‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Yuval Abraham
deadline.comHamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been freed after being detained and beaten, according to the documentary’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham.Hamdan Ballal is free and is about to go home to his familyAfter being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.
Abraham claimed in a post to X today that his co-director was “handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base”. In an earlier post the director said he spoke to Ballal’s lawyer Leah Tsemel who conveyed the report of him being beaten by authorities.
The release today followed growing concerns about Ballal’s well-being and whereabouts after Abraham reported on Monday that the director had been attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers outside his West Bank village home and then arrested by soldiers.
His detention sparked outcry from the international and U.S. film community. Filmmakers Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Ezra Edelman, Christine Vachon and Maite Alberdi were among some 3,700 signatories of a petition calling for Ballal’s immediate release and safety.
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