Georges Abdallah receives hero’s welcome in Beirut after four decades in French prison, reaffirms commitment to resistance

August 1st, 20250 BEIRUT – French authorities released Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese leftist pro-Palestinian and Europe’s longest-held political prisoner, last Friday, after 41 years in detention. Abdallah, who was arrested in the early 1980s on charges of conspiring to assassinate an American and an Israeli diplomat, arrived at Beirut’s...

Demonstrators in Washington, D.C. call on Egypt to #FreeAlaa 

November 9th, 20220 By Laura Albast WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some 40 community members gathered at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. on Monday night. Holding candles and signs, they called for the Egyptian military regime to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian writer and political prisoner. Abd El-Fattah entered the public eye during the 2011...