Palestinian aid groups' accounts closed

national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Monday January 03, 2005 16:08 by jon Glackin - Street Seen streetseen04 at hotmail dot com

Two British organisations set up to help the Palestinian people have had their bank accounts abruptly closed without explanation

Two British organisations set up to help the Palestinian people have had their bank accounts abruptly closed without explanation, Neither is proscribed by the government, and both claim that their targeting is political.
The groups, Friends of Al-Aqsa (FoAA) and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, have been asked to find alternative banking arrangements, even though neither appears on watch lists held by the Home Office or the Bank of England. The head of FoAA has also had his personal and business accounts closed.

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