"OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority on Sunday detained professor Richard Falk, the rapporteur of the UN human rights inquiry commission for the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, at Ben Gurion Airport and refused to allow him to pass through to the Palestinian lands.
Palestine's permanent observer mission at the UN in Geneva said in a press release that the IOA refused to allow Prof. Falk to enter through the airport, noting that he was visiting Palestine on an official mission to investigate the human rights conditions and the IOA violations of international and humanitarian laws.
It said that Falk was held at the immigration section in the airport awaiting his deportation on Monday back to Geneva, and noted that Falk is Jewish and carries an American passport.
Falk, 78, has been appointed by the UN human rights council and is commissioned to write reports on the human rights conditions in the Palestinian lands occupied since 1967 to present it at the council's tenth session next March. "
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