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11/19/2009 03:36:00 PM Posted by Editor Publisher Hiyam Noir
Abbas Militia in Action19 November, 2009
Palestinian Authority (PA) police have arrested Walid Suleiman, a Hebron-based journalist on suspicion of “inciting against the PA” and “undermining vital Palestinian interests.”
His family said the Preventive Security Force (PSF) summoned Suleiman for what was to be a “brief interrogation” on his activities, including public lectures on Islam and current affairs.
However, upon his arrival at the PSF headquarters in downtown Hebron, Suleiman was arrested until “a further notice.”
Suleiman had been arrested twice by the PA security apparatus on concocted charges pertaining to his outspoken criticisms of PA conduct.
A few years ago, the PA closed down the offices of the bimonthly paper, the Hebron Times, which Suleiman owned and edited.
The tabloid, now published in electronic form, can be accessed through the following link: http://hebrontimes.com/index.
The draconian measure was part of the PA clampdown on free press as demanded by the Bush administration.
The PA security apparatus lately resumed a campaign against the non-conformist press, arresting three journalists working for the Gaza-based al-Aqsa Television.
Suleiman, 46, had been a globe-trotter who toured more than 100 countries on foot.
Suleiman’s brother, the Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh, described the arrest as “a stupid measure aimed at muzzling freedom of speech and expression.”
“I think the PA is still living in the 1950s and 1960s. It seems they haven’t heard of the internet and the global village.”
Khalid Amayreh himself had been detained and ill-treated by the PA for criticizing the PA.
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