“The Palestinian Authority security forces on Tuesday forcibly broke up a press conference held at the headquarters of the Popular Alliance for Change in Ramallah, which calls for reform of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Eyewitnesses and journalists told The New Arab that the security forces brandished their weapons and carried big sticks while expelling the participants and prevented journalists from documenting the event, as well as detained a number of them.
Jihad Barakat, a Ramallah-based journalist complained that the security forces violated their rights and dealt with them by threatening, saying, "They took my national identity and expelled me out the place … later, they returned it to me and asked me to leave the area to avoid the arrest.
Following the storming, the organisers of the conference, a coalition of Palestinian political and civil society activists, tried to hold the conference out of the headquarters, but the security forces prevented them too.“
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Eyewitnesses and journalists told The New Arab that the security forces brandished their weapons and carried big sticks while expelling the participants and prevented journalists from documenting the event, as well as detained a number of them.
Jihad Barakat, a Ramallah-based journalist complained that the security forces violated their rights and dealt with them by threatening, saying, "They took my national identity and expelled me out the place … later, they returned it to me and asked me to leave the area to avoid the arrest.
Following the storming, the organisers of the conference, a coalition of Palestinian political and civil society activists, tried to hold the conference out of the headquarters, but the security forces prevented them too.“
PA forces crackdown on 'Popular Conference' in Ramallah
The Palestinian Authority security forces on Tuesday forcibly broke up a press conference held at the headquarters of the Popular Alliance for Change in Ramallah, which calls for reform of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
