Global solidarity builds for Issa Amro, facing sentencing by Israeli military court – Mondoweiss
Issa Amro at J Street conference, October 2019, Washington convention center. Issa Amro is an anti-apartheid activist in the occupied city of Hebron in Palestine who is dedicated to nonviolence, though he has been arrested by the Israeli military more times than he can remember. “I was arrested, detained, attacked many times… I used to be detained and arrested around 25 times a year,” he says. Last month Amro was convicted in an Israeli military court on six trumped-up charges relating to his work over several years, among them the charge of disrespecting an Israeli soldier by us...
Source: mondoweiss.net