Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor condemned the arrest of one of its trainees in Nablus city Bara al-Amer by the Palestinian Authority (PA) general intelligence apparatus on Sunday evening.
The Euro-Med announced that the detainee Amer who is an activist and university student started an open hunger strike immediately after his arrest in protest at being arrested based on no charges. He referred to the ill-treatment he had been subjected to in a previous detention at the hands of PA security officers of the same apparatus during investigation.
Over the past three days PA security forces rounded up seven students of an-Najah National University in Nablus on suspicion of their non-academic activities the Euro-Med highlighted.
Nawaf al-Amer the father of the detainee told Euro-Med that his son’s phone was closed for four hours then they suspected that he was arrested and called the PA intelligence forces who affirmed that.
He said that his son has been continuously subjected to threats by the PA intelligence apparatus’s official in charge of the file of the students of an-Najah National University in the city.
The Euro-Med held the PA responsible for anything wrong that might happen to Amer. The human rights organization also demanded his immediate release as the arrest of individuals based on no charge runs contrary to the PA’s obligations in consistence with the international law for human rights.
