Professor Sami Adwan
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Were you involved in an organization to resist the Occupation?
I was an activist and leader in Fatah in various locations in the Hebron area. I was directly or indirectly responsible for the student movement, overseeing the professional elections that used to be held. I was an election coordinator, and we used to focus on developing Fatah's position and helping it to win more seats. We were very successful in some locations and not as successful in others. I was more active on the ideological side, in trying to raise awareness among students, as well as among unions, among professionals such as pharmacists and lawyers, and among other organizations, sports committees, etc. At the time, was Fatah considered a terrorist organization? Of course in 1992 Fatah was regarded as an opposition movement, a so-called "terrorist movement," and membership was prohibited. In the seventies and eighties, if they knew that you had even talked to a member or had been seen with one of them, you would be imprisoned.