Schockierend FP 7. July 2012

HAARETZ Published Jun.25, 2012

Palestinian Authority arrests more than 100 following death of Jenin governor
By Amira Hass

Many of the detainees have no connection to the shots fired at the home of Kadura Musa; families of prisoners report torture, illegal detention policies.

"Palestinian journalists who have made a nice living by writing about the heroism of our camp and from interviewing our fighters aren’t writing about the arrests or at least do not put our version up against the official version," camp resident Abu Anton said bitterly.

Leading the operation is Ibrahim Ramadan, a preventative security officer from the Dheisheh refugee camp, who is accompanied by a legal unit.Extensions of detention are indeed carried out according to Palestinian law, every 15 days.

The number of those arrested is somewhere between 120 and 150. Little by little, some of those detained are being released, either because it turned out that they were not connected to any wrongdoing or because they handed their weapons in to the authorities. The reports of their experiences during the weeks in which they were unable to meet with attorneys (or family members) match the rumors and affidavits to ICHR and Al Haq, a non-governmental Palestinian human rights organization. Continue reading→