Award-Winning Palestinian Journalist Mohammed Omer Details Abuse by Israeli Security Officials

by via Democracy Now

Mon, Jul 7, 2008 7:52PM

Monday, July 7, 2008 :We go to Gaza to speak with award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer. The twenty-four-year-old journalist and photographer from Gaza was physically and psychologically abused by Israeli security officials late last month. Omer, who is a correspondent for the Inter Press Service, was on his way back home after receiving the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. [includes rush transcript]

Guest:

Mohammed Omer, Award-winning Palestinian journalist and photographer. He is the Gaza correspondent for the Inter Press Service and was abused by Israeli security officials on his way back to Gaza from London, where he had just received the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.

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