From the Liveblog of
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Court frees Palestinian, but police won’t release him
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJerusalem District Court grants unconditional release to a Palestinian arrested as part of an investigation into far-left activists accused of “turning in” Arabs who sell West Bank land to Jews, but the police decline to release him.
Police tell the lawyer for B’Tselem field worker Nasser Nawaj’ah that he has been transferred to Ofer military prison, where he is remanded in custody until Sunday.
“The Court accepted our position that my client’s arrest was a false arrest, since Israeli courts have no jurisdiction in the matter,” says lawyer Gaby Lasky in a statement on the B’Tselem website. “This is the second instance that has ordered his unconditional release. The police are intent on continuing the pressure on human rights activists under arrest.”
The Times of Israel Community.