Today is the 'Day of the Imprisoned Writer' - Pen International, which has been celebrating every year since November 7, to identify and support writers who have resisted against fundamental human rights oppression, who have stood against all conspiracy to suppress freedom of expression. . . Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet & photographer, was born in Reineh, Israel. An Israeli court has sentenced Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour to five months in prison for "inciting violence" in a poem she posted on social media, titled 'Resist, my people resist them.' For more than two and a half years she has been held house prison under strict surveillance., without internet & computer. . . Tatour's lawyer, Gaby Lasky, told Al Jazeera they would appeal the ruling and sentence, "I don't think that writing a poem, even if it's against the government is a crime," Lasky said. . . "I wasn't expecting justice to be done. The case was political from the start because I am Palestinian and support freedom of speech," Tatour told reporters at the Nazareth after shes been released from imprisonment. 'Silence and criminalize activists', has been a preferable tool for Govt to stop anti-establishment criticism. It just confirms the words of Wole Soyinka, the first African Nobel laureate, Nigerian playwright & poet," The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism." . . Resist, my rebellious people. Write me as prose on the agarwood; My remains have you as a response. Resist, my people, resist them. Resist, my people, resist them. Before my body was torn to pieces How naïve was I! I would want to fly, Fall love with poetry, Devote myself to love, No longer am I naïve. They stole my very shadow, Wiped away the innocence of childhood, Killed my white dove, And despite myself Hatred welled up inside me. I became like one on the verge of death – Blue – Like the anger of the waves. I broken my silence, Only for bitterness to build a settlement in my heart! They saw me explode! I hope to light the world a flame! . . . #dayofimprisonedwriter #protestpoetry #dareentatour #womenpoets #poetryforresistance #dayoftheimprisonedwriter https://www.instagram.com/p/B46u8SCjtkZB2sHztMTlHq9s254hFB99Fs1fEc0/?igshid=o8d41mhv9ity