Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
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Election Update No.21
Date: 24 January 2006
Violations of Electoral Campaigns Regulations
Gunmen Kill a Citizen in Nablus
In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, 24 January 2006, unidentified gunmen opened fire at Ahmad Yousef Abdel Jabbar Hassuna, 36, of Nablus, and killed him.
PCHRs preliminary investigation indicates that, on Monday evening (23 January 2006), a group of gunmen carrying automatic rifles came to the victims house in Rafedeya neighborhood. They asked him to remove from his houses wall a picture of PLC candidate Ghassan El-Shaka; but he refused to comply with their demand. The gunmen left. And at approximately 02:00 on Tuesday, 10 unidentified gunmen came to the house and attempted to remove the picture. Their voices woke up Hassouna, who came out of his house carrying a pistol. The gunmen immediately opened fire at him, hitting him with a bullet in the head. He died instantly.
PCHR condemns this crime, and:
Calls for investigating the crime, and bringing the perpetrators to justice;
Requests from all candidates and their supporters to end all forms of campaigning, and to respect the Elections Law, which limited campaigning to the period 3-23 January 2006.
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