The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK revealed yesterday that Palestinian Authority security services surrounded the Palestinian Legislative Council’s headquarters in Ramallah and tried to arrest MP Najat Abu Bakr.
In a statement, the organisation said that Abu Bakr and a number of Palestinian figures are being targeted for showing solidarity with the teachers’ strike.
It called on members of the Legislative Council to respond to all attempts that aim to suppress freedom of opinion and expression and any violations of the laws.
It warned of “the escalation in repression of freedom of opinion and expression in the areas governed by the Palestinian Authority on the backdrop of their solidarity with the teachers’ strike.”
It has also called on the Palestinian Authority’s security apparatus to stop prosecuting Abu Bakr and other Palestinians.
Abu Bakr, an elected Fatah member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, revealed in remarks on Wednesday that the Attorney General has formally summoned her for interrogation in Ramallah.
Earlier, she accused Minister of Local Government Hussein Al-A’raj, who is closely associated with President Mahmoud Abbas, of corruption, claiming he had received a sum of 800,000 Israeli shekels ($205,331) from the public budget to invest in private water wells.
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