More than three weeks ago, Palestinian activist Mohammad Othman was arrested, when he reentered the West Bank after a visit to Norway. Mohammad, who is active in the nonviolent movement against the Apartheid Wall and in the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign (BDS), is still in detention, in solitary confinement. He still doesn't know why he has been arrested!On Monday, 19 October he appeared before a military tribunal without even being informed of the charges against him. The judge extended his detention for another 11 days. Since then he has appeared before the tribunal again, and once again the detention has been extended though no charges have been brought.
In solidarity with the international appeal "If you want to stop the BDS movement, you'll have to arrest us all!" launched by Stop the Wall following Mohammed's arrest, we are sending an avalanche of mails demanding his immediate and unconditional release !
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Mohammed comes from the villager of Jayyus in the West Bank. Jayyus has been devastated by the building of the Apartheid Wall and by the Zufim settlement, and it is one of the principle villages involved in the nonviolent popular movement against the wall, started four years ago in the village of Bi'lin. He's not the only activist from the popular nonviolent movement to be detained. Dozens of Palestinians from Bi'lin, Ni'lin are Jayyus are being held in Israeli prisons, many taken from their beds during night raids by Israeli soldiers, their faces covered by masks.
The response of the Israeli armed forces to the weekly protests in the villages has been brutal repression: unarmed civilians have to confront soldiers armed with firearms and with new experimental weapons.
In his Cairo speech, President Obama told the Palestinians to renounce violence. Unfortunately, he didn't direct the same words to the Israeli government and nor did he recognise the nonviolent struggle in the Palestinian villages.
In the last four years, 16 people have been killed and more than 1500 wounded, some seriously.
Let's give a future to the Palestinian popular resistance and to the nonviolent option for ending the occupation!
For more information about Israeli repression of the popular nonviolent movement, read the report Repression Allowed. Resistance Denied.
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