(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - PA security forces in the West Bank on Sunday arrested journalist Tarek Khamis for criticizing on Facebook the PA's recent arrest of female journalist and blogger Esmat Abdel Khalik. Khalik was arrested last week after she posted derogatory remarks about PA President Mahmoud Abbas on her Facebook page. A third journalist, Youssef al-Shayeb, was also arrested last week for exposing corruption in the Palestinian diplomatic mission in France. Commenting on the clampdown, Palestinian journalist Adel Samara said: "This is a totalitarian regime. What would happen when we fulfill our dream of having our own state? We will all be sitting with al-Shayeb [in prison]."
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