Khalida Jarrar
| Khalida Jarrar | |
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| Palestinian Legislative Council member | |
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In office 2006 – present |
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| Born | 1963 |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Political party | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Spouse(s) | Ghassan Jarrar |
Khalida Jarrar (Arabic: خالدة جرار) 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 and held in administrative detention. Subsequently, charges were brought and her trial began on 15 April 2015. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison by an Israeli military tribunal and ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 shekels ($2,582) in December 2015. She was released from Israeli detention, after an international campaign on her behalf, in early June 2016 She has received her bachelor's and master's degrees in human rights and democracy from Birzeit University.
In 1985, after a five-year engagement, and when she had completed her master's 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 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 up 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.
Jarrar has been a human rights activist for many years. She has been active for a number of years in support of Palestinian prisoners, and she served as the director of Addameer, a Prisoners' Support and Human Rights NGO in Ramallah from 1993 to 2005 and remains a board member. She has also previously worked with UNRWA and has been prominently active in working with Palestinian women and advocating for women's rights.
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