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WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Palestinian Authority’s security militias kidnapped 20 Palestinian citizens thought to be affiliated with Hamas Movement in different West Bank areas, according to local sources on Sunday. Among the detainees was a Palestinian businessman called Basem Thabet who was kidnapped again after his release for two days. His family says PA intelligence officers demand him to pay $50,000 for his freedom. The militias also kidnapped another businessman called Idris Hajja from Bir Nabala town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, after they released him for also two days. 500,000 shekels were taken from him when he was detained the first time last May. For their part, the PA military courts issued in absentia imprisonment sentences against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The detainees are Shaker Dar Saleem, Hussein Al-Ajrab, Ra’ed Hamed and Abdul Basset Ma’tan and all of them were sentenced to three years in jail. One Palestinian named Mohamed Abdulrahman was reportedly detained on Saturday in Qalqiliya city five days after his release from Israeli jails on a charge of his affiliation with the Islamic Jihad Movement. In another context, the forum of Palestinian journalists demanded the immediate release of all journalists and media workers from PA jails in the West Bank, noting that reporter of Shahab news agency Abdulhalim Abu Arafa is still being exposed to torture by PA intelligence officers. In a press release, the forum said that the persistent arrest of journalists in the West Bank reflects a black future for freedoms, especially with regard to the media, affirming that there is no one day going by without reporting the detention and prosecution of a journalist. |
20 Palestinians kidnapped by PA security militias in West Bank.

November 21, 2010 

































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