Switzerland issues, deporting the American -Palestinian journalist Ali Abunima Freedom of news news

Washington, DC, Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunima He confirmed that the Swiss authorities had launched and deported it after keeping it for three days.

Abunima, the executive director of the electronic uprising publication, suggested in a social media post on Monday that Switzerland detained him because of his call for Palestinian rights.

“My crime”, because he is a journalist who talks about Palestine and against the genocide of Israel, colonial brutality, and those who help and incite it.

Abunima was arrested in Zurich on Saturday before he conveyed a speech in the city, which angered Palestinian rights advocates.

The Swiss embassy in Washington, DC, did not immediately respond to Al -Jazeera’s request for comment.

On Sunday, the Swiss police reported that the entry prohibition and other measures under the country’s immigration law as a reason for the arrest of Abunima, said on Sunday that the Swiss police cited entry and other measures under the country’s immigration law as a reason for the arrest of Abunima.

The Palestinian -Palestinian journalist said that when police officers interrogated him, they accused him of “insulting the Swiss law” without providing specific charges.

He said, “He was cut off from communicating with the outside world, in a 24 -hour dungeon,” adding that he was unable to contact his family. He added that he only returned his phone at the plane gate that he had brought to Istanbul.

Abunima noted that during the period that was transferred to prison, such as a “dangerous criminal”, Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed the World Economic Forum In Davos.

Herzog has sparked controversy over his position on the Israeli war on Gaza, which killed more than 47,000 Palestinians. He previously said that there are no “uncontrollable civilians” in Gaza.

“This ordeal lasted for three days, but the imprisonment taste was more than enough to leave me in a greater awe than the Palestinian heroes who bear the months and years in the prisons of the Apple persecution.”

“More than ever, I know that the debt we condemn is one that we can never pay and all of them should be free and they must remain our focus.”

I am free! I wrote this on the plane and I deploy it after landing in Istanbul. On Monday evening, I was transported to Zurich Airport in the handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a prison car without windows and driving the plane. This is after three days and two … pic.twitter.com/s4bf2eyyq

Ali Abunima (aliabunimah) January 27, 2025

UN experts have criticized the detention of Abunima as an attack on freedom of expression.

Irene Khan, a special relationship for freedom of opinion and expression, described Abunima’s arrest as “horrific news” on Saturday and urged his release.

Francesca Albaniz, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, also called for an investigation of the incident.

“The surrounding climate Freedom of expression In Europe, it has become increasingly toxic, and we must be concerned all. ”Albanz wrote in a post on social media.

The detention of Abunima came amid an increase in the voices supporting the events in the middle of Europe The war on GazaAny United Nations experts compared to genocide.

In April, Germany closed a conference for Palestinian rights advocates and was deprived of entering the British doctor Ghassan Abu SitahWhich worked in Gaza.

Activists also accused the German authorities of contact On the protests Throughout the war.

In October 2024, the British anti-terrorist police stormed the home of the electronic uprising colleague in Abunima Asa Winstani-an accident that the CPJ Protection Committee (CPJ) said is part of “a disturbing pattern of anti-terrorist weapons laws against reporters.”

Months ago, the British authorities, journalist Richard Medhorest, who is loudly criticized for Israeli policies, held a period of 24 hours when he arrived in London.

Medhorest said on Saturday that “terrorism” against him had extended until May.

In Gaza, Israel killed 205 journalists since the beginning of the war in October 2023, according to the local authorities.