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After spending one and a half years under house-arrest….Mohammad Mahmoud turns himself in to serve his sentence
December 15, 2013

The 21-year old Mohammad Abdullah Mahmoud turned himself in on Sunday night to “Ma’bar” police in Al-Ramleh prison to serve his 6-month sentence. Fadi Mahmoud explained that the District court lately sentenced his brother for 6 months of actual imprisonment and a financial fee of 2500 NIS on charges of throwing stones and attacking settlers in Esawyeh, and set the 15th of December as the day he should turn himself in. Mahmoud pointed out that Al-Musta’ribin (undercover) unit arrested his brother Mohammad while he was heading home on the 23rd of August, 2013 and beat him with the butts of their guns and their hands injuring him with bruises and wounds in different parts of his body; he got treated in Hadassah Ein Kerem while being under arrest. He added that the court released his brother after nearly a month on condition of open house arrest and was prevented from practicing his normal life since.