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Ex-MK begins jail sentence for smuggling phones to prisoners with ‘pride’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFormer Joint (Arab) List lawmaker Basel Ghattas arrives at Gilboa Prison with “pride” as he begins a two-year sentence for smuggling cellphones to Palestinian prisoners.
Ghattas says he is entering prison with his “head held high” and with “support from my people.”
In April, the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court accepted the plea bargain reached between state prosecutors and Ghattas, who was convicted of exploiting his position to sneak cellphones and notes to convicted Palestinian terrorists.
After accepting the deal, the court handed down a two-year prison term to Ghattas, as well as 18 months’ probation and a NIS 120,000 ($33,000) fine.
— with AP
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