Ramallah – 26 October 2011: Israeli occupation authorities today extended the administrative detention of West Bank’s Quds TV program coordinator Nawaf Al-Amer for four months, without any charges against him. 

His wife, Mrs. Nawal Hussein Al-Amer, told MADA that Israeli occupation authorities officially informed her this morning of the administrative detention extension and declined to provide any reasons for his arrest and imprisonment. She added: "We heard the news about the extension of his detention, but we were assured that the news was correct this morning."

Israeli occupation forces arrested Nawaf Al-Amer on 28 June 2011 from his home in Kofor Kalel southeast of Nablus city, West Bank, after raiding his home and searching a floor of the building. Mrs Al-Amer confirmed that occupation forces have additionally prevented their sons, who over 16 years old, from visiting their father since his arrest.

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) strongly condemns the extension of Al-Amer’s administrative detention, which stands in flagrant violation of legal due process under international law. MADA additionally condemns the continued acts of aggression enacted by Israeli forces to disrupt and restrict the work of journalists in the Palestinian territories. MADA demands the immediate intervention of international organizations and bodies to protect Palestinian journalists and lobby on behalf of those held in detention.