The Human Rights Watch has called on Israel to immediately end its arbitrary detention of Palestinians protesting the separation barrier in the occupied West Bank.
Israel has detained Palestinians who advocate non-violent protests against the construction of a 723 km (454 miles) steel and concrete wall.
"The Israeli government should immediately order an end to ongoing harassment of Palestinians who peacefully protest the separation barrier," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
"The Israeli authorities are effectively banning peaceful expression of political speech by bringing spurious charges against demonstrators, plus detaining children and adults without basic due process protections," she added.
"Israel's security concerns do not justify detaining or prosecuting peaceful Palestinian activists," Whitson said.
Israeli forces have detained scores of Palestinians, including children, involved in protests against the wall.
According to the Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer, 35 residents of the West Bank village of Bil'in have been arrested since June 2009, most during nighttime raids. 113 others have been arrested from the neighboring village of Ni'ilin in the last 18 months.
Israeli forces have also repeatedly raided the West Bank offices of organizations involved in non-violent advocacy against the separation barrier.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120141§ionid=351020202.
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