Abbas's militias torture university professors

[ 05/08/2010 - 08:12 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The militias of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas have intensified their war on Palestinian university professors as they arrested more of them at the Najah National University in Nablus city.

According to local reports, the militia of Abbas rounded up Dr. Hassan Al-Safarini, the law professor in the University Tuesday rising number of the kidnapped professors to nine.

All of the professors were arbitrarily detained on allegations they are supporters of Hamas Movement.

Reliable sources in the ill-famed PA Junaid prison confirmed that the kidnapped professors were severely tortured since they were kidnapped few days ago, adding that Abbas gangs in the prison beat up engineering professor Dr. Wajih Abu Eideh, 53, on his feet continuously without any consideration for his age or academic status.

Abbas’s militia campaign against the academicians angered the university students, local community, and the education sector in Palestine, the sources added.

“The frenzied campaign of the Abbas militias against the Palestinian university professors is indeed a precise implementation of American and Israeli generals’ plans in the West Bank but carried out with Palestinian hands”, a number of Palestinian academics and political analysts confirm.

They added, “All those actions of the Abbas militias against the Palestinian public in the West Bank pours in Israel’s interests, and engraves a black spot in the records of the Fatah-controlled authority in Ramallah”.

In the same context, the PA intelligence department in Nablus city threatened to take severe measures against Palestinian female citizen Nada Al-Jayyosi if she refused to come to the intelligence headquarters for interrogation. Al-Jayyosi’s husband, Majid Hassan, has been detained in Israeli jails for 33 months.

In an interview with the PIC, Jayyosi explained that she was summoned by the intelligence for interrogation, but she was able to receive assurances from Majid Faraj, the head of the apparatus, not to be summoned again and to forget about the summons.

“I am a mother of nine children and they (Abbas militias) know that my husband is still in Israeli jails, so I can’t leave my kids alone because I am the only bread-winner for them”, Jayyosi explained.

She added, “After I received the summons, I contacted Sheikh Saleh Arory who advised me not to heed the summons based on the agreement with Faraj”.

She continued, “I was surprised when officers of the apparatus telephoned me and threatened to send a female police force to arrest me if I don’t respond, but I refused their threats based on Faraj’s promise”.

“I wonder how my children would differentiate between the scene of Abbas militias attempting to storm our home and arrest their mother in front of their eyes, and that of the Israeli occupation forces who stormed the house and arrested their father in front of them 33 months ago?”, she said.

Palestinian media forum slams Abbas's militias for kidnapping journalist

[ 04/08/2010 - 02:48 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Palestinian media forum strongly denounced Mahmoud Abbas's security militias in Nablus for kidnapping journalist Ahmed Al-Beitawi without legal grounds.

The forum stated Wednesday that Beitawi is the fourth journalist who is locked up in the Palestinian Authority's jails.

It affirmed that it is following up the deterioration of freedoms and the mouth-muzzling policy pursued against journalists and media institutions in the West Bank, describing the suppression of freedoms there as a black spot in the history of the Palestinian people.

The media center demanded the immediate release of the four journalists from West Bank jails and called on Salam Fayyad, the illegitimate premeir in Ramallah, to instruct the security apparatuses to stop interfering in the media work.

The center also appealed to the union of Arab journalists, the international union of journalists, and journalists without borders to urgently intervene to get all journalists released from West Bank jails.

For their part, the Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank deplored what they described as the ferocious campaigns waged by Abbas's militias against citizens, students, professors and respectable women in Nablus.

They said in a statement on Tuesday that Abbas's militias trampled on the dignity of West Bank citizens and abandoned the Palestinian people's values and ethics.

The lawmakers pointed out that Abbas's militias withdrew the IDs of nine women working for Al-Tadamon charity and summon them for interrogation on a daily basis.

The wife of prisoner Ziyad Marish is also summoned everyday, while her husband is struggling with death as a result of his exposure to daily excruciating torture in Abbas's jails and her young girl is in hospital suffering from serious heart problems, the statement said.

Another woman called Hanin Darwaza, who was kidnapped along with her husband and son by Abbas's militias, is still in hospital after she was maltreated during interrogation.

Many citizens and lecturers working for Al-Najah university were also kidnapped days ago in Nablus and locked up in West Bank jails.

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