Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Israeli leak suspect held in secret house arrest

Gagging order in case of woman accused of leaking military information to press

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
The Independent

"For the past three months, a 23-year-old Israeli journalist has been under a secret house arrest over charges that she leaked classified information suggesting that the Israel military violated a legal ruling on killings of militants in the West Bank.

An unusual gagging order preventing reporting of the case by the media in Israel will be challenged next month by Channel Ten TV and the newspaper Haaretz....."

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