cartoon of the day
By Ben Heine • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day, Palestineby BEN HEINE
Posts Tagged ‘Mohammed Omer’
MOHAMMED OMER; ONE YEAR AND COUNTING
By Steve Amsel • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, ZionismWRITTEN BY MOHAMMED OMER AND STEVE AMSEL
A Journalist Beaten — One Year Later
by Mohammed Omer
Released: 26 Jun 2009
June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European [...]
thinking quote
By Mary Rizzo • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingUnlike the United States or most Western nations, neither Israel nor Palestine has a constitution (although both operate under respective basic laws). As a result, the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of the press are arbitrarily bestowed rather than guaranteed by law. The closest such guarantee is found in [...]
Khalid Amayreh – Full account of Muhammed Omer’s hair-raising encounter with the Shin Bet
By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Biography, Features, Interviews, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of ResistanceFrom his hospital bed at the European Hospital in Gaza and with barely audible voice, award-winning Palestinian journalist Muhammed Omer has given a full account of the hair-raising encounter he had last week with Shin Bet agents at the Allenby Bridge border-crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.
Omer, a co-winner of the 2008 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalistic Excellence, said [...]
The BBC ignores the beating of Palestinian journalist they interviewed only days before
By Mary Rizzo • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, PalestineLETTERS TO THE BBC BY DAVID HALPIN
To BBC News online
Dear Olivia,
My first message to you was on 06/28/2008 at 08:33 PM.
I see no report of the assault on this journalist on the BBC web site. Assuming you are on holiday, I am copying this to senior colleagues. To this lay person, there would appear to [...]
cartoon of the day
By Ben Heine • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the dayMohammed Omer as seen by Ben Heine
UPDATE: Palestinian Journalist beaten to unconsciousness
By Mary Rizzo • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, PalestineWITH UPDATE BELOW! WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL My dear friend and brother Mohammed Omer returned to his native Gaza Strip on Thursday… literally unconscious and unable to speak after being beaten and tortured by Israeli troops. He is still unable to speak so I was not able to communicate with him, I [...]
