Press release, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, 21 December 2009
"Israeli security first summoned Juma' for interrogation at midnight on 15 December. Hours later, they brought him back to his home. Juma' was handcuffed while soldiers searched his house for two hours as his wife and three young children looked on helplessly. The parting words of the soldiers were directed at his wife: she would only see her husband again through a prisoner exchange. Since then, Juma' has been detained, and banned from speaking to a lawyer or his family, with no explanation for his arrest......
Jamal Juma's is the most high profile arrest within an intensifying campaign of repression of grassroots mobilization against the wall and the settlements. Initially only arresting local activists from the villages affected by the wall, the Israeli authorities have recently begun to shift their attention to the detention of internationally-known human rights defenders such as Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh........"
"Israeli security first summoned Juma' for interrogation at midnight on 15 December. Hours later, they brought him back to his home. Juma' was handcuffed while soldiers searched his house for two hours as his wife and three young children looked on helplessly. The parting words of the soldiers were directed at his wife: she would only see her husband again through a prisoner exchange. Since then, Juma' has been detained, and banned from speaking to a lawyer or his family, with no explanation for his arrest......
Jamal Juma's is the most high profile arrest within an intensifying campaign of repression of grassroots mobilization against the wall and the settlements. Initially only arresting local activists from the villages affected by the wall, the Israeli authorities have recently begun to shift their attention to the detention of internationally-known human rights defenders such as Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh........"
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