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On the evening of Friday 26th January 2018, Inminds human rights group undertook a guerilla projection on the walls of the Palace of Westminster, to highlight the plight of Palestinian child prisoners in Israel dungeons.

Over a dozen slides depicting facts and figures about Palestinian child prisoners held by Israel, including recently abducted children, were projected onto the British parliament.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said "In the last 12 months 1,467 Palestinian children were caged by Israel, that's one child taken from their family every 6 hours. To put a face to this shocking statistic we chose 4 Palestinian child prisoners - two girls and two boys - and projected their images on to the seat of the British government. Their stories are the stories of every Palestinian child; of living under military occupation; of illegal abduction by occupation forces; of being shackled and blindfolded whilst being abused by Israeli soldiers (40% of children taken in Jerusalem were found to have been sexually abused by the soldiers); of torture during interrogation to coerce confessions (75% of the children are physically tortured); of being processed by a rubber-stamp conveyor belt military court which finds 99.7% of all Palestinian children guilty of whatever charge the military concocts; of being handed down outrageous sentences like up to 20 years for throwing a stone; to imprisonment in 1m x 3m cages not fit for animals. We hope the British government will take notice and think twice before providing Israel the weapons that sustain this illegal occupation."

The projection was interrupted when two police vans pulled up with a dozen policemen bursting out and surrounding us. They initially invoked anti-terror legislation when we refused to share our details with them, but they backed down when we pointed out how ridiculous that sounded when the only weapons we had was a projector and a camera. They did however insist on a private viewing of our projection before letting us go, we were happy to oblige and provided a running commentary for each slide giving the background details. For some reason they kept on rushing us and eventually stopped us before we got to the end. They left us a souvenir in the form of a Stop & Search record sheet.

The group is recognized for projection stunt jobs in London. Last year as part of a global campaign against 800 days of Saudi genocidal bombing of Yemen, Inminds human rights group along with the Islamic Human Rights Commission carried out a guerilla projection on the Saudi embassy in London.