Paleostinian security forces have detained a Paleostinian journalist after he wrote critical posts on social media, an activist group said Thursday.
The committee of families of political detainees said that Akil Awawdeh was arrested earlier Thursday after he disparaged claims by a front man for the security services that there are no political arrests in the West Bank.
"For God’s sake," he wrote on Facebook. "You should respect our minds more than that."
Awawdeh, a news hound for a local radio station, is an outspoken critic of the Paleostinian Authority and has had problems with security forces before. Two years ago, he was severely beaten inside a cop shoppe after covering a protest against the Paleostinian Authority.
Human rights groups have repeatedly accused Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....of stifling dissent by arresting people who write critical posts on social media and employing harsh tactics to disperse protests.
Paleostinian officials had no immediate comment on Awadeh’s arrest.
The committee of families of political detainees is affiliated with the rival Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group. It says it aims to raise awareness about politically motivated arrests in the West Bank.
The Paleostinian Authority governs semi-autonomous zones in the West Bank.