After ten months of administrative detention, deprivation of basic rights and without being charged with any crimes, Meir Ettinger on Wednesday 24 Iyar was released from a Beersheva prison.

Ettinger, a right-wing activist and grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D, was first accused of being a threat to national security, plotting attacks against Arabs to incite widespread violence that would lead to anarchy and the overthrow of the Israeli government. Authorities have not announced finding any evidence to back the allegations and after ten months, he has been released.

Persons familiar with the case explain he was deprived of his basic human rights while incarcerated, beaten and kept under unacceptably harsh conditions, and not permitted to attend the bris of his first child.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)