LONDON: Human Rights Watch has called on Israel to release 37-year-old French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri and reinstate his residency status in his home city of Jerusalem. Hamouri was arrested on March 7 at his home in East Jerusalem based on secret evidence, and has had no charges brought against him since, HRW said. His residency was revoked on Oct. 17 last
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Salah Hamouri's repeated arrests by Israel have been the subject of considerable controversy in his mother's native France, with enormous civil society campaigns mobilizing for his release. In this article for Jacobin, he gives a firsthand account of his struggle, the battle for Jerusalem, and the wider fight for Palestinian justice. The day after it appeared he was arrested again.