Palestinian Authority security forces have detained at least four West Bank students over the past six months, apparently for their affiliation with Hamas or political criticism.
“Palestinians should be able to express critical political opinions without being arrested or beaten”
On April 2015, Palestinian security officers arrested a representative of students at Birzeit University in Ramallah, the officers beat him and held him for about 24 hours, he said. Besides, they arrested and detained or summoned for interrogation 25 students from other universities. Musab Zaloum, a student who represented Hamas told Human Rights. He said he has not been summoned or detained, but has been avoiding the main campus entrance and has not been sleeping in his home. These latest cases follow the November 2014 arrest a journalism student, for critical postings about Palestinian Authority forces on Facebook and the January 2015 arrest of Bara al-Qadi, a media student at Birzeit University, for criticism of a Palestinian Authority official on Facebook
In an interview with Human Rights Watch on May, the spokesman for Palestinian Authority Security Services acknowledged that there had been arrests but refused to indicate how many people had been held or to confirm specific cases. He denied that there was any political motivation.
“We never arrest people for their speech or for their political affiliations,” he said. “These people have been arrested for the criminal charge of incitement of sectarian violence and other criminal charges.”
The right to free expression is totally violated and I think it's shameful that in the middle of XXI century, there're countries still doing these types of Human rights infringements. Every person has the right to express one's ideas and opinions freely through speech, writing and other forms of communication but without deliberately.
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