Imprisoned

This person has been convicted and may be in the appeals process but is currently incarcerated in prison. Note that people in jail who are awaiting trial do not fit this definition.

Aliaksandr Kazlianka (Aleksandr Kozlyanko)

On March 2, 2021 in Brest, a number of activists and young people, who were probably on the list of Main Department for Combating Organized Crime as politically unreliable, were detained. During the week Aleksandr Kozlyanko, Andrey Marach, Pavel Shpetny, Nikita Dranets, Daniil Chul’, Aleksey Golovko were detained.

Each of the detainees was charged with gross violation of order (Art. 342) and participation in an international criminal organisation (Art. 285.2).

Ishaq Aslam

Ishaq is a Palestine Actionist was sentenced to 14 months for holding Israeli weapons manufacturer, Rafael, to account by planning a rooftop protest on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Due to this actrion, the factory lost almost £300,000 and loss of production time on top of that due to its forced closure for two days.

Marwan Barghouti

Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti was born in the West Bank village of Kobar in 1962. He is a prominent and popular political figure associated with Fatah, currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison. He is a member of the Fatah Central Committee, and of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Often described by Palestinians as the ‘Palestinian Mandela.’

Nael Al-Barghouti

Nael, fron the town of Kober in Ramallah, is the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner. He is serving a life sentence and an additional 18 years after he was first arrested by Israeli forces on April 4, 1978 for engaging in attacks against the Israeli military. He was released 34 years later in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal with Hamas. However, he was rearrested in 2014 and his sentence reinstated following “secret claims” made against him.

Appeals

Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh

Ahed was born in 1968 in Beit Furik, near Nablus. He is serving a life sentence plus 5 years after being jailed by an occupation military court, accused of directing the assassination of the notoriously racist tourism minister of the occupation, Rehavam Ze’evi, in October 2001, in retaliation for the Israeli assassination of PFLP General Secretary Abu Ali Mustafa in August 2001.

Background

Mohammed Hassan Ighbariya

Mohammed is from Umm al-Fahm. Him and his brother Ibrahim Hassan Ighbariya as well as Yahya Ighbariya have been detained since 26 February 1992. They were sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of carrying out a resistance operation in an occupation military camp.

Ibrahim Hassan Ighbariya

Ibrahim is from Umm al-Fahm. Him and his brother Mohammed Hassan Ighbariya as well as Yahya Ighbariya have been detained since 26 February 1992. They were sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of carrying out a resistance operation in an occupation military camp.

Raed Mohammad Al-Sa’adi

Raed was born in Silat al-Harthiyya, west of Jenin. He is the longest-held prisoner from Jenin governorate. He was arrested for the first time when he was 18 in 1984 and imprisoned for six months for raising the Palestinian flag on the electricity poles in Silat al-Harthiyya.

Juma’a Ibrahim Adam

Palestinian prisoner Juma’a Ibrahim Adam was born on 9 March 1969 in Sweileh, Jordan, and lived northwest of the city of Jericho, occupied Palestine, in the town of al-Dyouk. He is one of six brothers, and his father died while he was still a young child in 1972. While imprisoned by the Israeli occupation, he lost his mother, and the prison administration did not allow him to see her before her death or to attend her funeral. “The most difficult and painful situation that I went through during my time in prison was the death of my mother,” he said.

Mohammed Ahmad al-Tus

Muhammad is from Jabaa village in the south of the West Bank. He was arrested on October 6, 1985 for resisting the Israeli occupation as part of Fatah fighters organization. He was shot and injured when he was arrested and then sentenced to life in prison for carrying out anti-occupation operations. He is the sole survivor of the capture operation near the Jordanian border.

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