Internal Security Releases MP Jouma and his Guests

6 November 2008

The Internal Security releases MP Ashraf Jouma and 5 of his employees as well as Munzir al-Bardaweel, Fateh Secretary in Rafah.
They were released form the Internal Security headquarters in Rafah after two hours of their arrest.
The rest of Fateh member, who were arrested from the house of MP Jouma, were released at 1:30pm on Thursday, 6 November 2008, after MP Jouma contacted MP Salah al-Bardaweel and Ahmad Yousif, the PM Advisor.
All of the arrested people were released by 10:30pm on the same day.
Some of them were notified to appear at the Internal Security headquarters on Saturday, 8 November 2008, according MP Jouma.
However, Salah al-Uwesi and Khalid Mussa, Fateh Leaders of Rafah governorate, are still in custody.

A large force of the Ministry of Interior's Internal Security broke into the house of MP Jouma at around 1:30pm on Thursday, 6 November 2008.
The force also arrested 50 Fateh members who were inside his house.
According to field investigations, MP Jouma and his guests were having lunch and celebrating the release of most of them from Hamas jails.
MP Jouma refused that his guests would be arrested from his house and insisted to be the first to be arrested.
The force already arrested him.
It is noteworthy that the Internal Security arrested Munzir al-Bardaweel, Fateh Secretary in Rafah, at around 10:00am on the same day.