Viva Palestina | Aug 13, 2011 Viva Palestina is returning to Gaza with our sixth major international aid mission to bring an end to the illegal siege. Much has changed for the Palestinian people and the wider region in the 11 months since our last convoy. Dictatorship has fallen in Egypt. Palestine has moved up [...]
Tag Archives: UK
UK condemns Israeli settlement plan
PressTV – Sun Aug 7, 2011 11:47AM GMT The British Foreign Office has condemned Israel’s plan to build 930 new housing units in the illegal settlement of Har Homa in the southern East al-Quds (Jerusalem). “I condemn yesterday’s announcement by the Government of Israel to approve the construction of over 900 housing units which will [...]
Breivik sent ‘manifesto’ to 250 UK contacts hours before Norway killings
Using the name Andrew Berwick, Norwegian killer emailed 1,500 page document and YouTube video across Europe Matthew Taylor | guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 July 2011 23.58 BST Anders Behring Breivik emailed his 1,500-page manifesto to far-right contacts across western Europe. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The man responsible for the mass killing in Norway emailed his 1,500-page document [...]
UK court releases Raed Salah as government case flounders
Asa Winstanley |The Electronic Intifada |London|18 July 2011 A 12 July protest staged by the Arab Doctors Union outside the British Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, called for the release of Sheikh Raed Salah (Mohamed Hossam /AFP Photo) After nearly three weeks in British jails, influential Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was conditionally [...]
Salah walks out of prison after High Court sets bail
[ 18/07/2011 - 04:56 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has been released from the UK’s Bedford prison after a bail was set by the British High Court. Salah was held for three weeks while in the United Kingdom after Home Secretary Theresa May claimed a travel [...]
Khatib: UK involved in Israeli conspiracy against Sheikh Salah
[ 17/07/2011 - 02:29 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, has said that the UK was involved in an Israeli conspiracy to silence Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the movement. He said in a press statement on Sunday that the detention of Sheikh [...]
Salah bailed, awaiting hearing
PressTV - Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:44PM Palestinian senior cleric Sheikh Raed Salah accused of illegally entering Britain has been finally granted bail, while waiting for a deportation hearing. Sheikh Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was arrested based on an order by UK Home Secretary Theresa [...]
Detained Sheikh Raed Salah freed on bail
Politics 7/15/2011 6:44:00 PM | KUNA LONDON, July 15 (KUNA) — A Palestinian activist detained on the orders of UK Home Secretary Theresa May after flying into Britain to speak to politicians, was Friday freed on bail by a High Court judge pending the outcome of legal challenges. Sheikh Raed Salah, 52, is challenging the [...]
OIC demands release of Sheikh Salah in contacts with British officials
[ 11/07/2011 - 05:23 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Secretary General of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has made contacts with a number of British government officials asking for the release of Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine. An OIC press release on Monday said that Ihsanoglu [...]
Archbishop Atallah Hanna calls for release of Sheikh Raed Salah
Monday, 11 July 2011 13:00 | MEMO Archbishop of Sebastia demands that the British authorities release Sheikh Raed and enable him to continue his visit of Britain. The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Atallah Hana, has expressed his sympathy and solidarity with Sheikh Raed Salah who is currently being detained [...]
Israeli regime arrests 12 Britons
PressTV - Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:10AM Zionist regime authorities have arrested 12 Britons on their way to visit Beit-ul-Lahm in the occupied West Bank, according to campaigners. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which was coordinating the British arm of the visit, said its chairman Mick Napier, 64, a university teacher, was amongst four [...]
10,000 sign petition for Sheik Raed Salah’s release
PressTV - Sat Jul 9, 2011 10:18AM 10,000 people in Britain, among them civil rights activists, have signed a petition for the release of Sheikh Raed Salah, the most influential Palestinian political leader in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This petition, which has been signed by 10,000 in just a week, is to be handed [...]
British court denies bail for Salah
[ 09/07/2011 - 03:15 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– A British court has denied bail for Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, after the judge said Salah was a “menace to the public”. The judge in the Salah case said during a session on Friday that the country’s supreme [...]
Haneyya calls on London to free Raed Salah
[ 09/07/2011 - 10:51 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya has called on the British government to release leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, who was kept prisoner after his appeal on a deportation decision was denied. “We stand by Sheikh Raed Salah and we demand his release and [...]
#RaedSalah | Rabbi Meir Hirsh: The idea of Sheikh Raed Salah being charged in the United Kingdom with anti-Semitism is astounding
Thursday, 07 July 2011 13:00| MEMO The good Shaykh has consistently expressed his friendship and brotherhood for the Jewish People and publicly embraced myself and my Jewish brethren countless times. Rabbi Meir Hirsh, Jerusalem – Arrest of Shaykh Raed Salah in London There are very few people in Jerusalem who have not heard of or [...]