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http://tinyical.com/1L8x
An Israeli military court has sentenced Palestinian
politician and human rights activist Khalida Jarrar
to six months of administrative detention. The ruling on Wednesday came after Jarrar, a
member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was
arrested from her home in a pre-dawn raid at the
beginning of the July by Israeli forces in the
occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. A court hearing on July 17 is expected to affirm
her administrative detention sentence, which is a
form of internment without trial or charge that is
subject to indefinite renewal. Jarrar, 54, was previously imprisoned for 15
months before her release in June 2016. Israel had charged her with offences relating to
her activism and membership of the leftist Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine – which Israel
considers a terrorist organisation – and had
accused her of inciting violence. Prisoner rights group Addameer, of which Jarrar is
the vice-chairperson of the board of directors,
released a statement following her most recent
arrest calling for her release. “The arrest of Khalida Jarrar constitutes an attack
against Palestinian political leaders and Palestinian
civil society as a whole,” the statement said. “It also constitutes one arrest in the context of
continuous arrest campaigns against Palestinians.” In a statement after Jarrar’s arrest on July 2, the
Israeli army said that her arrest was not related to
her position as member of the PLC, but to her
activities within the PFLP. At least 13 Palestinian politicians are currently
imprisoned in Israeli jails. At least nine of them are being held without
charge under administrative detention, according
to the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies.