Levin pushing proposal to deprive terror prisoners of immediate access to lawyers

Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel

Justice Minister Yariv Levin seen during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Justice Minister Yariv Levin seen during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel might soon deprive those detained for security-related offenses of a timely meeting with a lawyer, according a wartime proposal that Justice Minister Yariv Levin is raising for cabinet support today.

Levin is asking the cabinet to support legislative changes to custody regulations, so that detainees suspected of committing a war-related security offense can continue to be interrogated.

Israel is believed to have detained hundreds of Hamas terrorists who crossed the border to carry out massacres in Israeli communities.

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