Palestinian Authority imposing ‘police state’ in West Bank

‘The Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank is intensifying its crackdown on Palestinians exercising their rights to free speech.
Meanwhile politicians and activists in France are calling on their government to act on behalf of a Palestinian-French human rights defender arrested by Israel.
“Since the start of 2017, Palestinian authorities in the West Bank have carried out scores of attacks against journalists and activists, subjecting them to arbitrary arrests, violent interrogations, confiscation of equipment, physical assaults and bans on reporting,” Amnesty International said this week.
Amnesty also criticizes abuses by Hamas authorities in Gaza.
According to Muhannad Karajah, a lawyer with the prisoners rights group Addameer who represents many of the detained journalists in the West Bank, the situation is the worst it has been in a decade.’
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