{"id":202034,"date":"2005-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=202034"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:17:22","slug":"auto-insert-202034","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-202034\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty Int’l calls for immediate release of French media worker\/Public statement – Amnesty Int’l. press release\/Non-Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ document"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL<\/strong><\/span>
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\nPublic Statement<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAI Index: MDE 21\/011\/2005 (Public)
\nNews Service No: 225
\n16 August 2005<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\n<\/strong><\/span>Palestinian Authority: Abductions must stop and French media worker Mohammed al-Ouati must be released immediately<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of Mohammad al-Ouati, a sound technician with the French TV France<\/i> 3<\/i>, who was abducted by armed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on 14 August and whose whereabouts remain unknown. <\/p>\n

Mohammed al-Ouati, a French citizen of Algerian origin, was seized by Palestinian gunmen outside his hotel in Gaza City as he was returning to the hotel with three colleagues. He was forced into a car at gunpoint by three gunmen and taken to an unknown location. No Palestinian armed group is known to have claimed responsibility for the abduction so far.<\/p>\n

The gunmen also tried to seize Mohammed al-Ouati’s three colleagues, all French citizens and members of the France <\/i>3 team. They reported that the gunmen were not wearing masks. <\/p>\n

The abduction of Mohammed al-Ouati is the latest in a series of kidnapping by Palestinian armed groups and gunmen in recent months. In the past two months alone at least a dozen people, most of them foreign nationals, have been abducted in the Gaza Strip. They were all released unharmed within hours of being seized. However, Mohammed al-Ouati, has now been held for three days, longer than any of those previously abducted.<\/p>\n

Among those abducted in recent weeks in the Gaza Strip are several Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and other relief workers, both foreign nationals and Palestinians. Such actions violate international law. The abduction of journalists and media workers also constitutes a clear attack on freedom of expression and information, both cornerstones of human rights law.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International calls for Mohammed al-Ouati to be released immediately and to be protected from any harm. The organization calls on all Palestinian armed groups to put a immediate end to the practice of abductions.<\/p>\n

The organization reiterates its call on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to take immediate steps to secure the release of Mohammed al-Ouati, to bring to justice those responsible for his abduction and to take concrete action to prevent the recurrence of such abuses by Palestinian armed groups.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: MDE 21\/011\/2005 (Public) News Service No: 225 16 August 2005  Palestinian Authority: Abductions must stop and French media worker Mohammed al-Ouati must be released immediately Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of Mohammad al-Ouati, a sound technician with the French TV France 3, who was abducted by armed Palestinians […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2541],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,1857,1749],"entity":[2077],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-202034","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-amnesty-international","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-non-governmental-organization","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/202034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/202034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=202034"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=202034"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=202034"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=202034"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=202034"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=202034"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=202034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}