American Citizens Deported from Bahrain for Human Rights Work

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Freegaza
Feb. 12, 2012

Image by Al Jazeera English via Flickr

Government Cracks Down on International Witnesses as Bahrainis Prepare for Return to Pearl Roundabout

For immediate release

Contact:

Adam Shapiro +353-85-236-0262 (UK/Ireland)
Jessica Rafael:+973-3345-1787 (in Bahrain)

February 12, 2011

(Manama) – Radhika Sainath and Huwaida Arraf, chair of the Free Gaza movement, were arrested yesterday while filming police repression of a peaceful demonstration in Manama, have been deported by the Bahraini government.

Huwaida Arraf: Breaking the Blockade

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AlternateFocus on Jul 6, 2011

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The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian led movement committed to solving issues between Israel and Palestine. Huwaida Arraf is one of the co-founders of the group and was filmed giving a speech at San Diego State University. During her speech, Huwaida talks about the history of the Palestinian people and the ISM’s role in trying to aid them. Also mentioned in her speech is the ISM’s attempts in sending aid to Gaza by boat. In one of their more recent voyages the group sent a ‘flotilla’ of ships to gaza that was intercepted by the Israeli Navy. During the interception civilians were shot and killed on one of the ISM’s boats which lead to an investigation by the United Nations.

Israel Arrests Free Gaza Chairwoman, Huwaida Arraf + Bil’in Protest videos

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Written by Free Gaza team
Freegaza
04 June 2010

Huwaida Arraf, Chairwoman and one of the passengers on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza was arrested today by Israeli Border Police at the weekly nonviolent demonstration in Bil’in. Bilin (http://www.bilin-village.org/english/) is the West Bank village outside of Ramallah, Palestine.

IDF Boarding Gaza Aid Flotilla + Norman Finkelstein & Huwaida Arraf: Israel’s Attack + Richard Falk: “Shameful Thing” in Gaza

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Hovhanness83 — June 01, 2010

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IDF Boarding Gaza Aid Flotilla 31.05.2010

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GRITtv

GRITtv: Norman Finkelstein & Huwaida Arraf: Israel’s Attack

Adam Shapiro: Expose Israel’s policy to the world + Eyewitness and victim recounts Israeli flotilla attack + Captain recounts Israeli attack

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RTAmerica

June 01, 2010 — The purpose of the Free Gaza Freedom Flotilla was to break the Israeli blockade that has been imposed on Gaza, a form of collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians who are trying to survive at this point. Adam Shapiro in New York is a board member of the Free Gaza movement, one of the groups that coordinated the Freedom Flotilla. His wife Huwaida Arraf is the chairperson of the Free Gaza movement and is on the flotilla.

Threatened And Beaten On The Way To Gaza + Free Gaza–and Palestine

By Adam Shapiro
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
July 17, 2009

I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our intent was to bring Palestinians toys, medicines, toolkits, olive tree saplings, and one 50-kilo bag of cement while breaking the sea barrier Israel maintains to imprison Palestinians in their coastal territory.

An independent filmmaker, and human rights advocate, I planned to document the trip and life in Gaza.

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via Threatened And Beaten On The Way To Gaza

h/t: Freegaza

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Free Gaza–and Palestine

By Huwaida Arraf
http://www.thenation.com
July 17, 2009

Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, toolkits, a fifty-kilo bag of cement and school supplies on our small converted ferry boat.

At 2 AM on June 30, almost eighteen hours into the 230-mile journey, a colleague awakened me. The Israeli Navy was calling our boat on the VHF radio. “You are navigating towards a blockaded area. You are hereby ordered to change your course. If you do not, we will be forced to use all necessary force to stop you.”

via Free Gaza–and Palestine

h/t: Freegaza

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Season of Travesties – Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009 By Noam Chomsky

Video leading to capture of Cynthia McKinney and FreeGaza + Viva Palestina US update

Spirit of Humanity Free Gaza 21