Happy 17th Birthday Rally to #FreeAhedTamimi and all Palestinian Children in Israeli jails
1.2.18
On Her 17th Birthday, Rally to #FreeAhedTamimi & All Palestinian Political Prisoners
WHEN: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018, at 5 PM Central Time
WHERE: Israeli Consulate, 500 W. Madison, downtown Chicago
RSVP on Facebook
On Wednesday, January 31, join us to wish a Happy Birthday to Ahed
Tamimi, who will be turning 17 behind bars, as she awaits her trial in
an Israeli military court system which convicts 99.8% percent of
Palestinians that come before it.
Join us as we celebrate her birthday and ask commuters to call their
legislators! We'll be outside the Ogilvie Transportation Center at 500
W. Madison - the Israeli Consulate is inside this building.
We will call for her immediate release and freedom for all Palestinian
children in Israeli jails, as well as for legislators to support the
recently-introduced Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act, H.R. 4391, which, if passed, would ensure that U.S. tax dollars aren't subsidizing the mistreatment of Palestinian children.
BACKGROUND: On
December 19, Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was stolen
from her home in the dead of night by Israeli soldiers. She was arrested
after a video that her mother, Nariman, took went viral, showing Ahed's
refusal to back down in the face of soldiers who were trying to enter
their house. The Tamimis are well-known in their village of Nabih Saleh
for their weekly protests against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Ahed has been in the custody of Israeli Occupation Forces for weeks, and
has been charged with assault in an Israeli military court for slapping
the armed soldier who attempted to force his way into her home hours
after after her 14-year-old cousin was shot in the face with a
rubber-coated steel bullet by the Israeli military.
The charges she faces could carry a sentence of up to ten years. Each
year, the Israeli military arrests and prosecutes around 700 Palestinian
children.
#FreeAhed #FreeAhedTamimi
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