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J14 protester arrested, June 23 2012. At least 89 people were detained or arrested in Tel Aviv (photo: Activestills.org)
WATCH: Get arrested at a protest? There’s an app for that
Being a human rights activist can put you in risky situations, including the very real possibility of arrest. Amnesty International this summer released a new Android app to facilitate discreet, emergency assistance from your chosen contacts in the event of arrest. Social TV speaks with Amnesty’s Israel director about its ‘local’ uses. Related: Rights of…
By Social TV September 17, 2014
Palestinians pray outside Al-Aqsa Mosque after Israeli police limited access to the mosque for young worshipers to prevent possible clashes, Ras al-Amud, East Jerusalem, March 14, 2014. (photo: Activestills.org)
Photos of the week: Prayer, protests, and arrests in the streets
This week: Behind the wall in East Jerusalem, praying in the street outside Al-Aqsa, rude gestures from an Egged bus, fighters’ remains return to Nablus, unions on the march in South Africa, African immigrants seek visas in Israel, youth arrested at Damascus Gate, remembering Rachel Corrie, and a Gaza doctor denied entry      …
By Activestills March 20, 2014
Mohammad Al-Azza rests in the hospital the morning after being shot in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet by Israeli forces in Aida Refguee Camp. Beit Jala, West Bank, April 9, 2013. Al-Azza underwent two surgeries to remove the bullet, which lodged in his cheek below his right eye and fractured his skull. He is expected to make a full recovery. (Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
Details emerge of Palestinian photographer’s brutal arrest
Palestinian photographer Mohammad Al-Azza was arrested earlier this week. He had spent months evading the same Israeli forces that had shot him in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet last April while he was covering an incursion into Aida Refugee Camp, where he lives. Journalist Amahl Bishara provides this detailed account of the ordeal Al-Azza and his family faced…
By Activestills July 10, 2013
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Report: Israeli soldier tweets from detained protester’s phone
In what appears to be an escalation in the Israeli army’s attempts to intimidate unarmed protesters from joining protests in Nabi Saleh, soldiers apprehended a Palestinian-American college student this morning at the entrance to Nabi Saleh as the weekly demonstration against the occupation was starting. The demonstrator, who wishes to remain anonymous, told +972 that he was…
By Joseph Dana July 29, 2011
Gideon Spiro and daughter, Jerusalem, April 2010 (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)
Journalist and activist Gideon Spiro arrested for “incitement”
Gideon Spiro, 76, was arrested and released on Monday for what the police considered, apparently groundlessly, to be incitement. A Tel Aviv Police investigator arrested Monday Gideon Spiro, a veteran leftist activist aged 76, for suspected incitement relating to an article he had written. Spiro was discharged two hours later, after his attorneys – from…
By Yossi Gurvitz June 6, 2011
Web rallies to the aid of kidnapped “A gay girl in Damascus” blogger
Prominent American-Syrian political blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf abducted by armed young men in Damascus * Whereabouts remain unknown * Letter-writing campaign begins, targeting senators, the White House and Syrian embassies * Updates below The Syrian-American author of one of the most important political blogs in Syria appears to have been apprehended by one of the…
By Dimi Reider June 6, 2011
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