Palestinian prisoner of conscience on trial for defending right to protest

By Amnesty International’s Israel/OPT/PA Campaigner
It’s a year since Bassem Tamimi was arrested by the Israeli army for organizing non-violent protests against the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements on land belonging to his village.
The 44-year-old father of three lives in al-Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank. Prior to his arrest on 24 March 2011 […]