PA security broke up a press conference at Hebron U. because the student council is affiliated with Hamas:
Eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post dozens of policemen belonging to the Presidential Guard and the Preventive Security Force had attacked the participants, firing into the air and beating students and journalists with clubs. . . .
Among the journalists who were beaten, he added, were Mamoun Wazwaz and Yasri al-Jamal of Reuters, Nasser Shayoukhi of The Associated Press, Hazem Bader of Agence France Press and Imad Amayreh, who works for the local Al-Amal TV station.
We’re seeing a chlll on Arab journalism. Hamas disbanded the Gaza chapter of the Palestinian journalists’ union this week. And a Human Rights Watch press conference in Beirut was recently cancelled due to Hezbollah pressure.
The cold front extends to Egypt.
