[Ppnews] PA arrests 60 political detainees including 35 former prisoners
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Wed Sep 19 22:48:05 EDT 2012
Addameer: PA arrests 60 political detainees including 35
former prisoners
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by samidoun <http://samidoun.ca/?author=1>
http://samidoun.ca/2012/09/addameer-pa-arrests-60-political-detainees-including-35-former-prisoners/
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association considers the
campaign of political arrests launched by the Palestinian Authority
security apparatus in the occupied West Bank since Tuesday, September 9,
2012 to be deeply dangerous.
Addameer has documented that the Preventive Security and General
Intelligence are waging a campaign of arrests in several provinces in
the West Bank and over 60 Palestinians, including released prisoners,
writers and journalists, and youth activists, have been imprisoned.
Among the detainees are 35 liberated prisoners who spent long years
behind bars in Israeli jails, some of whom participated in the recent
prisoner hunger strikes and some who have been released for only a few
months. One of the most prominent arrestees is former prisoner,
researcher and legal specialist in prisoners affairs', the director of
the Ahrar Centre, Fuad al-Khuffash. Another is journalist Walid Khaled,
who was released just two weeks ago from Israeli prisons after more than
two years spent in administrative detention, a substantial amount of
that in solitary confinement. He was one of the prisoners who
participated in the mass 28-day hunger strike and also one of the 19
prisoners subject to the isolation policy of the Israeli Prison Service.
According to the families of some of the detainees, these arrests come
following the arrests of former detainees for interrogation by the
General Intelligence and Preventive Security almost immediately upon
their release from Israeli jails.
The arrests were distributed geographically as follows: 11 detainees
from Qalqilya; Tulkarem, 16 detainees; Nablus, 11 detaines; Salfit, 14
detainees; Hebron, 5 detainees; and one detainee from Jenin and Ramallah
each.
The Addameer Foundation considers that this arrests come as a
culmination of the continuous neglect by the Palestinian Authority in
the West Bank and Gaza of achieving any true reconciliation. It is clear
that they do not act in the best interests of the Palestinian people and
are in fact harmful, especially on the issue of Palestinian prisoners in
Israeli jails, where the claims of the Palestinian Authority to call for
the release of prisoners and detainees from the prisons of the
occupation are belied when the Palestinian Authority security apparatus
arrests them after their release.
Addameer also confirms that these arrests are highly political in nature
and threaten the security and peace of the Palestinian population. They
do not serve to protect the Palestinian cause, address Israeli crimes
against our people, our land and our holy places. Quite the contrary
they deepen the internal Palestinian tensions and increase them to the
stage where the occupation is the first and last beneficiary. Addameer
demands the following from the Palestinian Authority:
First, the immediate release of all detainees due to these arrests which
violate the letter and the spirit of the Palestinian Basic Law and the
Code of Criminal Procedure, charters and human rights conventions.
Second, Addameer demands of the Palestinian Authority to stop the
practice of political arrests and stop denying their responsibility for
political arrests.
Third, the need to compel the security services and law enforcement
officials to respect the people and their rights, to end the practice of
political repression and suppression of speech that undermine our
freedoms and collective and individual dignity.
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