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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					21/11/2010 &#8211; 02:19 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">WEST BANK, (PIC)&#8211; The Palestinian  Authority&#8217;s security militias kidnapped 20 Palestinian citizens thought  to be affiliated with Hamas Movement in different West Bank areas,  according to local sources on Sunday.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Among the detainees was a Palestinian  businessman called Basem Thabet who was kidnapped again after his  release for two days. His family says PA intelligence officers demand  him to pay $50,000 for his freedom.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The militias also kidnapped another  businessman called Idris Hajja from Bir Nabala town, northeast of  occupied Jerusalem, after they released him for also two days. 500,000  shekels were taken from him when he was detained the first time last  May.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For their part, the PA military courts  issued in absentia imprisonment sentences against Palestinian prisoners  in Israeli jails. The detainees are Shaker Dar Saleem, Hussein Al-Ajrab,  Ra&#8217;ed Hamed and Abdul Basset Ma&#8217;tan and all of them were sentenced to  three years in jail.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">One Palestinian named Mohamed Abdulrahman  was reportedly detained on Saturday in Qalqiliya city five days after  his release from Israeli jails on a charge of his affiliation with the  Islamic Jihad Movement.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In another context, the forum of  Palestinian journalists demanded the immediate release of all  journalists and media workers from PA jails in the West Bank, noting  that reporter of Shahab news agency Abdulhalim Abu Arafa is still being  exposed to torture by PA intelligence officers.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a press release, the forum said that  the persistent arrest of journalists in the West Bank reflects a black  future for freedoms, especially with regard to the media, affirming that  there is no one day going by without reporting the detention and  prosecution of a journalist.</p>
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