Five arrested in northern city while waving Syrian flags

Shfaram and Tamra residents questioned, released on bail, for illegally demonstrating and blocking traffic

Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel

Five residents of the northern Arab cities of Shfaram and Tamra were arrested overnight while displaying Syrian and PLO flags and blocking a traffic intersection.

According to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the men were engaged in an illegal demonstration, and were arrested after they refused a police request to disperse.

The men, most of whom were in their 40s, were questioned and then released on bail in the morning.

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