Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Locking Up Activists


Israel Uses Vague Law to Make Meeting Another Arab a Crime

By JONATHAN COOK
CounterPunch

"A vague security offence of “contact with a foreign agent” is being used by Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been committed, human rights lawyers alleged this week.

The lawyers said the Shin Bet was exploiting the law to characterise innocent or accidental meetings between members of Israel’s large Arab minority and Arab foreign nationals as criminal activity....."

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