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Breaking the Chain, with Arab Barghouthi, Ben Marmarelli @mrmrly44557 & Sahar Francis @Addameer, is now available online. Hear from prisoners rights advocates on the front line, & join the fight from afar. #PalestinianPrisonersDay #FreeMarwan #FreeThemAll m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFEhRs…

“They do not want lawyers visiting, and when a court forces them to allow visits, they torture the prisoner before each one so that the prisoner will ask his own lawyer not to return. In this [other] client’s case, the assault was carried out with a mop handle inserted anally… ”

Ben Marmarelli: “I do not think Marwan is receiving harsher treatment. I think he is receiving ordinary treatment — the ordinary treatment that Palestinian prisoners receive. That is precisely what makes it so alarming.” #FreedomForPalestinianPrisoners #FreeMarwan #FreeThemAll

“All Palestinian political prisoners face kangaroo courts in Israel. … You appear before a court run by the occupying power, and you are always convicted. There is no real possibility of acquittal, especially not for a leader of the resistance.” jurist.org/features/2026/…

This reminds me of the murder of our colleague Samer Abu Daqqa. Samer was left to bleed for hours while his employer, foreign journalists & others all tried to convince Israel to let rescuers reach him. His killers went unpunished, and have killed hundreds of journalists since.

Lest we forget.

From the West Bank to the rest of the world, artists are coming together to call for the release of Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian political prisoners. “As a Palestinian artist, as a Palestinian human first, I insisted on making my voice heard around the world, by any means necessary. I believe that painting in public spaces offers a greater opportunity for ideas to spread more widely. As long as every loud Palestinian voice is threatened with silencing, art resistance remains one of the most important tools of Palestinian culture.” So grab your paints, cut your stencil, make your mark—let the world know enough is enough. Download a free stencil: resources.freemarwan.org

“Israeli officials are effectively green-lighting the use of sexual violence, when they decide not to prosecute the most high-profile case, which is extremely well documented. There is a culture of accepting sexualised assault against Palestinians.” theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

“Breaking the Chain: Freedom for Palestinian political prisoners” webinar link in pinned tweet. ^^^ We were privileged to have expert insight from Ben and others on the ground. Please watch and share widely. ✌🏽🇵🇸 #PalestinianPrisonersDay #MarwanBarghouti #FreeMarwan #FreeThemAll

Unchallenged in Palestine, repeated in Lebanon: Israel continues its systematic pattern of threatening, targeting and assassinating journalists.

@FPMelbourne Free Palestine Melbourne and the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) are proud to present the webinar Breaking the Chain: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners on Wednesday 15 April at 6:30pm. Abduction, imprisonment, torture and corporal punishment are crucial tools of Israel’s genocide and occupation in Palestine. Hear the truth from behind the bars – and demand freedom for Palestinian political prisoners. Speakers: Arab Barghouthi, a prisoners’ rights advocate based in Ramallah, and son of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti Ben Marmarelli, an Israeli human rights lawyer representing Marwan Barghouti Sahar Francis, General Director of human rights organisation Addameer Palestine Maher Mughrabi, Palestinian journalist and writer youtu.be/wFEhRsprLbI?si…

Justice in apartheid Israel: imprisonment without charge, torture, rape, and death by hanging for some; days in custody for others.

I am so sick of people saying the Israeli government / military “enables” settler violence. No. They are literally coordinating it: Plotting out soft targets for violent land theft, arming and protecting them, recognizing their gains through retroactive settlement authorization.

Breaking the Chain, with Arab Barghouthi, Ben Marmarelli @mrmrly44557 & Sahar Francis @Addameer, is now available online. Hear from prisoners rights advocates on the front line, & join the fight from afar. #PalestinianPrisonersDay #FreeMarwan #FreeThemAll m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFEhRs…

🚨 For the second consecutive week, Israeli authorities are preventing students from Umm al-Khair school in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron in the southern West Bank from reaching their school.

Israel systematically uses sexual violence to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in the West Bank. Read the report below ⬇️

ציונות זו אידיאולוגיה פוליטית. לא גזע, לא עם, לא לאום.

Freedom for Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian political prisoners ✌🏽🇵🇸 freepalestinevic.org/campaigns/free…

#PalestinianPrisonersDay #FreePalestine #FreeMarwan #FreeThemAll