LONDON (PIC)– The Palestine Solidarity Campaign in a press release issued Wednesday welcomed the news of Alan Johnston’s release after 114 days in captivity.
“We would like to thank everybody for their tireless efforts all the Palestinian organisations including Hamas the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and all those everywhere who worked for his release” the statement read.
Betty Hunter General Secretary of the PSC said: “We want to send our best wishes to Alan Johnston and his family after what has been an excruciating ordeal for all.”
Finally the PSC expressed hope to see “the release of the thousand(s) of Palestinian political prisoners including dozens of democratically elected parliamentarians still in Israeli jail.”
