Online, 12 pm Central
The prison is one of the most central tools the Zionist regime uses against the Palestinian people. Mass detention without charge or trial. Torture and solitary confinement. The targeted imprisonment of organizers, journalists, and children…deliberate [attempts] to fragment our people, crush movement leadership, and bury every uprising before it begins.
And yet … From inside the cells, Palestinian political prisoners have shaped our politics, sharpened our movements, and refused erasure. Join this webinar to hear three speakers carrying decades of work between them.
Jinan Chehade is a human rights attorney and graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. She represents students, faculty, and organizations targeted for their political expression, with a focus on government watchlisting, surveillance, and the use of counterterrorism frameworks to suppress Palestinian advocacy. She is also a longtime organizer and co-founder of SJP Chicago and Law Students for Justice in Palestine at Georgetown Law.
Mohammed Hureini is a Palestinian human rights defender from Masafer Yatta, where he resists forced displacement, settler violence, and military expulsion. He is co-founder of Youth of Sumud, a grassroots collective rooted in steadfastness and resistance, and a member of the Right to Education Campaign.
Nida Abu Baker is a nationally recognized advocate whose work focuses on political imprisonment and the criminalization of humanitarian aid. For 17 years, since the unjust incarceration of her father Shukri Abu Baker of the Holy Land Five, she has worked to amplify the voices of Palestinian political prisoners and challenge systems of repression.