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My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

On 18 September 2023, the United States and Iran exchanged a total of ten prisoners as part of a deal in which Washington additionally provided sanctions waivers to enable South Korea to transfer payment for oil it had previously purchased from Iran into restricted accounts in Qatar. Mouin Rabba..

Juliette Elmir Sa’adeh was the first woman political prisoner in post Sykes-Picot Syria. This fact alone was reason enough to translate her memoirs. Indeed, one of my colleagues exclaimed “this is the stuff of movies” when I shared some pages of the memoirs wit..

In May 2021, sparked by the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah and the bombings of Gaza, Palestinians overcame the borders and boundaries separating them and rose up in the “Unity Uprising”. In just five days, between May 9 and 14, over 700 Palestinian citizens of Israel were detained, ma..

Palestinians across the world watched in awe and jubilation as news spread of the Gilboa prison escape on September 6, 2021, when six incarcerated Palestinian men used a spoon (as well as broken dishes and pans) to dig a tunnel out of one of Israel’s most “secure” prisons, manifesting the unimag..

Prisoner of the Infidels is the first-person account of a young Ottoman soldier who, taken prisoner a few years after the failed siege of Vienna in 1683, spent more than a decade as an enslaved captive in Christian Europe.

Jadaliyya and the Arabic Hour collaborated to discuss the issue of political prisoners in Egypt with a particular focus on Ramy Shaath in a conversation featuring Celine Lebrun Shaath, Hussein Baoumi, and moderated by Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat. Shaath is an Egyptian Citizen of Pales..

Malihe Razazan spoke to Human Rights Watch (HRW) Iran Researcher Tara Sepehri Far about Nasrin Sotoudeh's hunger strike and the criminalization of peaceful protests in Iran. Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer, who was arrested in 2010 and started her second hunger strike this year in Aug..

A collective of Algerian intellectuals and activists, joined by writers, magistrates and artists from all over the world, denounces a "repressive policy" towards a peaceful and responsible movement.

As we were completing this roundtable, the supreme court in Iran decided to uphold death sentences issued against three protestors—Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi, and Saeed Tamjidi—who participated in demonstrations last November against a dec..

In the second episode of “1979 Generation,” Jadaliyya’s Iran Page co-editor, Manijeh Moradian interviews Shahla Talebi on the liberation of political prisoners, the intersection of gender, class and revolution, and the emergence of “proletarian feminism.”

Palestinian prisoners are far more likely to contract COVID-19 than the general Palestinian population, even those living in dense refugee camps. They live with pervasive medical negligence, overcrowding, improper ventilation, lack of access to sanitation supplies and poor nutrition. These condi..

In late February, amid the catastrophic spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, relatives of several of Iran’s prisoners of conscience wrote an open letter to Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi demanding the imm..

This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Palestine and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Palestine Page co-editors or of Jadaliyya.

In 2018, the Israeli occupation authorities continued implementing their main policy to enshrine the apartheid and racism regime against Palestinians, this policy is integrated within its laws, judiciary and practices. One example is enacting bills based on reactions to incidents, or as part of ..

“I call upon your consciences, to tell you that I am now living my last days or even hours. I am asking for one last wish, which is to live these last moments of my life with my mother, relatives and loved ones. I do not want to pass away while handcuffed in front of a jailor who enjoys seeing u..

After nearly three decades of struggle for women’s rights as well as feminist campaigning in Saudi Arabia, the ban on women driving will be lifted on 24 June 2018. This came as part of wider..

Considerable public and media attention has recently been paid to Israel’s detention and prosecution of Ahed Tamimi – the teenager who was filmed slapping Israeli soldiers on her family’s property shortly after a soldier shot her cousin in the head at close range. Once the video of the incident ..

Khalida Jarrar is a longtime Palestinian activist, feminist, and leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She served as the Director of the

[The following statement was issued by The U.S. Prisoner, Labor and Academic Solidarity Delegation to Palestine in April 2016]

We Stand with Palestine in the Spirit of “Sumud”

The U.S. Prisoner, Labor and Academic Solidarity Delegation to Pale..

[The following statement (in English and Arabic, below) by the Campaign in Solidarity with the Struggler Omar Nayef Zayed, was issued by Palestinian organizers inside and outside occupied Palestine, demanding the freedom of, and an end..