Dareen Tatour

Einat Weitzman's 'Prisoners of the Occupation' tells the story of daily life in prison for Palestinians, with the actors reenacting interrogations, hunger strikes, family visits, and solitary confinement cells. (Oren Ziv)

Palestinian political prisoners tell their stories in new Israeli play

Actress Einat Weitzman’s documentary play about Palestinian political prisoners finally hits the stage, more than two years after its cancellation at a prominent theater festival caused an uproar.

By Oren Ziv November 28, 2019

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released from prison on September 20, 2018. She was arrested in October 2015, and later convicted of incitement to terrorism and violence for poems she published on social media. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Top court puts end to Palestinian poet’s four-year legal saga

Dareen Tatour was arrested after the security services decided her poetry constituted ‘incitement.’ After nearly three years under house arrest, a trial, and jail time, she is finally free. Dareen Tatour, the Palestinian poet arrested in 2015 over a poem she published on Facebook, is finally free. After years of house arrest, months in prison, and dogged efforts by the government to secure the maximum…

By Oren Ziv October 3, 2019

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released from prison on September 20, 2018. She was arrested in October 2015, and later convicted of incitement to terrorism and violence for poems she published on social media. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel fights to reinstate Palestinian poet’s conviction

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour sat in prison for a poem she published on Facebook. After an Israeli court ruled that the poem does not constitute incitement to violence, the prosecution is now appealing the partial reversal of her conviction. Israel’s state prosecution is trying to appeal the partial reversal of the conviction of Dareen Tatour, the Palestinian poet found guilty of…

By Oren Ziv July 18, 2019

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Dareen Tatour (right) and attorney Gaby Lasky seen at the Nazareth District Court after the court partially cleared Tatour of incitement to violence in a poem she published on Facebook, May 16, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Court overturns Palestinian’s incitement conviction over poem

Dareen Tatour sat in prison and was put under house arrest for a poem she published on Facebook. Now an Israeli court has decide to partially overturn her conviction. An Israeli court partially overturned the conviction of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour on Thursday, ruling that a poem she wrote, which landed her in prison last…

By Oren Ziv May 16, 2019

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour (right) seen with MK Haneen Zoabi in Nazareth Magistrate's Court after the former is sentenced to five months, including time served, for a poem she wrote on Facebook. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian jailed for poems appeals conviction

Dareen Tatour was convicted of incitement to violence and support for terrorism in her poetry. Rescinding the charges won’t exonerate her completely, but it would allow her to continue writing. By Yoav Haifawi In ordinary trials, after a defendant has finished serving their sentence, one can safely assume that the legal drama is over. There…

By +972 Magazine January 4, 2019

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released from prison on September 20, 2018. She was arrested in October 2015, and later convicted of incitement to terrorism and violence for poems she published on social media. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour set free

Dareen Tatour, who was arrested and jailed for poems she published on social media, is released from prison. Tatour: ‘It will be impossible to stop my writing.’ By Oren Ziv Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released today after serving 42 days in prison. Her five-month sentence was reduced by 97 days, the same amount of…

By Oren Ziv September 20, 2018

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour seen in her home in the village of Reineh, northern Israel. (Oren Ziv)

Is Israel forbidding a poet from receiving family visits in prison?

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is being imprisoned in an all-women security ward in northern Israel. By Yoav Haifawi The Israel Prison Services (IPS) are preventing Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, who was sentenced last month to five months imprisonment for incitement to violence, from receiving family visits, say her family members. Tatour, who was convicted over poems and…

By +972 Magazine August 29, 2018

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour (right) seen with MK Haneen Zoabi in Nazareth Magistrate's Court after the former is sentenced to five months, including time served, for a poem she wrote on Facebook. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian poet sentenced to five months in prison

Dareen Tatour was convicted of incitement to violence and support for terrorism in her poetry. She has spent the last two years under house arrest. By Oren Ziv An Israeli court sentenced Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour to five months in prison Tuesday for incitement to terrorism and violence over poems she published on her personal Facebook…

By Oren Ziv July 31, 2018

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour seen in her home in the village of Reineh, northern Israel. (Oren Ziv)

Meet the poet whose words Israel considers terrorism

After being convicted of incitement to terrorism, and just before she is handed her sentence, Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour opens up in a personal interview about her Kafkaesque trial, the struggle of Palestinian citizens, and why she is a real poet, despite what her critics may claim. By Oren Ziv On Tuesday, July 31, at…

By Oren Ziv July 27, 2018

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour (right) seen with her attorney, Gaby Lasky, at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court on May 3, 2018. Tatour was convicted of incitement and support for terrorism after publishing a number of poems on Facebook in 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian poet convicted of inciting terror in Facebook poem

Dareen Tatour was arrested in 2015 and held in house arrest for nearly three years for publishing a poem on Facebook. On Thursday morning, an Israeli court convicted her of incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization. By +972 Magazine Staff An Israeli court convicted poet Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel,…

By +972 Magazine May 3, 2018

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour seen in the Nazareth court, December 4th, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

A bizarre end to the trial of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour

By the time a verdict is handed down in her case, Dareen Tatour will have lost over two-and-a-half years of her life to prison and house arrest. By Yoav Haifawi Like a cartoon character who runs over a cliff but continues to run in the air, or Achilles who thought he could pass the tortoise easily,…

By +972 Magazine February 22, 2018

Human rights defender and computer networking pioneer Anriette Esterhuysen speaks at 7amleh's Palestine Digital Activism Forum, Ramallah, West Bank, January 18, 2018. (Courtesy of 7amleh)

Social media giants feel the heat at Palestinian digital conference

At the Palestine Digital Activism Forum, representatives from both Google and Facebook faced a crowd that demanded to know why the two companies cooperate with Israel’s attempts at silencing Palestinians. Not long after the Arab Spring began, social media companies rushed to embrace the popular narrative that their platforms had the potential to change societies and reform…

By Joshua Leifer January 18, 2018

Dareen Tatour speaks with her attorney, Gaby Lasky, outside the Haifa courtroom where her trial was taking place. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

+972’s Story of the Year: The trial of Dareen Tatour

The surreal arrest and trial of a Palestinian poet symbolizes a crackdown on free speech, surveillance on social media, and rising authoritarian trends in Israel. +972’s Story of the Year for 2017. By +972 Magazine For the past year and half, a strange and disturbing drama has been playing out in a Haifa courtroom. In…

By +972 Magazine December 31, 2017