A delegation from the Palestinian Human Rights Association SHAHID handed over a memorandum to the European Union mission to the Palestinian Authority regarding the arbitrary detention of Sheikh Raed Salah the leader of Islamic Movement in 1948 Occupied Palestine.
The memo was delivered to the EU office in Beirut. The memo explained that the reasons for the Israeli arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah were political par excellence and were in no way legal.
The memo highlighted the circumstances of Sheikh Salah’s detention which ran contrary to human and legal rights especially the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It explained that the Sheikh is being held in a toilet and not an ordinary cell and has cameras monitoring him around the clock.
The memo recalls that Sheikh Salah is not new as he was arrested several times before on the same charges.
The memo indicates that Sheikh Salah is not the only one to be subjected to this repressive treatment but rather this includes any Palestinian who is active in defending Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem adding that activists are subjected to detention whether children women or adults and sometimes even murder.
The memo called on the EU in the Occupied Territories to follow up the circumstances of the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah stressing the need to protest his inhumane incarceration conditions.
The memo falls in line with an international legal campaign to defend Sheikh Raed Salah under the title: “Freedom of belief is not a crime freedom for Sheikh Raed Salah.”
