PA daily reports on street in France named after terrorist Marwan Barghouti
“A street in the city of Valenton was named after Marwan Barghouti yesterday [Sept. 27, 2014] as part of the activities in France of the International Campaign for the Freedom of Marwan Barghouti and [all Palestinian] Prisoners in the Occupation Prisons. A center named after Nelson Mandela was inaugurated on this street as well. [The event] was attended by attorney and Chairman of the International Campaign Fadwa Barghouti, Chairman of the International Campaign in South Africa and President of the Ahmad Kathrada Foundation, African leader Nishan Bolton and the mayor of the city. In the past, this city granted the leader Barghouti honorary citizenship, along with nearly 50 other French cities that have done so over the last few years.”
Note: Marwan Barghouti - serving five life sentences for orchestrating terror attacks against Israeli civilians. When arrested in 2002, he headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected member of the Palestinian Authority parliament.
Nelson Mandela - A South African revolutionary against apartheid who spent 27 years in prison for organizing acts of sabotage against the apartheid government. After an international campaign for his release, Mandela was freed in 1990. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and became South Africa's first black president a year later.
Note: Marwan Barghouti - serving five life sentences for orchestrating terror attacks against Israeli civilians. When arrested in 2002, he headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected member of the Palestinian Authority parliament.
Nelson Mandela - A South African revolutionary against apartheid who spent 27 years in prison for organizing acts of sabotage against the apartheid government. After an international campaign for his release, Mandela was freed in 1990. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and became South Africa's first black president a year later.