NLG-MN chapter is proud to endorse two speaking engagements by Palestinian human rights activist Ala Jaradat on November 11th.  Please see the announcements below for particulars. 

A Report on the Conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners, featuring human rights activist Ala Jaradat from Addameer

Wednesday, November 11th

12:00pm-2:00pm

Annette K. Levin Moot Court Room,

Hamline University School of Law

1536 Hewitt Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55104

(campus map: http://www.hamline.edu/visitors/PDF/campus_map.pdf)

Open to the Public

Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild-Hamline Student Chapter and the Hamline Chapter of the International Law Students Association

Israel’s Palestinian Prisoners - America’s Other Guantanamo

 Wednesday, Nov. 11th @ 7PM Blegen Hall Rm 150, West Bank, U of M

(for a map go to http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/BlegH/BlegH-map.html)

A Report on the Conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners featuring human rights activist Ala Jaradat from Addameer – Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association

The $3 billion dollars of annual U.S. aid to Israel helps fund Israeli prisons and detention centers where 8,100 Palestinian prisoners — including 60 women, 390 children, and 550 administrative detainees held without charge — are imprisoned in substandard conditions and subject to torture.

Human rights activist Ala Jaradat, the program manager of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners rights organization in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, and a former Palestinian political prisoner, will be sharing his experiences campaigning against political prosecution, for the rights of political detainees, actively working against the use of torture, arbitrary detention, the use of isolation, and other forms of political repression. Co-Sponsored by the Anti-War Committee and WAMM.  Endorsed by Al-Aqsa Institute and National Lawyers Guild Minnesota Chapter.