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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I hope you all arrived home safely from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Tunis</st1:place></st1:State> and had time to relax.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Unfortunately violations against press freedom, and freedom
of expression and information, against Arab journalists in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> are intensifying.
For more information, please find attached the latest Media Alert regarding
investigations of Arab journalists by the General Security Services (GSS or
Shabak).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>***<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>Urgent Media Alert<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>21
November 2005<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p><span
style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>I’lam & ACRI Send the Shabak a
Request for an Immediate Stop to the Illegal Interrogations of Arab Journalists
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Four journalists have been called in for interrogations by
the General Security Services (GSS or Shabak): Wael Awad, Ahmed Abu Hussein,
Hassan Mawasi, Marwan Athamni. The last of these four was called in some days
ago. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All of the journalists have been asked questions relating to
their professional relationships. One of them, Ahmed Abu Hussein, was asked
about the relationship between arabs48.com, the website where he serves as the
head of the board, and Arab journalists located in other countries in the
region: who these journalists were, if they met together and how, the way in
which arabs48.com solicits articles, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Questions of this nature constitute attacks on freedom of
expression, freedom of the press and the freedom of journalists to do their
work without intimidation. This constitutes a very disturbing, “…
attempt on the part of the Shabak, to be involved in determining the content
that the Arab reader can, or cannot read, reminiscent of totalitarian and
undemocratic regimes who try to reformulate public consciousness through their
control of media and public messages” (From the joint letter from
I’lam and ACRI to the Attorney General of Israel). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(For more information please find attached Media Alert)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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