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Person · Human rights lawyer
born 1953
Born in Gaza on 31 December 1953, he studied law in Beirut and Alexandria and practised in Gaza from 1977, defending people before Israel’s military courts; he was jailed by Israel from 1979 to 1982 and arrested again and again in the first Intifada. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1991, directed the Gaza Center for Rights and Law, and in 1995 co-founded the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza; that year the Palestinian Authority also arrested him for criticising its state security courts.
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الانتفاضة الأولى
Ongoing activity · not a separate dated incident
A popular uprising across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, from 9 December 1987 to the signing of the Oslo agreement on 13 September 1993: mass demonstrations, strikes and civil disobedience, led on the ground by a clandestine unified leadership.
Defended human and legal rights, and was repeatedly arrested
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities
document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
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PersonRaji Sourani was born in PlaceGaza City
Role: Born here: 31 December 1953, Gaza
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: Born in Gaza on 31 Dec. 1953
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonRaji Sourani participated in EventThe First Intifada
Role: Defended human and legal rights, and was repeatedly arrested
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: was an outspoken advocate of human and legal rights during the first Intifada, for which he was repeatedly arrested
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.