"The security forces arrested professor Abdul-Sattar Qasem, an author and lecturer in the Political Science Department of Al Najah University in Nablus, and reporter Murad Abu Al Baha’, from Betunia, West of
Nablus." Qasem is an independent leftist professor with no ties to any political group. But Human Rights Watch did not notice his arrest because HRW staff is busy monitoring the plight of Israeli collaborators and spies in Palestine. I hope that Middle East Studies Association will protest the Dahlan forces' arrest of Qasem. (thanks Dina)