Ayman Ghazi Mustafa al-Aloul (Arabic: أيمن غازى مصطفى العالول) is the
editor-in-chief
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of ''Arab Now Agency'', a
Gaza Strip
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-based newspaper. He lives in
Gaza City
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.
Al-Aloul and another journalist, Ramzi Herzallah, were detained from 3–12 January 2016 by
Hamas
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. He has accused the Gazan government of torturing him in prison, in retaliation for his critical Facebook posts.
[ The ]Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR, ) is a Palestinian human rights organization based in Gaza City. It was founded in 1995 by Raji Sourani, who is its director. It was established by a group of Palestinian lawyers and human rights a ...
condemned their arrests.
In 2014, Al-Aloul started the Rubble Bucket Challenge, a take on the Ice Bucket Challenge
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meant to draw attention to the post-war
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humanitarian situation.
References
1971 births
Living people
21st-century Palestinian journalists
Journalists from Gaza City
Torture in Palestine
Human rights abuses in Palestine
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