BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Wave of ‘political’ West Bank arrests
Posted by walker on October 22nd, 2008
Human rights campaigners say the majority of Hamas detainees in the West Bank have no relationship to the military branch of the organisation or its fundraising activities.
"In the last two months we have noticed a large-scale campaign in the West Bank to prosecute persons said to be from the Hamas movement," says Shawan Jabarin of the Palestinian human rights organisation al-Haq.
"It happens on a daily basis," he adds, saying that the figure of about 270 political detainees believed to be held in the the West Bank outstrips the figure in Gaza, which stands at 80.
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Wave of ‘political’ West Bank arrests.
