The organizers of the campaign accused the PA security forces of “desecrating” a mosque and arresting the woman for teaching the Koran. They also called on Palestinian and international human rights organizations to pressure the PA to release Bashir.لليوم الـ13 على التوالي يواصل وقائي السلطة في قلقيلية اختطاف المعلمة آلاء بشير من داخل مسجد عثمان بن عفان من قرية جينصافوط قضاء قلقيلية #كلنا_الاء_بشير pic.twitter.com/p1s8DIiioA
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) May 21, 2019
The organizers of the campaign accused the PA security forces of “desecrating” a mosque and arresting the woman for teaching the Koran. They also called on Palestinian and international human rights organizations to pressure the PA to release Bashir.The Arab Organization for Human Rights in the UK warned the PA and its security forces against torturing Bashir in order to force her to make false confessions. It also called for allowing her family members and lawyers to visit her in prison.“The organization holds Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh responsible for the safety of Ala’ Bashir,” the group said in a statement that also demanded her immediate release.Bashir is the second Palestinian woman to be arrested by the PA security forces in the past few months. Late last year, 31-year-old Suha Jbara was arrested and held for two months on suspicion of funding “illegal organizations” and “collaborating with the enemy.” Amnesty International quoted Jbara as saying she had been beaten and threatened with sexual violence by her Palestinian interrogators.“Suha Jbara has described her torture in harrowing detail,” said Saleh Higazi, deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International. “In her testimony she gives an account of ruthless interrogators who have shamelessly flouted Palestine’s obligations to treat prisoners humanely and violated the absolute prohibition under international law of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”عدوان جبان! ماهو سبب الإعتقال؟ تعليم القرآن!!! أين حقوق الإنسان من هذا التعدي والإستقواء أم هو الكيل بمكيالين #كلنا_آلاء_بشير pic.twitter.com/vXtil54ETi
— Nahed Agaba (@NahedAgaba) May 19, 2019