Ismat Abdul-Khaleq

Blog: https://www.facebook.com/Esmat.Abd.ElKhalik

Location: Ramallah, Palestinian Territory

31° 53' 58.686" N, 35° 12' 15.21" E

Status: Released
Arrested between 28 Mar 2012 and 04 Apr 2012

According to the Huffington Post, Palestinian security forces arrested Ismat Abdul-Khaleq, a West Bank university lecturer, 39, a single mother of two, last Wednesday after they found writing on her Facebook page accusing President Mahmoud Abbas of being a traitor and demanding he resign, said lawyer Issam Abdeen of the Palestinian rights group al-Haq. She is also accused of calling Abbas a "traitor" and saying he partied with prostitutes on the graves of slain Palestinians. Abdeen said Abdul-Khaleq denied she wrote those things.

Abdul-Khaleq was release on april 4th after a court ordered her freed on 2000 Jordanian Dinars bail.

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