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Report: Palestinian Authority Blocks Critical News Websites | The independent Palestinian news outlet Maan reports that some eight daily news websites were blocked by order of the Palestinian Authority (PA). According to the report, the PA attorney general Ahmad al-Mughni delivered the instructions to block the websites to a Palestinian telecom company over the objections of other PA officials. The news sites often deal in the fractious politics of the ruling Fatah party and many are said to be aligned with a rival of PA president Mahmood Abbas. “It is troubling because they had done a relatively good job at keeping the Internet open until now,” Jillian York, an official with the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Maan.
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