[AP/Ynet News] Some 3,000 angry Hamas loyalists on Sunday marched at the funeral of Majed Barghouti, 44, a Muslim preacher who died in the custody of Palestinian Authority interrogators on Friday, accusing the PA of killing the man, in a rare show of defiance against Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. Marchers loudly condemned Abbas' intelligence chief, Tawfik Tirawi, whom they blamed for Barghouti's death. Four men who were arrested alongside Barghouti told his family that they were all tied up in painful positions during interrogation. ''Torture has become a phenomenon,'' said Shawan Jabareen, head of the Palestinian human rights group Al Haq, and Palestinian security forces routinely beat Hamas loyalists. Jabareen said his group had documented some 120 cases of mistreatment in detention.
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