Israeli police have released the Palestinian Authority’s governor of Jerusalem and a local Fatah official after arresting them and questioning them for hours, their lawyer says.
Police arrested governor Adnan Ghaith and the Fatah general secretary for Jerusalem, Shadi Mutour, at their homes in East Jerusalem.
They were released late last night after being questioned about alleged Palestinian Authority activity in Jerusalem, lawyer Mohammed Mahmud says.
Mahmud alleges the arrests were to prevent the two from accompanying a Saudi football delegation to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound yesterday.
PA activities in Jerusalem are barred by Israel, which captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.
Ghaith has been taken in for police questioning several times in recent months for allegedly carrying out political activities in Jerusalem.
— with AFP
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