The Police Investigations Department informs an officer that he may be indicted for allegedly breaking the knee of an Arab Israeli activist under arrest.
The Justice Ministry says the charges would include assaulting a detainee, making threats and injuring a detainee.
“Before it is decided to file an indictment the officer has been invited to present, through his [legal] representatives, his claims in a hearing process,” the ministry says in a statement.
The officer has been on compulsory leave since May.
Jafar Farah was one of some 20 protesters arrested during a Gaza solidarity rally that drew allegations of police violence.
Farah, who heads the Mossawa Center rights group, praises the expected indictment and hopes the officer will be punished.
“From the beginning, I believed the version [of events] — that’s the version, that’s what happened, it’s factual,” Hadashot TV news quotes Farah saying.
Arab-Israeli NGO worker Jafar Farah, who alleges a police officer broke his knee after he was arrested. (Screen capture: Twitter)
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