{"id":16598,"date":"2019-05-17T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T10:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=16598"},"modified":"2019-05-17T06:51:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T10:51:31","slug":"dareen-tatours-appeal-partially-accepted-poem-is-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/dareen-tatours-appeal-partially-accepted-poem-is-not-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Dareen Tatour\u2019s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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via\u00a0Arabic Literature and Translation<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s battle in Nazareth District Court was a victory for artistic expression but not for free speech, when charges against Dareen Tatour\u2019s poem \u201cResist, My People, Resist Them<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>were overturned, but those for her Facebook posts were upheld:<\/i><\/p>\n

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The ruling came yesterday, May 16,\u00a0in the district court in Nazareth. Shortly after winning the appeal, Tatour re-posted the poem on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

The ruling came three and half years after her ordeal began, in October 2015. What followed was five months which Tatour spent in jail, two and a half years of which she was under house arrest, and the remainder with a conviction hanging over her.<\/p>\n

On Tatour\u2019s website, which is kept up by activists and supporters, they write of the ruling: \u201cIn an absurd twist they upheld the charges related to 2 \u201cnon-poetic\u201d Facebook posts \u2013 and justified her imprisonment\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

It is a victory to the freedom of the arts \u2013 as the wide solidarity \u2013 locally and internationally \u2013 taught the Israeli oppressive apparatus that there is a high price to pay for imprisoning a poet for his poems\u2026.<\/p>\n

Yet it is in no way vindication of the fake \u201cIsraeli Democracy\u201d \u2013 as it still shows how any Palestinian can be persecuted and imprisoned for the slightest expression of verbal opposition to the crimes of the occupation.<\/p>\n

Tatour continues to produce art. Last winter, her photo exhibition \u201cI, Prisoner No. 9022438<\/a>\u201d opened at\u00a0the Arabic-Hebrew \u200eSaraya \u200eTheater in \u200eJaffa, and Tatour also has a show \u2014 \u201cI, Dareen Tatour\u201d \u2014 co-written with theatre artist\u00a0Einat Weizman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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