The Case of Samar Alami

In one of the cells of the high-security Holloway prison in North London, Samar Alami waits for eleven years to pass, having already spent nine years of her life there. She was barely 31 when British courts sentenced her and her friend, Jawad Botmeh, for involvement in the 1994 bombing in London of the Israeli embassy and the Balfour House, both of which injured nineteen people. Today Samar is 39 years old. Like Jawad, she graduated from a British university. They are both accused of affiliation with a small, radical group headquartered in Britain, which planned to foil the Middle East peace process. Both Samar and Jawad have strongly refuted this accusation.