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Detained Minors At Shin Bet Facility Still Forbidden To Meet With An Attorney


prisonOn the afternoon of Monday 5 Tammuz, Nazareth Magistrate Court Judge Ilanit Imber extended the remand of two minors detained in Migdal HaEmek the previous day by only three days, not eight days as the police had demanded.

The minors are still forbidden to meet with an attorney. Nazareth District Court Judge Avraham Avraham rejected the appeal on the matter filed by Attorney Lior Bar-Zohar, who is representing the minors on behalf of Honenu.

“The [Nazareth Magistrate] Court rejected the police demand to extend by eight days the minors’ remand and ordered an extension until only Thursday,” said Bar-Zohar. “In our opinion this proves that the accusations are baseless. We are certain that in the coming days justice will be served and the minors will be released.”

Concerning the rejection of the appeal on the prohibition to meet with an attorney, Bar-Zohar said that, “The court ‘bought’ the explanations by the Shin Bet, which were given behind closed doors, leaving the minors without legal representation.”

On the morning of Monday 5 Tammuz an additional minor was detained in the case and taken to a Shin Bet facility. He also is forbidden to meet with an attorney. Details of the case and the detainees are under a gag order. The police stated that the case involves an incident of “nationalistic crime”.

Honenu intends to file an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court on the decision to forbid the minors from meeting with an attorney.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)



3 Responses

  1. To an American this sounds outrageous, but one should realize that according to the “minhag ha-makom” in the Middle East, a minor arrested on a political charge is lucky if he gets referred to a burial society rather than merely disappearing from the face of the earth.

  2. fattsso : Most countries treat traitors worse than prisoners of war. Israel regards Arab prisoners as “de facto” prisoners of war and holds them in hopes of exchanging them for Israelis captured by the other side. A Jew who is opposed to the basic tenets of secular zionism is threatening the very essence of the state and it is reasonable that the zionists would treat them as a traitor (while the US has always been soft on traitors, most countries kill them, often very slowly – until recently the UK was into slow dismemberment). What the religious zionists don’t understand is that to the people who run Israel, the religious “fanatics” are just as much an existential threat as the Palestinians, and are one that ismore likely to succeed.

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