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Arrest · Nablus
Nablus radio host Samer Khuwaira detained again; lawyer expects administrative detention
Israeli soldiers arrested the Radio Hawa presenter at his Nablus home on Nov. 2, less than a year after he was released from his last administrative detention. His lawyer told CPJ he will likely be held without charge.
Israeli forces arrested Samer Khuwaira in the early hours of Monday, Nov. 2, after raiding his home on Asira Street in Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Safa reported, citing local sources.
Khuwaira presents a program on Radio Hawa in Nablus and reports for the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. After the arrest he was taken to the Huwara detention center and then to the Salem detention center, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Nov. 5.
His lawyer told CPJ that Khuwaira will likely face administrative detention without any charges. Under that procedure Israel can hold Palestinians on evidence neither they nor their lawyers see, in orders that can be renewed without charge or trial.
CPJ's records show he was imprisoned from April 10, 2025, to Jan. 7, 2026. CPJ describes that as a nine-month administrative detention, during which, Khuwaira says, he was tortured.
CPJ cited his case in a Nov. 5 statement on a rise in Israeli detentions of journalists, which also covered the arrest by Israeli police of Arab48 podcast host Abed Abu Shehadeh, and repeated its call for the immediate release of all imprisoned Palestinian journalists.
We reiterate our call for the immediate release of all imprisoned Palestinian journalists— Committee to Protect Journalists, Nov. 5, 2026
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