Bushra al-Tawil

Bushra al-Tawil is a Palestinian journalist, former Palestinian prisoner and prisoners' rights activist from Ramallah who has frequently been held under administrative detention without charge by Israel. She is the spokesperson for the Aneen Al-Qaid Media Network, a local news agency specialized in covering news about the Palestinian detainees, and political prisoners.[1]

Al-Tawil's father is Jamal al-Tawil, a prominent Hamas leader,[2] former mayor of Al-Bireh, and former prisoner and has spent many years in prison.[3][4] Her husband Mohammed al-Tawil has been imprisoned since August 19, 2002 and is serving nine life sentences in Israeli prisons.[1] She has three brothers.[3]

Education and career

Al-Tawil graduated from the Modern University College in Ramallah in 2013 where she studied journalism and photography. After her studies, she began working at the Aneen Al-Qaid Media Network, which she is the spokesperson for.[3]

Arrests and detention

Al-Tawil was arrested in 2011 at the age of 18 by Israeli authorities and sentenced to 16 months in prison but freed five months later as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.[1] On July 1, 2014 she was rearrested and had her former sentence reimposed by a military court, she served the remainder eleven months in prison.[4] She was released in May 2015.[1]

On November 1, 2017 she was again arrested and on November 7 ordered to administrative detention, incarceration without trial or charge.[1] She spent eight months in prison.[5]

On December 11, 2019, she was again arrested again, after Israeli soldiers raided the Umm Al-Sharayet neighbourhood in al-Bireh.[6] The arrest came less than a week after the release of her father, who had been held in administrative detention for two years.[6] She was sentenced to administrative detention on December 16,[7] for which she was held in the Hasharon prison in northern Israel.[5]

On November 8, 2020, she was again arrested.

References
  1. "Activist, journalist Bushra al-Tawil sixth Palestinian woman currently imprisoned in administrative detention". Samidoun. November 7, 2017.
  2. "Israel arrests senior Hamas commander in the West Bank". Times of Israel.
  3. "Bushra al-Taweel". Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  4. "Bushra al-Tawil, journalist and activist, has former sentence reimposed by military court". December 10, 2014.
  5. "Two Palestinian women moved to Israeli administrative detention". www.aljazeera.com.
  6. "Israel arrests six Palestinians, including activist, journalist Bushra al-Tawil". The New Arab.
  7. "Israel renews administrative detention for female Palestinian journalist". March 31, 2020.
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