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Press Release  October 27, 1997  Urgent! Please Forward and Help

Human Rights Activist and Journalist Arrested Following the
Publication of a Report on Torture

Khaled al-Amayreh, a journalist from the village of Dura near Hebron,
was arrested yesterday by agents of the Preventative Security Service.
This follows the publication yesterday of his report on the torture of
Hamas activists arrested over the past few months in an Israeli-Arab
newspaper, Saut al-Haq w'al-Huriya (The Voice of Truth and Freedom).
The newspaper is a weekly published by Islamicists in the Israeli Arab
city of Um al-Faham.

al-Amayreh is a member of the board of trustees of the Palestinian
Human Rights Monitoring Group in Jerusalem. He is 41 years old,
married, and the father of seven children. Before the publication of
the report yesterday, he contacted PHRMG Director Bassem Eid and
informed him that the article was due to be published. "He knew there
was a chance he would be arrested, and he wanted to know that we would
stand by him. Palestine needs more brave journalists like Khaled
willing to express their views even in the face of suppression."

Quotes from the report by Khaled al-Amayreh, based on prison
interviews:

"I was being tortured so severely, that I called out for God to have
mercy on me. The interrogator said that if God will come, we will
arrest him as well."
			 -Wa'el As'ad, prisoner
"They took off my clothes, and lay me out on the floor of the room.
They poured cold water on me, and started to beat me with a
broomstick. When it broke, they brought another one."
			-Iyad Imreish, prisoner

The PHRMG has sent letters protesting the arrest of al-Amayreh and
demanding his release. According to the Palestinian Press Law of 1995,
al-Amayreh should be free to pursue his profession with impunity.
However, he has been harassed by the security forces in the past. The
Minister of Information is responsible for the upholding of the Press
Law, and should therefore act quickly and publicly for the release of
al-Amayreh's release.

The PHRMG calls on the Palestinian and international human rights
community to come to the aid of Khaled al-Amayreh. He is a well known
journalist and political commentator who has never called for the use
of violence. Please send messages of protest to:

President Yasser Arafat		Attorney General Fayez Abu-Rahme
Palestinian Authority			Palestinian Authority
Al-Muntada				Yarmouk, Gaza
Gaza, PA					Attorney General's
Building
Fax: 972-7-822-365			Fax: 972-7-824-503

THE PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING GROUP
http://www.lebnet.com/phrmg
POB 19918 Jerusalem
972-2-6262463
fax: 972-2-6262378
eid4hr@aquanet.co.il
The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG)
POB 19918 =95 Jerusalem
tel: +972-2-6262463
fax: +972-2-6262378
eid4hr@aquanet.co.il
http://www.lebnet.com/phrmg