While the campaign has taken a short break in order to regroup, strategize and plan the next steps. We are now prepared to continue our work and invite all partners and supporters to join us in advancing the struggle for justice for Salah.
Such a move constitutes a war crime of forcible deportation of a protected civilian from the occupied territory, as defined in Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. More importantly, it stands as a horrifying escalation of Israel’s systematic practice of demographic engineering and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli settler-colonial authorities are unlawfully deporting French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri from his hometown, Jerusalem, to France for “breach of allegiance” to the occupying state.
Detained by Israel and threatened with deportation, Palestinian human rights lawyer writes from prison a letter of defiance, refusing to apologise for standing up to the occupation and colonisation of his homeland.
Israel has recently announced it will imminently deport Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hamouri, an act that could be a serious violation of international law.
Imprisoned Palestinian-French human rights lawyer, Salah Hammouri, has been informed that he will be forcibly deported in three days’ time for “breach of allegiance” to Israel, following the revocation of his Jerusalem ID. Salah’s deportation will be a definitive step in Israel’s prolonged harassment and targeting of him and his work through arbitrary arrests, travel bans, surveillance spyware, and family separation.
UN independent experts have called on Israel to immediately release Salah Hammouri.
03 October 2022 The Justice for Salah campaign is extremely alarmed by the inhumane treatment of the Israeli apartheid regime against our colleague, human rights… Read More »Urgent Action: Salah Hammouri on Ninth Day of Hunger Strike
Today, September 4, 2022— only hours from his expected release from Hadarim prison— the Israeli occupation renewed the administrative detention of Salah for another three… Read More »Statement on the second renewal of the Administrative Detention of HDR Salah Hammouri
Today I am in a Bastille called “Ofer” in the occupied Palestinian Territory, being held for a third time under ‘administrative detention’. There have been no charges issued against me, and me and my fellow prisoners are subject to military courts similar to those that sentenced General De Gaulle to execution and citizenship revocation.
