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Eugene

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Sat Jun 29, 2019, 10:38 AM Jun 2019

Palestinian Authority arrests businessman who attended Bahrain conference: Haaretz

Original report: Palestinian Authority Arrests Hebron Man Who Attended U.S.-led Bahrain Conference (Haaretz)

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JUNE 29, 2019 / 9:45 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Palestinian Authority arrests businessman who attended Bahrain conference: Haaretz

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority has arrested a Palestinian businessman who attended the U.S.-led economic conference in Bahrain this week, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper and Kan public broadcaster reported on Saturday.

The businessman was identified as Salah Abu Miala from the Palestinian city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Kan and Haaretz said he was arrested overnight between Friday and Saturday.

“Salah attended a wedding party for a family member yesterday and then he disappeared. We haven’t seen him since,” the man’s brother, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. He said that police forces had not shown up at Abu Miala’s home.

The Palestinian Authority’s security service did not respond to requests for comment, but Palestinian businessman Ashraf Jabari, who attended the conference in Manama, said by phone: “Salah’s son spoke to me by phone and he told me his father was arrested.”

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