The Committee to Support Journalists said today, Tuesday, that 25 journalists are still languishing in the occupation prisons, for carrying out their professional and journalistic duty and documenting the crimes of the occupation.
In a statement, the committee condemned the issuance by the Israeli Occupation Court of the ruling against journalist Tamer Barghouti from the town of Kober in Ramallah, to 10 months in prison, in addition to a fine of 2000 shekels.
It indicated that the occupation forces arrested the journalist Al-Barghouti, on December 10, 2020, while covering an event in front of the gate of "Ofer" prison, and his trial was postponed six times, until yesterday, Monday, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
The committee indicated that after the issuance of a ruling against the Barghouti journalist prisoner, the number of journalists arrested with actual sentences increased to (9) journalists, and they are the writer Walid Daqqa, Mahmoud Issa, Ahmed Al Saifi, Mundhir Khalaf, Maflih Basem Al-Khandaqji, Ahmed Al-Arbeed, Yasser Manna, Mujahid Mardawi and Tamer Barghouti.
She explained that the occupation also arrested (5) journalists, administratively detained, and (11) other journalists were arrested in interrogation centers without charge or trial.
The committee called on all international human rights and humanitarian institutions, led by the International Federation of Journalists, to pressure the occupation authorities to take action to stop the actual unfair sentences against journalists, and to extend their detention several times.
The committee also called for the immediate release of all journalists detained in the occupation prisons, including journalist Bushra al-Tawil, who threatened in a letter to her from her prison that she would go on an open hunger strike during the coming days, in refusal of her administrative detention, if there was no fundamental decision by the occupation to reduce the period The four months.
