank..... Juma’s “arrest is part of an Israeli campaign to break the growing civil resistance movement.”

In addition to Juma, other prominent civil society activists including Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmeh and boycott advocate Mohammed Othman have been detained by Israel. Full story
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