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Article: Israel detains Palestinian candidate in East Jerusalem
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 3, 2006
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Israel detains Palestinian candidate in East Jerusalem
RAMALLAH, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Israeli police detained a campaigning
Palestinian candidate in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, Palestinian
sources and witnesses said.
Mustafa Barghouti, head of the independent Palestine list for the
coming Palestinian legislative elections due on Jan. 25, was detained
for not having a permission to enter the Old City, the sources said.
Israeli police also detained an aide to Palestinian parliament
member Hanan Ashrawi at a press conference held by him in East
Jerusalem, witnesses said.
Officers confiscated a sign showing Ashrawi with a slogan "the
third way" and arrested the aide for attempting to interfere ...