Via Assad Abdi -- a journalist arreste by IDF: (Assad forgive me, I misplaced your info -- please resend?) Today at 9:23am Palestinian journalist arrested by IDF. Ahmad al-Rai, Palestinian journalist and former political prisoner, was arrested in a flying checkpoint by Isreali occupation forces outside Qalqilya (West Bank) on Sunday evening, 7 December. The hastily erected checkpoint was reportedly disassembled immediately after the seizure of al-Rai by occupation soldiers. Al-Rai, 54, is a well-known community leader and former political prisoner who has spent almost 10 years in Israeli jails. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network notes that the arrest of al-Rai is part of an ongoing policy by Israeli occupation forces of targeting former prisoners and respected community leaders for arrest, incarceration and long-term detention as a means of demoralizing the Palestinian people and attempting to silence voices that insist on the rights of the Palestinian people. However, this policy has not achieved its objectives over decades of use by the occupation and will not achieve its goal today. samidoun.ca/2014/12/palestinian-journalist-and-former-prisoner-ahmad-al-rai-arrested-in-qalqilya/
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:00:14 +0000
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