Comrade Abu Aker’s Administrative Detention Renewed

Comrade Abu Aker’s Administrative Detention Renewed 

Zionist occupation authorities extended the administrative detention of Comrade Nidal Naeem Abu Aker, 49, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in Dheisheh refugee camp of Bethlehem, for a four-month period for the fourth consecutive time.

The military judge in the Zionist military court in Ofer approved the decision issued by the occupation security authorities on the basis of secret evidence, however; the representative of the military prosecution claimed that Abu Aker poses a threat to the security of the region in where he lives besides being one of the leaders of the PFLP.

Abu Aker was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in late June 2014, during a mass arrest campaign against Palestinians in West Bank, and held in administrative detention Abu Aker has previously been arrested several times with a total of twelve years, including nine years in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said that the arrest of Nidal Abu Aker, a member of its General Assembly and presents a program about Palestinian political prisoners in al-Wihda local Radio, came on the basis of a political decision, therefore; it is an illegal decision, just like all administrative detainees. The Syndicate also called for the need to act to his immediate release.

Fifteen detainees of the Palestinian Journalists and Media staff detained by the occupation forces, most of them held under administrative detention, last of whom Palestinian journalist Amin Abu Warda, who was arrested from his house in Balata refugee camp and held in administrative detention about two weeks ago.

The Democratic Rally of Journalists also said that the renewal of the detention order comes in the framework of the continued attacks by occupation on Palestinian journalists in order to discourage them from performing their professional and national duty to expose his crimes and baring his policies, calling on the Arab and International Federations of Journalists to exercise effective pressures on the Israeli occupation government to halt its hand from journalists and the media and to release Palestinian Journalist Abu Aker and all journalist prisoners.