A Palestinian Authority (PA) court in Tulkarem on Sunday extended the detention of journalist Sami as-Sa’iee for 15 days at the behest of the prosecutor who accused him of sectarian incitement.
His wife Amani al-Jundob said the court judge approved a request submitted by the prosecutor to extend the detention of Sa’iee in order to complete investigations.
Jundob added that the prosecutor accused her husband of stirring up sectarian feuds after the PA intelligence summoned him last Thursday and ordered his arrest pointing out that the intelligence had extended his detention twice before.
She said that her husband works as a correspondent for al-Fajer satellite channel in Tulkarem and was already acquitted by a PA court years ago of the same charge after 25 days in detention.
He also said that her husband was arrested by the PA intelligence two and a half months after his release from an Israeli jail.
For its part the Palestinian Media Assembly denounced the PA security authorities for detaining journalist Sa’iee with no guilt and described his arrest as “another unjustified violation of press freedoms.”
