Khalida Jarrar

Khalida Kan'an Muhammad Jarrar is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Legislative Council . She was active for a number of years in support of Palestinian prisoners , and she is the director of the Adameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association in Ramallah . In 2005 the Israeli authorities refused to allow her to leave to attend a human rights conference in Ireland . In the Palestinian legislative election, 2006 she was elected to the PLC as one of the PFLP's three deputies.

Khalida Jarrar , born 1963, is a Palestinian feminist, human rights activist and senior lawyer for the PLO. She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). She was elected to PLC in January 2006 as one of the PFLP's three deputies and has continued to serve as an elected representative ever since. She is also the Palestinian representative on the Council of Europe and is currently head of the Prisoners Committee of the PLC. She played a major role in Palestine's application to join the International Criminal Court . On April 2, 2015, she was arrested ans held in administrative detention . Subsequently, charges were brought and her trial began on 15 April 2015. In 1985, after a five year engagement, and when she had completed her Masters Degree at Bir Zeit, Jarrar married Ghassan Jarrar, a fellow student, and now a manufacturer of children's furniture, who, though he is no longer a political activist, has been arrested 14 times and spent 11 years, reportedly without trial or charges being laid, under administrative detention in Israeli prisons. The couple have two daughters, Yafa and Suha, both in Canada as doctoral students, respectively in law and environmental sciences, who grew thinking soldiers pounding on one's doors, arrests and the imprisonment of parents was a normal part of children's lives. The couple live in al-Bireh , Ramallah. She has received her Bachelors and Master's degrees in human rights and democracy from Bir Zeit University . Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, 'A rare moment of humanity in an Israeli military court,' Haaretz 27 June, 2015. Charlotte Kates, 'She Speaks the Truth':Palestinian leftist parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar arrested in early-morning Israeli raid Israel/Palestine,' Mondoweiss , April 2, 2015 'Israel arrests Palestinian lawmaker,' The Times of Israel 2 April 2015.

Khalida Jarrar ( ) is a Palestinian politician. She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). She was elected to the PLC in January 2006 as one of the PFLP's three deputies and has continued to serve as an elected representative ever since. She is also the Palestinian representative on the Council of Europe and is currently head of the Prisoners Committee of the PLC. She played a major role in Palestine's application to join the International Criminal Court . She has been arrested multiple times by the Israeli authorities. Several of these arrests resulted in administrative detention without any charges being brought. She has also been charged and convicted of "incitement and involvement in terror" by an Israeli military court, and sentenced to 15 months in prison, of which she served 6, before being released after an international campaign on her behalf. She is presently again being held in administrative detention , after being arrested by the Israelis at her home in Ramallah, in late October, 2019.

Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar ( ; born 9 February 1963) is a Palestinian politician. She is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). She was elected to the PLC in January 2006 as one of the PFLP's three deputies and has continued to serve as an elected representative ever since. She is also the Palestinian representative on the Council of Europe and is currently head of the Prisoners Committee of the PLC. She played a major role in Palestine's application to join the International Criminal Court . She has been arrested multiple times by the Israeli authorities. Several of these arrests resulted in administrative detention without any charges being brought. She has also been charged with "incitement and involvement in terror" by an Israeli military court. The incitement charge refers to public statements she made in 2012 in which she criticized the Israeli occupation of the West Bank . The court sentenced her to 15 months in prison, of which she served 6, before being released after an international campaign on her behalf. In March 2021, after having been held without charge since 2019, she was sentenced by an Israeli military court to two years in prison after a plea bargain, in which she declared herself guilty of membership in an organization, the PFLP, which Israel regards as a terrorist group. She has gone on record to state that her plea bargaining is due to the exhaustingly protracted nature of legal proceedings, lack of faith in Israel's military courts, and the threat, unless she admits guilt, of serving a 7-year sentence. She was released on 26 September 2021.