My family endured another heartbreaking setback last Tuesday in the case of my husband, Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Although Abdallah's prison sentence ended November 18th, the Israeli Military Court of Appeals ruled that he should be held for three additional months. My husband has been gone for 13 months already, since...
Posted December 15, 2010 | 09:07:27 (EST)
Saturday, December 12, 2010, was a happy day in Bil'in: After one and a half year in prison Abdallah's cousin Adeeb was released from prison. Adeeb was arrested while protesting against the Wall and settlements and has been held in an Israeli military prison since the 10th of July 2009....
Posted December 9, 2010 | 15:42:01 (EST)
My imprisoned husband Abdullah Abu Rahmah passed the following message through his lawyer:
A year ago tonight, on International Human Rights Day, our apartment in Ramallah was broken into by the Israeli military in the middle of the night and I was torn away from my wife Majida, my...
Posted November 24, 2010 | 11:05:30 (EST)
Al Eid is a holy time of the year for Muslims. Families gather and visit each other over the four-day holiday, which are for most a time for families to be together. When one member of the family is missing, it makes it hard to enjoy Al Eid in the...
Posted February 19, 2010 | 17:36:55 (EST)
It has been two months since my husband, Abdullah Abu Rahmah was arrested. We miss him more every day. This letter from was conveyed from his prison cell by his lawyers:
Dear Friends and Supporters,
It has been two months now since I was handcuffed, blindfolded and taken...
Posted February 17, 2010 | 16:57:18 (EST)
For the last five years our village, Bil'in, has been holding weekly protests against the apartheid wall and settlement built on our land. In Bil'in we fight against the theft of our land with creative nonviolence. From the beginning we've tried to think of a new theme for each demonstration....
Posted January 9, 2010 | 12:55:00 (EST)
On Tuesday, January 5, I attended the trial of my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah in an Israeli military detention camp. Ofer Military Base is a dark and dehumanizing place, but I was happy to go there because it meant that I would finally see my husband.
I joined my friend...
Posted January 4, 2010 | 13:03:59 (EST)
On International Human Rights Day in 2008, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. Last year on the same day, December 10th, Abdallah was taken away at 2am by Israeli soldiers who broke into our West Bank home. Abdallah...
Posted January 17, 2011 | 14:20:42 (EST)