RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Palestinian media forum strongly denounced Mahmoud Abbas’s security militias in Nablus for kidnapping journalist Ahmed Al-Beitawi without legal grounds.
The forum stated Wednesday that Beitawi is the fourth journalist who is locked up in the Palestinian Authority’s jails.
It affirmed that it is following up the deterioration of freedoms and the mouth-muzzling policy pursued against journalists and media institutions in the West Bank describing the suppression of freedoms there as a black spot in the history of the Palestinian people.
The media center demanded the immediate release of the four journalists from West Bank jails and called on Salam Fayyad the illegitimate premeir in Ramallah to instruct the security apparatuses to stop interfering in the media work.
The center also appealed to the union of Arab journalists the international union of journalists and journalists without borders to urgently intervene to get all journalists released from West Bank jails.
For their part the Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank deplored what they described as the ferocious campaigns waged by Abbas’s militias against citizens students professors and respectable women in Nablus.
They said in a statement on Tuesday that Abbas’s militias trampled on the dignity of West Bank citizens and abandoned the Palestinian people’s values and ethics.
The lawmakers pointed out that Abbas’s militias withdrew the IDs of nine women working for Al-Tadamon charity and summon them for interrogation on a daily basis.
The wife of prisoner Ziyad Marish is also summoned everyday while her husband is struggling with death as a result of his exposure to daily excruciating torture in Abbas’s jails and her young girl is in hospital suffering from serious heart problems the statement said.
Another woman called Hanin Darwaza who was kidnapped along with her husband and son by Abbas’s militias is still in hospital after she was maltreated during interrogation.
Many citizens and lecturers working for Al-Najah university were also kidnapped days ago in Nablus and locked up in West Bank jails.
