Mr. Issa Amro, co-founder of the grassroots group Youth Against Settlements, is a Palestinian activist in Hebron, West Bank. In 2010, he was declared "human rights defender of the year in Palestine" by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Mr. Amro subsequently ran into some legal trouble, facing charges from the Israeli military court. In May 2017, Bernie Sanders along with three U.S. Senators and 32 Congressmen wrote to then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging Israeli authorities to reconsider the charges. Eventually, Mr. Amro was released on bail. In September 2017, Mr. Amro was arrested by the Palestinian Authority on charges of violating the new “electronic crimes” law. In March 2019, Amnesty International demanded that the Palestinian authorities drop all charges against him. One week later, Mr. Amro was released on bail.