The Palestinian Authority Is Using a New Cyber-Crimes Law to Crack Down on Dissent
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/12/18/palestinian-authority-cyber-crimes-law-dissent-issa-amro
Surrounded by Israeli settlers, checkpoints, and empty streets closed by the military, human rights activist Issa Amro spent his first day out of jail at home, in campaign mode and planning his next moves to resist Israel’s occupation of his city. Amro’s nonviolent activism with his group, Youth Against Settlements, or YAS, has won him international recognition — he recently traveled to Capitol Hill in Washington and met with members of Congress — and drawn the ire of Israeli security forces. (...)