{"id":3313,"date":"2026-06-17T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:45:57","slug":"welcome-to-our-palestinian-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/welcome-to-our-palestinian-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our Palestinian guests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we have mentioned in a previous blog we will be zooming with <a href=\"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/spotlight-on-palestine-voices-tent\/\">Mahmoud<\/a> on Saturday afternoon. We are now really pleased to say more about our other guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-3315\" style=\"max-width: 400px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-110-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-3315 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default-base\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"PVT Guests Saturday June 20th 2026\" data-height=\"400\" data-width=\"400\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_3315\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_3315\">\n            <ul aria-live='off' class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-3322 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-06-17 14:35:03\" data-filename=\"umm-jabr-320x320.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spbr.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/umm-jabr-320x320.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-3315 slide-3322 msDefaultImage\" title=\"umm jabr\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Umm Jabr<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-3321 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-06-17 14:35:03\" data-filename=\"qutaiba-400x400.png\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spbr.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/qutaiba-400x400.png?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-3315 slide-3321 msDefaultImage\" title=\"qutaiba\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Qutaiba<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-3325 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-06-17 14:35:03\" data-filename=\"anas-334x334.png\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spbr.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/anas-334x334.png?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-3315 slide-3325 msDefaultImage\" title=\"anas\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Anas<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-3324 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-06-17 14:35:03\" data-filename=\"sahar_francis-2-250x250.jpeg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spbr.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sahar_francis-2-250x250.jpeg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-3315 slide-3324 msDefaultImage\" title=\"sahar_francis 2\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Sahar<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-3323 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-06-17 14:35:03\" data-filename=\"heba-400x400.png\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spbr.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/heba-400x400.png?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-3315 slide-3323 msDefaultImage\" title=\"heba\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Heba<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme schedule is <a href=\"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/small-park-big-run-programme-2026#PVT\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nihad Wahdan (known as &#8220;Umm Jabr&#8221;):\u00a0<\/strong> She was sentenced for\u00a021 years; which were then reduced to three years and prohibition of travel for 21 years. She began formal political\u00a0and social activities through the Student Youth Movement in 1984.\u00a0 She is a mother of nine children and she has also worked on progressive legal and social change, including advocating for a woman&#8217;s right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Qutaiba Musallam<\/strong>: from the village of Talfet near Nablus. He spent a total of 33 years of his life in prison. He was imprisoned four times. The latest arrest , in 2000, resulted in him being for 37 years . He was released in 2025 in the prisoner exchange that took place in January 2025 after 24.5 years. He is married and has 5 children and 11 grandchildren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his photo in the slideshow above to the left of him is a quite from one of hs novels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Prison does not confine a body; it liberates a soul.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anas Abu Srour<\/strong>: we focused on Anas in our <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/ef160cb11696\/update-on-our-friend-anas-from-aida-camp\">newsletter<\/a> when he was arrested in 2024; at this time his child was three months old. Anas, executive director of Aida Youth Centre, will talk to us about the impact on him personally but also wider social impacts of the imprisonment drive by the occupation forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sahar Francis<\/strong>:  We are so lucky to be able to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/?p=3286\">Sahar<\/a>.  She  is a Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender, with long expertise in international humanitarian law,\u00a0international human rights law and\u00a0international criminal law.\u00a0She previously worked in Addameer\u00a0Prisoner\u00a0Support and\u00a0Human\u00a0Rights\u00a0Association for the last 27 years, defending Palestinian political prisoners under the Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her long&nbsp;career, Francis worked closely with the UN&nbsp;Special&nbsp;Procedures system and appeared as a witness in front of the United Nations Fact&nbsp;Finding&nbsp;Mission on the Gaza&nbsp;War \u2013 Goldstone, and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis received\u00a0numerous awards for her work, including\u00a0the 7th \u201c Alicia Salcedo\u201d award of Equality of the Oviedo Bar Association on 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Heba Muraisi<\/strong>: Many of us in Sheffield travelled to Newhall Prison late in 2025 and early this year as Heba&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/prisonersforpalestine.org\/prisoner\/heba-muraisi\/\">hunger strike<\/a> lengthened into dangerous territory. One of the Filton 25, Heba was arrested on November 19th 2024  on allegations of being connected to the Filton action . She was held on remand until released in February 2026 after widespread support and activism. She faces trial later this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heba will talk to use about imprisonment as a tool for silencing resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have mentioned in a previous blog we will be zooming with Mahmoud on Saturday afternoon. We are now really pleased to say more about our other guests. The programme schedule is here Nihad Wahdan (known as &#8220;Umm Jabr&#8221;):\u00a0 She was sentenced for\u00a021 years; which were then reduced to three years and prohibition of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/welcome-to-our-palestinian-guests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to our Palestinian guests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spbr.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}