Police will compensate a Jewish youth, a right-wing activist with a criminal record in the amount of NIS 6,500, for being held for a night in a police station and was unnecessarily shackled in his arms and legs.

The boy was arrested at the Geulat Zion outpost on suspicion of violating a military order prohibiting entry to a certain area. He was interrogated by the police late at night. At the end of his interrogation, he was not released to his home because of the police’s intention to bring him to the arraignment hearing the next morning and ask the court to stipulate his release to removing him from Yehuda and Shomron.

As a result, the boy remained at a police station under poor conditions. In the morning the boy was brought before a judge, and in the corridors of the courtroom he was shackled with his hands and feet.

In a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, Justice Ofir Yechezkel ruled that NIS 6,500 in damages will be paid by the police. “It is not proper to delay the release of a detainee, in respect of whom the police believe that he should be released under conditions, only because the conditions are determined by a judge,” the judge ruled in the ruling.

The judge also held that members of the public were present in the corridors of the court, and therefore “the court should be considered a public place” and it was necessary to examine the continued restraint of the boy by using less harmful means.

“We must accept the argument that the restraint was not required and that it was appropriate to avoid it, or at least to be satisfied with partial restraint,” the judge ruled.

Attorney Menashe Yado of the Honenu organization, who represented the youth in the lawsuit, stated: “The ruling, by joining a series of complaints and demands that we have filed, is supposed to seep into internal norms of fair policing of young Jews in Yehuda and Shomron.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)