are made to disappear wholesale but in practice, it is done, one at a time. This is a Palestinian that Palestine cannot afford to lose. Please advise as to what can be done to secure the release of this noble voice.
Demand the immediate freedom of the Palestinian Journalist, Khalid Amayreh!
We Palestinian exiled journalists and peace activists are very disturbed by this news. We need an open, unequivocal condemnation of the PA actions against our colleagues. I cannot express enough the rage I feel. This truly courageous Palestinian journalist/ patriotic voice is being abused and tortured in an attempt to silence him.
We demand the immediate freedom of the Palestinian Journalist, Khalid Amayreh!, its about time that we recieve an explanation from Mr Naeem Toubasi theChair of the Palestinian Journalist Union, I have written to him many times requesting explanations regarding the detention of Palestinian journalists by the PA but I recieved no comment, I even wrote open letters online, I am sure he has been reading them, but unfortunately he has done nothing about it. Its about time that some organized body will handle such issues if the chair can’t defend his members or can’t offer them support. I call upon NUJ and IFJ to do something about this continued harassment of journalists.
Khaled Amayreh a été arrêté à Hébron par les contras d’Abbas
Par ISM 
La chaîne de télévision Al-Jazeera vient d’annoncer que le journaliste palestinien Khaled Al-Amayreh a été arrêté par les forces de la sécurité préventive d’Abbas, à Hébron, il y a deux jours. Les visites d’Amayreh en prison sont interdites.
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Ce que nous redoutions est arrivé. Khaled Amayreh, qui dénonce avec vigueur la collaboration de l’Autorité Palestinienne avec l’ennemi sioniste et ses rafles parmi les partisans du Hamas, a été arrêté par les milices d’Abbas.
Khaled Amayreh est une voix libre qu’on veut étouffer. Elle est la voix de tous les Palestiniens qu’on veut museler et contraindre. Nous ne pouvons la perdre.
Nous vous tiendrons informés des actions qui s’organiseront pour sa libération, ainsi que celle des 11.000 Palestiniens incarcérés dans les geôles sionistes.
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Good news received minutes ago. A call back from outstanding NY CPJ rep who took my request for help on behalf of Prof Khalid Amayreh who was held in detention. Minutes ago Muhamed called to inform us that Khalid had been released.
All details pending. Khalid may release a report on this latest experience with PA “security/justice” system.
Apparently journalists continue being arrested, detained, and tortured for speaking about ‘forbidden’ issues by PA goon squad who work indirectly for the occupiers.
Welcome back Khalid!
Ted said,
January 21, 2009 at 06:50
Democracy in Israel? NOT!
Democracy means everyone is represented int he country. Israel doesn’t allow Palestinians representation.
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Mary Rizzo said,
January 21, 2009 at 07:25
when i got this news i was plummeted into new grief. Let us hope first of all that they did not hurt him in any way, take away his material or insert any kind of monitoring device to his home. Believe it or not, I tried to send him an email and for the first time in years, it bounced back. This is getting me worried as well.
Khalid is a great man, noble, honest, brilliant, committed and in so many ways illuminated.
Let us hope that no harm comes to him or his loved ones now or ever, but let us also extend a network to protect him if we can. How? I don’t know… but we have to protect this man who risks life and liberty for his people.
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org said,
January 21, 2009 at 16:51
I will echo Mary’s sentiments and wishes. I got to interact with him a bit over email based on his outstanding reporting and analysis. He is the first journalist, Palestinian or otherwise, among the Muslims to have had the guts and the chutzpah to make the following insightful observation in one of his columns:
Begin excerpt
In comparison to the madman in the White House, Europe may look less bellicose, less confrontational and less unreasonable in its overall approach to contentious international issues. However, when the issue is the Palestinian plight, the US and Europe look very much like tweedledee and tweedledum.
In recent months and years, European leaders from Germany’s Merkel, to France’s Sarkozy, to Britain’s Brown and Italy’s Berlusconi were shamelessly pandering to Israeli savagery to the extent of embracing relentless Israeli criminality against the Palestinian people , including the ongoing genocidal ethnic cleansing in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip.
True, the European tone of speech often sounds less odious especially when compared with the unmitigated saber-rattling coming from Washington. But, in the final analysis, the outcome in both cases is similar. In fact, the US and Europe collaborate and even collude to effect the same unethical goals often by playing the old game of Mutt and Jeff (good cop and bad cop), with their persecuted victims, whether in Palestine, Sudan or Iran.
end excerpt
And I quoted Khalid in my letter to the Palestinian Intellectuals holding him up as an example:
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/06/letter-to-palestinian-intellectuals.html
Khalid Amayreh is a rare journalist, intellectual, and truth-teller among the Palestinians. This is why he is also the brunt of ‘hemlock’.
I won’t repeat Mary Rizzo’s eloquent wishes – they are also mine. One thinker and genuine patriot can change the affairs of any peoples!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org