Thank you dear Fabeha for asking me to participate in the B & W photo challenge, which started in Turkey as a campaign against femicide, violence against women, and the brutal murder of 27-year-old Pinar Gültekin. Without using the hashtag, I would love to celebrate kick-ass women of color from the global south.
This is Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian woman.
‘She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Legislative Council. She is also the Palestinian representative on the Council of Europe and is currently head of the Prisoners Committee. She played a major role in Palestine’s application to join the International Criminal Court.
She has been arrested multiple times by Israeli authorities. Several of these arrests resulted in administrative detention without any charges being brought. She has also been charged and convicted of “incitement and involvement in terror” by an Israeli military court, and sentenced to 15 months in prison, of which she served 6, before being released after an international campaign on her behalf.
She is presently again being held in administrative detention, after being arrested at her home in Ramallah, in late October, 2019.’
