On Thursday, 1 Adar-II, Honenu Attorney Sima Kochav assisted administrative detainee Meir Ettinger in filing an urgent petition with the Beersheva District Court, requesting that the Israel Prison Service be ordered to allow him leave for several hours to attend the bris of his first son on Monday, 25 Adar-II. The court scheduled a deliberation on the matter for 10:00 A.M. on Sunday, 24 Adar-II.
Ettinger has been under administrative detention since early August 2015 and has been held in solitary since October 7, 2015. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon signed the order for the administrative detention, which was authorized on September 20, 2015 by the Lod District Court. At the end of the first period of administrative detention, following the recommendation of the Jewish Department of the ISA, Ya’alon signed a new four-month order extending the administrative detention. On February 23, 2016 Central District Court Judge Avraham Tal approved the order.
On the morning of Friday, April 1, Honenu Attorney Sima Kochav stated that, “We filed an urgent petition with the Beersheva District Court to order the Prison Service to allow Ettinger to participate in the brit milah of his first son. There is no need to add any words on the importance of the brit milah to the Jewish People. An administrative detainee also has rights and I sincerely hope that the court will accept the petition and that Ettinger will celebrate the brit milah as it should be celebrated.”
Ettinger is being held in solitary in a separate wing and is permitted to speak by telephone to only some of his closest relatives. On January 18 Ettinger went on a 17-day hunger strike in protest of his remand conditions.
Some 30 family members and friends protested on his behalf in the capital on motzei Shabbos demanding his release for the bris of his son.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Let’s put Yalon in solitary confinement. And thus Tsaddik as the Defense Minister
It is a big lie that the State of “Israel” is Jewish and Democratic. This fascist-Bolshevik state is neither.
Not that I’m a fan of Ettinger’s ideology, but they’re holding him under “administrative arrest” – which BTW in most countries would be illegal. Because after 7 months, if they don’t charge a suspect, they have to release him. The fiction of “administrative arrest” allows the authorities to hold a suspect w/o charging him, allowing them time to “uncover” (or otherwise come up with) incriminating evidence.
Besides, they let underworld figures who are part of organized crime rings to get out for a few hours bor their son’s bris or bar-mitzva. Cannot be that Ettinger is more of a danger than mafia guys. Let him attend his son’s bris!