The public prosecution requests to increase the sentences imposed on eight young men from Shu’fat
The Israeli public prosecution submitted an appeal to the prison sentences issued against eight young Jerusalemite men from the neighborhood of Shu’fat and requested to increase their sentences. Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the eight young men were: Sami Jaber (27) sentenced for 11 months and his brother Sufian (24) sentenced for 8 months, Seif Jaber (21) sentenced for 10 months, Subhi Thabteh (22) sentenced for 8 months, Ayman Attalla (27) sentenced for 8 months, Mohammad Omar Idris (21) sentenced for 10 months) Abdelsalam Abdel Nabi and the 23-year old Suhaib Salman. The prisoners’ families explained that they were informed by the lawyers that the public prosecution recently submitted an appeal which came days before the release of some of them (Ayman Attalla, Sufian Jaber and Subhi Thabteh). The appeal also included young men who were already released (Suhaib Salman who was imprisoned for 4 months and is now under house arrest and isolated) and Abdelsalam Abdel Nabi who was detained for several months. The families added that the prosecution is requesting to increase the sentences against their sons under the pretext of receiving minor sentences for throwing stones and participating in illegal protests as well as damaging the light rail’s property after the Martyrdom of the child Mohammad Abu Khdeir. The young men were arrested during the arrest-campaign carried out by the Israeli forces in Shu’fat last July. At the end of last year, the judge sentenced the young men for duration between eight and eleven months in addition to imposing financial fines on them that ranged between 8-10 thousand NIS for each. The families also pointed out that the prosecution scheduled a session for the young men on 22/2/2015 to discuss their cases again based on the “Emergency Law”.
