Hamas authorities in Gaza should halt their summonses, interrogations, arbitrary detentions, and other harassment apparently aimed at intimidating civil society activists into silence, Human Rights Watch said today. Hamas should respect their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, Human Rights Watch said.
On August 14, 2011, Hamas’s Internal Security agency detained a leading youth activist, Mohammed Matar, 24, known as Abu Yazan, and refused to allow his family or a lawyer to see him for 48 hours. Internal Security has summoned Yazan and another activist, Ebaa Rezeq, for questioning on several occasions since they traveled to France in June for social media training.
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