Palestinian Presidential Candidate Arrested

World | January 7, 2005, Friday // 00:00

Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti has been arrested in Jerusalem, it has been reported. He was arrested on his way to Friday prayers at the al Aqsa mosque. Two Israeli security men in civilian clothes put Barghouti, who is the main election challenger to PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas, into a white van. After Barghouti earlier announced his plan to attend Friday prayers at the mosque, an Israeli police spokesman said: "He is not allowed to go to al Aqsa and he knows it.

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