We demand a major concert be held at Wembley to call for the release of Marwan Barghouthi

In 1988 the “Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute” concert staged at Wembley Stadium, London was broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million. The concert raised worldwide consciousness of the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and others by the South African apartheid government and built pressure on the Apartheid regime to release Nelson Mandela. We now demand a concert should be staged for Marwan Barghouthi, one of the most popular and renowned Palestinian leaders. He has spent a total of nearly two decades of his life in Israeli prisons. Marwan Barghouthi is a symbol of the Palestinian people’s decades-long struggle for freedom, a unifying figure and an advocate of justice for Palestinians based on international law.