Anti-Wall Activists Freed!!!
By Guest Post • Jan 15th, 2010 at 12:52 • Category: Action Alert
After spending months being detained without charge in an Israeli prison, human rights defenders Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma' have been set free.
Their release is a massive victory. Thank you to everyone who took action to help secure their freedom.
Mohammad and Jamal work for Stop the Wall, a War on Want partner organisation which has been leading the fight against the illegal Separation Wall and the Occupation of Palestine. Their detention was part of Israel's ongoing crackdown on anti-Wall activists.
Jamal has asked us to pass along this message of thanks to War on Want supporters:
"Your actions made my imprisonment too uncomfortable for the Israeli authorities. We are deeply thankful for all your efforts. The reasons for our arrests were purely political — an attempt to crush Stop the Wall and the popular committees against the Wall. We have to combine our energies to ensure that the Wall will be torn down and the Occupation ends."
There is still more work to be done. We need to keep up the pressure to make Israel end the Occupation. Please act now to pressure the British government to impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel — www.waronwant.org/stoparmingisrael
Thank you.
Yasmin Khan
Senior Campaigns Officer
PS. We are also grateful to those people who generously donated to our Christmas Palestine appeal supporting Stop the Wall's work. Your contributions have made a real difference.
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Awesome! I´m very happy for both, let´s keep it up for all the others!