Joint Public Statement by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, War Resisters' International, Amnesty International Greek Section

Nosotros, los miembros del la Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra (IRG) y todos los participantes de la conferencia trienal celebrada in Ahmadabad entre el 22 y el 25 de enero de 2010 hemos debatido, como parte de nuestras deliberaciones, la situación actual en Bastar en la región de Chhattisgarh.

The War Resisters’ International condemns the arrest on 28 January 2010 of Mohammed Khatib of Bil’in, Palestine.

The War Resisters’ International Council, assembled in Ahmedabad, India, learned of the arrest of Mohammed Khatib by the Israeli military at his home at 1:45 am yesterday. Mohammed Khatib has played a central role in the popular committee planning and coordinating the struggle of the Bil’in village against the Apartheid Wall, constructed by Israel inside the 1967 occupied territories.

On 26 April 2009, five members of WRI's Israeli affiliate New Profile were detained by Israeli police, their homes raided, and their computers, and also computers of partners, seized. Among those detained was also Sergeiy Sandler, a member of the WRI Council and Executive Committee. All those detained were interrogated at Ramat Hachiyal police station in the Yarkon Region of the police. After the interrogation, all five were released, but only after agreeing to bail conditions which do not allow them to contact each other in the coming thirty days.