Monday, June 1, 2009

PA arrests Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub


The People's Voice

from: Khalid Amayreh

"Al-Khalil, West Bank:

The Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatus on Monday arrested Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub.

Rajoub, a correspondent of al-Jazeera.net in occupied Palestine, was summoned by telephone to the offices of the PA "military intelligence" in Hebron where he was arrested.

PA officials refused to say why Rajoub was arrested. However it is widely believed that the arrest was in connection with a report he wrote on the assassination by Israeli troops last week of Abdul Majid Dudeen, a prominent resistance fighter affiliated with Hamas military wing, the Izzedin al Qassam Brigades......"

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