PIC
[ 18/12/2009 - 05:01 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- IOF troops stopped Palestinian celebrating the end of activities relating to "Jerusalem, the Capital of Arabic Culture 2009", which was planned at Bab al-Amoud, one of the main gates of Jerusalem's old city on Thursday evening.
The IOF arrested twelve people including foreign activists and assaulted others.
PIC's correspondent said that a large number of Israeli occupation police forcefully stopped a scouts' march which was supposed to march the in the streets of the old city to mark the end of celebrations of Jerusalem as the capital of Arabic culture for the year 2009.
The Jerusalem centre for social and economic rights condemned, in a statement on Thursday, the barring of celebrations and the use of force disperse participants in the celebrations, as well as the arrest of 12 citizens and foreign sympathisers.
The centre also stressed that barring such activities is an infrengment on the civil and social rights of the people and individuals and their rights to participate in culture and arts activities.
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