{"id":36111,"date":"2026-05-14T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/eric-cantona-supports-the-campaign-for-imprisoned-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:15:32","slug":"eric-cantona-supports-the-campaign-for-imprisoned-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/eric-cantona-supports-the-campaign-for-imprisoned-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Cantona supports the campaign for imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_a8cef327b4cadd813dd3827d23564587.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Former French footballer and actor Eric Cantona supported a soccer jersey campaign in support of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>Cantona posted a photo on Instagram of himself wearing a shirt inspired by the 2002 Palestinian national team shirt, with the slogan &#8220;Free Marwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying statement said Israel imprisoned Barghouti in 2002 while he was serving as an MP, adding that he was convicted by a court he did not recognize, after what international legal experts described as a flawed and illegal trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like Nelson Mandela, his struggle for freedom has become a symbol of the struggle of an entire nation,&#8221; the statement said, describing Barghouti as &#8220;a passionate soccer fan who believes in the power of sports to unite the people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The post added that Barghouti will miss another FIFA World Cup with his children this year, marking the seventh tournament since his imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his honour, we have designed a new &#8216;Free Marwan&#8217; football shirt, inspired by the Palestinian national team&#8217;s shirt from 2002, the same year he was captured,&#8221; it said. statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than a shirt, it is a reminder of what football really stands for: unity, justice, freedom, integrity, endurance and the refusal to give up,&#8221; said Cantona.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former French footballer and actor Eric Cantona supported a soccer jersey campaign in support of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, reports Anadolu. Cantona posted a photo on Instagram of himself wearing a shirt inspired by the 2002 Palestinian national team shirt, with the slogan &#8220;Free Marwan.&#8221; The accompanying statement said Israel imprisoned Barghouti in 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":4,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36113,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111\/revisions\/36113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}