The struggle history of the leader detainee Marwan Barghouthi
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The struggle history of the leader detainee Marwan Barghouthi
Marwan was born in 1959, and he is from Kobar/ Ramallah and considered the first member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement and the first representative to be arrested by the Israeli authorities and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He started his struggle life early, and was detained for the first time in 1976, as the repeated detentions constituted a turning point in his life, where his joined Birzeit University after getting released in 1983, elected as a chairman of students’ council and established the Fatah youth movement. He got arrested in 1984 for weeks and in 1985 for 50 days, in which he was exposed to tough interrogation, sentenced to house custody and sentenced to administrative detention in the same year.
The occupation authorities started to chase him in 1986, then he got arrested and deported, worked with the martyr Abu Jihad.
He was elected as a member in the Fifth Conference of Fatah Movement in 1989, and he came back home on April 1994 and elected as secretary of Fatah movement in the West Bank, to start a new phase of struggle works. He was elected as a member of the Legislative Council of Fatah Movement in 1996.
The Israeli authorities charged him with establishing AlAqsa martyrs brigades during AlAqsa uprising, where he was chased and subjected to two assassination attempts
On April 2002, he got arrested during the West Bank invasion, where he was exposed to torture and isolation for more than one thousand days, and then he got sentenced to life time imprisonment in 2004.
After the judgment he said “if losing my freedom equals the freedom of my people, I am ready to pay the price”.
He was the head of the united list in the second elections of legislative council in 2006.
He took the initiative to draft the detainees’ charter with his colleagues, and signed in the behalf of Fatah Movement the “Detainees’ charter of national reconciliation”, issued by leader detainees of different factions in the Israeli prisons. The PLO adopted this charter as a basis of the national reconciliation conference.
Barghouthi had his PHD in political science from Research and Studies Institute of the Arab League while being held in the isolation of Hadarim prison in 2010. He released many books over the past years in prison, such as “One thousand days in the cell of solitary confinement”.
He led an open hunger strike in the memorial of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day in 2017, with 1600 detainees and lasted for 42 days.
Marwan was born in 1959, and he is from Kobar/ Ramallah and considered the first member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement and the first representative to be arrested by the Israeli authorities and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He started his struggle life early, and was detained for the first time in 1976, as the repeated detentions constituted a turning point in his life, where his joined Birzeit University after getting released in 1983, elected as a chairman of students’ council and established the Fatah youth movement. He got arrested in 1984 for weeks and in 1985 for 50 days, in which he was exposed to tough interrogation, sentenced to house custody and sentenced to administrative detention in the same year.
The occupation authorities started to chase him in 1986, then he got arrested and deported, worked with the martyr Abu Jihad.
He was elected as a member in the Fifth Conference of Fatah Movement in 1989, and he came back home on April 1994 and elected as secretary of Fatah movement in the West Bank, to start a new phase of struggle works. He was elected as a member of the Legislative Council of Fatah Movement in 1996.
The Israeli authorities charged him with establishing AlAqsa martyrs brigades during AlAqsa uprising, where he was chased and subjected to two assassination attempts
On April 2002, he got arrested during the West Bank invasion, where he was exposed to torture and isolation for more than one thousand days, and then he got sentenced to life time imprisonment in 2004.
After the judgment he said “if losing my freedom equals the freedom of my people, I am ready to pay the price”.
He was the head of the united list in the second elections of legislative council in 2006.
He took the initiative to draft the detainees’ charter with his colleagues, and signed in the behalf of Fatah Movement the “Detainees’ charter of national reconciliation”, issued by leader detainees of different factions in the Israeli prisons. The PLO adopted this charter as a basis of the national reconciliation conference.
Barghouthi had his PHD in political science from Research and Studies Institute of the Arab League while being held in the isolation of Hadarim prison in 2010. He released many books over the past years in prison, such as “One thousand days in the cell of solitary confinement”.
He led an open hunger strike in the memorial of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day in 2017, with 1600 detainees and lasted for 42 days.