NABLUS - This Bank city erupted demonstrations yesterday in protest at the death by torture of an Male prisoner held by's PLO security forces.
Palestinian lawmakers meeting in Bethlehem said Mahmoud Jumayal (26) from torture. About 1,000 Palestinians marched in a demonstration denouncing the PLO, security force believed to be responsible for his death. A Palestinian human rights group said Jnmayal sustained burns on his chest and a fractured skull.
Jnmayal, who once was sought by Israel as an activist in Arafat's Fatah movement, was detained in December when PLO security forces trying to restore law and order rounded up members of a renegade Fatah group.