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Occupation magazine - Activism Home page  back Print  Send To friend Human rights organizations to Israeli government: Lift movement restrictions against Amnesty International employee Roy Yellin via gmail.mcsv.net 26 May, 2020 Press release - for immediate release Human rights organizations to government: Lift movement restrictions against Amnesty International employee Today, 15 organizations publish a joint statement calling to lift movement restrictions against Amnesty International employee: `We stand in solidarity with our colleague from Amnesty International, Laith Abu Zeyad, and demand that Israel lift the movement restrictions barring him from leaving the Occupied Territories. His petition against the restrictions imposed upon him will be heard on 31 May 2020. Targeting Abu Zeyad is yet another example of Israel’s increased persecution and punishment of human rights organizations in recent years. This includes preventing international activists and human rights workers from entering the country and forming a ministry that creates blacklists and engages in censorship. Imposing draconian restrictions and denying millions of Palestinians freedom of movement have been a routine part of Israel’s occupation policy for 53 years. Israel comprehensively violates Palestinians’ right to travel abroad, while regarding its citizens’ rights to do so as fundamental. If it looks like political persecution and sounds like political persecution – it is political persecution, and it must stop. ״ Adalah | B’Tselem | Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights | Breaking the Silence | Gisha HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual | Haqel – In Defense of Human Rights Human Rights Defenders Fund | Ir Amim | Physicians for Human Rights Israe l The Association for Civil Rights in Israel | The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel Torat Tzedek | Yesh Din | Zazim - Community Action For additional information: Roy Yellin +972-54-4654431, ryellin@btselem.org Our mailing address is Links to the latest articles in this section Israelis support Russian opposition to the Ukraine War All to Burin this Friday! Stand with the Palestinians against settler violence! The burial of ashes - an emotionally loaded day