A major human rights nongovernmental organization criticized the Palestinian authorities for violating freedom of expression today.
On May 7, Amnesty International released a statement saying that five Palestinians had been arrested by Palestinian officials in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in March and April. Both territories put a state of emergency in place in March to fight the coronavirus outbreak. The arrested were merely critical of the Palestinian authorities online and their detentions were not warranted, the organization’s deputy head for the Middle East and North Africa said.
