BEIRUT:
Several people gathered Thursday in front of the National Museum in Beirut in
solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and Arab prisoners in
their countries.
Protesters
held signs demanding "freedom for prisoners" and condemned the
"prevailing repressive practices by Arab regimes."
“For
64 years, Palestine has been teaching us how to persevere and how to make
resistance our daily bread. It taught us not to trust our rulers and that
freedom can only be attained by the people,” said Mohammad Safa, head of the
Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture, reading a statement on
behalf of the protesters.
"When the Arab people
began saying [The people want], we knew that the freedom of Palestine is the
freedom of Arab people. We knew then that our battle against occupation and
imperialism is a battle against our own regimes, against misery and defeatism,”
he added.
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