Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian journalist

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Palestinian journalist Mohammed Basharat from his home in village of Tamun, Tobas province, on Sunday, sources in the village told the PIC reporter.They said that the IOF soldiers broke into Basharat’s home and wreaked havoc in it before taking him away.Basharat, 25, was kidnapped more than once at the hands of the Ramallah security authorities and was severely tortured.The Ahrar center for prisoners studies and human rights condemned the IOF detention of Basharat, recalling that the IOF had launched a large-scale arrest campaign in lines of Palestinian journalists and rights activists late last month including the center’s director Fuad Al-Khuffash.It called on human rights groups and the world community to check the IOF wave of arrests that did not spare any sector in the Palestinian community.The center pointed out that Basharat was concerned with prisoners affairs, and the Israeli occupation authority was interested in silencing anyone championing prisoners’ rights or exposing the IOF atrocities against them./129