Hundreds of Palestinian students from the occupied West Bank have been jailed for their non-violent political activism. Israel’s use of controversial military courts to sentence students and activists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) has once again come under focus after Birzeit University’s three students were sent to prison last week. Ruba Assi, Shatha Taweel and Lyan Kayed — all girls in their early 20s — have been sentenced to ...