A great event...

I want to tell you about a great event we organized for the international women's day...

We organized a lecture about the situation of Palestinian political women prisoners (there are as 120 such prisoners, out of almost 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners and POW's...

We organized it together with a youth association called Baladna, the room was full of young people - there wasn't place for all the people that attended the event...

There were 5 speakers -

2 former political prisoners (both released at January this year) - Areej Shahbari from Nazareth that spent 5 years in prison and Tali Fahima from Kiriat Gat that spend 2 and half years in prison.

A lawyer Taghreed Jahshan that is working in the organization WOFPP

and parrents of 2 women still incarcarated - Taghreed Sa'adi from Sakhneen (sentenced to 6 years and allready in prison for 5 years) and Su'ad Abu Hamad (sentenced to 5 years and should be released in some months).

A mother of a young man that was arrested before 5 and half years, when he was 15 years old, for "trying to build an destructive device" and was sentenced to 10 years, asked to speak too, and she told some mooving detailes about the hardship they are facing, especially since the authorities outlawed the main prisoner-support association that was active inside the 1948 occupied territories of Palestine at September last year.

In the photos:

1) Some of the speakers in the event

2) Women in struggle: 3 former political prisoners, the lawyer and 2 mothers of prisoners (the women with the scarves)

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