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Sur les 161 témoignages sous serment recueillis par l’organisation auprès des mineurs palestiniens détenus, 25 ont affirmé avoir été maintenus à l’isolement 16 jours en moyenne, la plus longue période étant de 29 jours. Ils se sont vus également refuser l’assistance d’un avocat et la visite de membres de leur famille avant l’interrogatoire. DCIP a…
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La dernière fois, c’était lors d’un sit-in organisé par des militants, devant l’église de la Nativité de Bethléem, en solidarité avec les prisonniers palestiniens en grève de la faim dans les prisons israéliennes. Le premier ministre de l’AP, Rami Hamdallah, a participé à l’événement. Selon l’agence de presse Ma’an qui tenait cela d’un défenseur des…
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Within Israel’s imperialist-supported colonial expansion, the issue of Bedouin in the Naqab remains largely on the periphery, despite its centrality to the wider context of ramifications pertaining to the colonising of land and the Palestinian indigenous population. The lack of visibility is evident in the historical portrayal of hostile narratives – a trend recurring in…
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“In this type of investigation, objectivity is non-existent.” Alejandro Solís Muñoz’s statement in his prologue to “Ingrid Olderock: la mujer de los perros” necessitates reflection. Objectivity, in the wrong hands, is a weapon of normalising violence and human rights violations. The end result would be normalising the dictatorship and its atrocities. It would also be…
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Merging historical timelines offers an interesting perspective into imperialism and its snares: April 17, 1961 saw the Bay of Pigs invasion — one of the counter-revolutionary activities against Cuba that was planned during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency and carried out during John F. Kennedy’s years in the White House. The attempt failed, with Cuba’s mobilized…
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The initial idea for a series of paintings related to Palestine occurred after finishing “The narration of burnt olive trees”, which is the first in the series themed “Impressions of Palestinian memory in watercolor.” However, it is the last painting which I believe defines this collection, or contribution, as a writer and artist, to Palestinian…
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Chile’s struggle for memory against a dictatorship-imposed oblivion has braced itself for another sliver of discovery. On July 28, water works-related excavations in Las Brisas led to the discovery of human bone fragments. Buried just 10 kilometers south of the town of Santo Domingo, the location corresponds to the vicinities of the first dictatorship era torture…
RAMONA WADI 