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Award-winning Palestinian journalist forced into hiding
2011-08-07
There are places where journalists pay a high price for speaking truth to power.
PA's Preventative Security Force in W. Bank arrest Majdoleen Hassouneh's brothers in attempt to put pressure on her to turn herself in. Paleostinian journalists in Nablus told The Jerusalem Post that Hassouneh was wanted by the PA security forces for covering a sit-in strike organized by families of Paleostinians held in Paleostinian jails in the West Bank.

Hassouneh's friends and colleagues have launched a Facebook campaign in solidarity with her and in protest against the PA government's measures against Paleostinian journalists and freedom of the media.

One journalist pointed out that he and his colleagues have come under heavy pressure from the PA security forces in the West Bank to refrain from reporting about stories that could embarrass the PA leadership. Last year, two journalists from Bethlehem were tossed in the clink by PA security agencies -- one for reporting about the dispute between PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
 and Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, and the second for allegedly ridiculing the PA president on his Facebook page.
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