The Palestine Voices Tent this year is dedicated to Palestinian people who have been imprisoned. Imprisonment by the Zionist state is often arbitrary and always without justification, is used as a tool to silence resistance, split families and isolate individuals. Recently, the Knesset passed a new law that will put Palestinian people in prison at grave risk of execution.
One person we will be really pleased to welcome is Mahmoud Masheyech. Mahmoud, a journalist, was in prison for two years because of a facebook post . All his facebook was then removed as it so angered the Israeli state. Mahmoud will talk to us about his experience, but you can see from these pictures and videos the great relief of his relief and the immense violence of his arrest.
You can read more about the Red Ribbon Campaign in Sheffield in support of Palestinian prisoners here. Find out more about the Palestine Voices Tent here